NEW ENGLAND'S EARLY MUSIC CALENDAR

APRIL 2009

This calendar updated March 28, 2009

Your New England event listings always welcomed! Please send new listings, updates and corrections to sheilabb@earthlink.net

These listings are accurate as of the date posted. For final program information or to confirm location and ticket price, please call the telephone number listed with the event.

All events in Massachusetts unless noted.

Wednesday, April 1

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

Thursday, April 2

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

12 noon

Emmanuel Music. Rafael Popper-Keizer, cello: J.S. Bach Suite VI in D major, BWV 811. Lindsey Chapel, Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St, Boston. 617/536-3356 FREE www.emmanuelmusic.org

5 pm

Weekly Sacred Harp Singing (1991 ed, books available for loan). Brown University, Steinert Practice Center main choral room (enter at back handicapped ramp), Hope & Power Sts, Providence RI. kiri_miller@brown.edu

Friday, April 3

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

8 pm

Zefiro Vocal Octet: Hour Marian Antiphons by Guerrero, Byrd, Victoria, Lobo & others. Brickbottom Gallery, 1 Fitchburg St, Somerville. 617/776-3410 $15/10 st, sr

Oriana Consort (Walter Chapin, dir): Miracles of Spring Choral Music for Easter & Passover including Bach Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4, Delalande De profundis; Philips Surgens Jesus Dominus & other later works. First Lutheran Church , 299 Berkeley St, Boston. 617/547-1798 $15, $12.50 advance/12 st, sr; 10 in advance www.theorianaconsort.org

Saturday, April 4

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

9:30 am

Recorders/Early Music MetroWest Playing Meeting: Music for Holy Week Justin Godoy, Daniel Meyers, Héloïse Degrugillier & Sheila Beardslee, coaches; choral program with Heinrich Christensen. Trinity Episcopal Church, 81 Elm St, Concord. 978/264-0584 Choral program $18/REMM members $12; Consort visitors $12 www.recordersearlymusic.org

1 pm

WHRB-FM, Radio 95.3 The Metropolitan Opera (Maurizio Benini cond): Donizetti L'Elisir d'amore. www.whrb.org

3 pm

Patalena Baroque Ensemble (Eileen Cecelia Callahan, soprano Melissa Foster & Sheera Strick, traversi; Na'ama Yacoby, viola da gamba; Alastair Thompson, harpsichord): works of J.S. Bach, Handel & Locatelli. Framingham Friends Meetinghouse. 841 Edmands Rd, Framingham. 617/888-0953 Donations to benefit the Framingham Friends Meeting Kitchen Renovation Fund

Sunday, April 5

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

6-9 am

WHUS 91.7 FM Off The Beaten Track (Dan Grieder, host) www.whus.org

Sunday Baroque (Suzanne Bona, host) is heard on these New England NPR stations : MA WFCR 88.5 Amherst, WGBH, 89.7 Boston, CT WSHU 91.1 Fairfield, 93.3 Northford & 90.3 Stamford www.sundaybaroque.org

10 am

Emmanuel Music (John Harbison, cond): Bach Himmelskönig, sei willkommen, BWV 182. Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St, Boston. 617/536-3356 Offering www.emmanuelmusic.org

1:30 pm

West Gallery Music workshop (Bruce Randall, leader). St. Mary's Church, 258 Concord St, Newton Lower Falls. 978/373-5852 Donation

1:30 pm

Monthly Sacred Harp Singing (1991 ed- books available for loan). First Congregational Church, 165 Main St, Amherst. 413/773-8208 lindasacredharp@yahoo.com bring snacks to share

3 pm

Yale Camerata (Marguerite L. Brooks, dir): Music for Palm Sunday works of Giovanni Spataro (16th c. Italy) & later composers. Woolsey Hall, College & Grove, New Haven CT. 203/432-5062 FREE http://www.yale.edu/ism/events/CamerataPalmSunday.html

4 pm

Monthly East Sandwich Sacred Harp Singing (1991 ed, books available for loan). East Sandwich Friends Meeting House, 6 Quaker Rd, East Sandwich. 401/862-9211 Free-will donation www.newplymouthsacredharp.org

5:30 pm

Exsultemus period vocal ensemble (Owen McIntosh, Evangelist; Cameron Beauchamp, Jesus; Aaron Russo, Pilatus; Eric Rice, cond) Sarah Paysnick, flute; Joyce Alpers, oboe; Karen Burciaga & Tatiana Daubek, violin; Joy Grimes, viola; Kate Bennett Haynes, cello; Bálint Karosi, organ: Telemann Passion according to Saint John. First Lutheran Church, 299 Berkeley St, Boston. 857/998-0219 $25-35/20-30 st, sr www.exsultemus.org

7:30 pm

Belmont Open Sings (Mary Beekman, dir): Handel Israel in Egypt. Payson Park Church, 365 Belmont St, Belmont. 617/484-4696 x16 $5 www.powersmusic.org

8:30 pm

Schola Nocturna (Amelia Leclair, dir): Latin Compline chant from the Salzinnes MS, Hildegard von Bingen, Florentine Laudario; and Giovanni Pergolesi Stabat Mater. Episcopal Parish of the Messiah, 1900 Commonwealth Ave, Newton. 617/527-8505 Donations www.NightPrayer.org

Monday, April 6

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

Tuesday, April 7

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

5:15 pm

Harvard University Music Department Louis C. Elson Lecture. Margaret Bent (All Souls College, University of Oxford): Memento mei Polyphonic Music in some 15th-c Commemorations for the Dead. Paine Hall, Harvard University, Cambridge. 617/495-2791 FREE www.music.fas.harvard.edu/calendar.html

7 pm

Weekly Smith College Sacred Harp Singing (1991 ed, books available for loan). Helen Hills Chapel, Rte 9/Elm St & Round Hill Rd, Northampton. mgowins@smith.edu www.wmshc.org/helenhillsdir.html Bring a snack to share

Wednesday, April 8

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

1 pm

WHRB-FM, Radio 95.3 Piano Transcriptions: Bach organ works transcribed for piano Prelude & Fugue in E-flat "St. Anne," BWV 552 (arr. Busoni/Fischer); Prelude & Fugue in a, BWV 543; (arr. Liszt/Solomon); Nun Komm der Heiden Heiland, (arr. Busoni/Horowitz); Toccata & Fugue in d, BWV 565 (arr. Tausig/ Wild); Chaconne in d from Partita No. 2 for Solo Violin, BWV 1004 (arr. Brahms/Fleischer). www.whrb.org

7 pm

Weekly Smith College Sacred Harp Singing (1991 ed, books available for loan). Helen Hills Chapel, Rte 9/Elm St & Round Hill Rd, Northampton. mgowins@smith.edu www.wmshc.org/helenhillsdir.html Bring a snack to share

7:30 pm

Ars et Amici (Sheila Beardslee, dir): Victoria Lamentations of Jeremiah. Trinity Episcopal Church, 81 Elm St, Concord. 978/369-3715 FREE www.trinityconcord.org

Thursday, April 9

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

5 pm

Weekly Sacred Harp Singing (1991 ed., books available for loan). Brown University, Steinert Practice Center main choral room (enter at back handicapped ramp), Hope & Power Sts, Providence RI. kiri_miller@brown.edu

Friday, April 10

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

12 noon

Emmanuel Music (John Harbison, cond): Heinrich Schütz Matthew Passion. Lindsay Chapel, Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St, Boston. 617/536-3356 Offering www.emmanuelmusic.org

8 pm

Eva Legêne, recorder; Wieland Kuijken, viola da gamba; Corey Jamason, harpsichord: Virtuoso Brilliance in the Baroque -- music by J.S. Bach, Marais, Telemann, Leclair, Abel & Ste-Colombe. Sweeney Concert Hall, Smith College, Northampton. 413/528-5311 $25/15 st virtuosobaroque@hotmail.com

Saturday, April 11

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

8 pm

Eva Legêne, recorder; Wieland Kuijken, viola da gamba; Corey Jamason, harpsichord: Virtuoso Brilliance in the Baroque -- music by J.S. Bach, Marais, Telemann, Leclair, Abel & Ste-Colombe. First Church In Boston, 66 Marlborough St, Boston. 413/528-5311 $25/15 st virtuosobaroque@hotmail.com

Sunday, April 12

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

6-9 am

WHUS 91.7 FM Off The Beaten Track (Dan Grieder, host) www.whus.org

Sunday Baroque (Suzanne Bona, host) is heard on these New England NPR stations : MA WFCR 88.5 Amherst, WGBH, 89.7 Boston, CT WSHU 91.1 Fairfield, 93.3 Northford & 90.3 Stamford www.sundaybaroque.org

10 am

Emmanuel Music (John Harbison, cond): Bach Christ lag in Todes Banden, BWV 4. Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St, Boston. 617/536-3356 Offering www.emmanuelmusic.org

Schola Cantorum (James Busby, dir) & St. Dunstan Consort: Solemn High Mass for the Ressurrection Franz Joseph Haydn Missa in tempori belli (Paukenmesse); Gregor Aichiner Regina caeli. St. Stephen's Church, 114 George St, Providence RI. 401/421-6702 Offering www.sstephens.org

2 pm

Eva Legêne, recorder; Wieland Kuijken, viola da gamba; Corey Jamason, harpsichord: Virtuoso Brilliance in the Baroque -- music by J.S. Bach, Marais, Telemann, Leclair, Abel & Ste-Colombe. First Congregational Church, 4 Main St, Stockbridge. 413/528-5311 $25/15 st virtuosobaroque@hotmail.com

8 pm

WHRB-FM, Radio 95.3 Sunday Night at the Opera. Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists (John Eliot Gardiner, cond): Handel Semele (Erato) plus selections from Eccles & Marais versions of Semele. www.whrb.org

Monday, April 13

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

7:30 pm

Belmont Open Sings (Mary Beekman, dir): Mozart Mass in C Major, "Coronation," K317. Payson Park Church, 365 Belmont St, Belmont. 617/484-4696 x16 $5 www.powersmusic.org

7:45 pm

Shape Note Singing from The Sacred Harp (1991 edition, books available for loan). The Meeting House, Andover Newton Theological School, 210 Herrick Rd, Newton Centre. 781/648-1009 Freewill donation www.norumbegaharmony.org Short teaching session at 7:45 pm

Tuesday, April 14

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

7 pm

Weekly Smith College Sacred Harp Singing (1991 ed, books available for loan). Helen Hills Chapel, Rte 9/Elm St & Round Hill Rd, Northampton. mgowins@smith.edu www.wmshc.org/helenhillsdir.html Bring a snack to share

Wednesday, April 15

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

7 pm

Weekly Smith College Sacred Harp Singing (1991 ed, books available for loan). Helen Hills Chapel, Rte 9/Elm St & Round Hill Rd, Northampton. mgowins@smith.edu www.wmshc.org/helenhillsdir.html Bring a snack to share

Thursday, April 16

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

5 pm

Weekly Sacred Harp Singing (1991 ed., books available for loan). Brown University, Steinert Practice Center main choral room (enter at back handicapped ramp), Hope & Power Sts, Providence RI. kiri_miller@brown.edu

8 pm

Cambridge Society for Early Music. James Nicolson, double virginals; Douglas Kirk, commentator, Exultemus period vocal ensemble: Courtly Encounters Spain & England, 1554. The First Religious Society, 27 School St, Carlisle. 617/489-2062 $30/25 sr/FREE st & children under 18 www.csem.org

Friday, April 17

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

7:30 pm

Renaissonics & Friends (John Tyson, dir); Ken Pierce, dance leader: Renaissance Dance for Everyone. Jewett Hall,First Church Congregational, 11 Garden St (Harvard Sq), Cambridge. 617/661-3353 $8 www.renaissonics.com

8 pm

Cambridge Society for Early Music. James Nicolson, double virginals; Douglas Kirk, commentator, Exultemus period vocal ensemble: Courtly Encounters Spain & England, 1554. Weston Congregational Church, 130 Newton St, Weston. 617/489-2062 $30/25 sr/FREE st & children under 18 www.csem.org

Saturday, April 18

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

10 am

Annual Rhode Island All-Day Sacred Harp Singing (1991 ed books available for loan). Scituate Grange, 706 Hartford Pike (Rte 101) at Gleaner's Chapel Rd, North Scituate RI Free-will donation & edible donations welcome for traditional dinner-on-the-grounds ri-sacredharp.net/allday.html

7:30 pm

Arcadia Players Baroque Orchestra & Chorus (Ian Watson, cond): Handel Israel in Egypt. St. Mary's Catholic Church, 3 Elm St, Northampton. 413/534-8888 $30-40/10 st www.arcadiaplayers.org

8 pm

Cambridge Society for Early Music. James Nicolson, double virginals; Douglas Kirk, commentator, Exultemus period vocal ensemble: Courtly Encounters Spain & England, 1554. The Salem Athenaeum, 337 Essex St, Salem. 617/489-2062 $30/25 sr & Salem Athenaeum members/FREE st & children under 18 www.csem.org

Sunday, April 19

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

6-9 am

WHUS 91.7 FM Off The Beaten Track (Dan Grieder, host) www.whus.org

Sunday Baroque (Suzanne Bona, host) is heard on these New England NPR stations : MA WFCR 88.5 Amherst, WGBH, 89.7 Boston, CT WSHU 91.1 Fairfield, 93.3 Northford & 90.3 Stamford www.sundaybaroque.org

10 am

Emmanuel Music (John Harbison, cond): Bach Jesu meine Freude, BWV 227. Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St, Boston. 617/536-3356 Offering www.emmanuelmusic.org

4 pm

Cambridge Society for Early Music. James Nicolson, double virginals; Douglas Kirk, commentator, Exultemus period vocal ensemble: Courtly Encounters Spain & England, 1554. The Heard House Museum, Ipswich. 617/489-2062 $30/25 sr/FREE st & children under 18 www.csem.org

7 pm

The Lydian String Quartet (Daniel Stepner & Judith Eissenberg, violins; Mary Ruth Ray, viola; Joshua Gordon, cello): Beethoven String Quartets Op18/4, Op 59/2 &Op 135. The Center for Arts in Natick (TCAN), 14 Summer St, Natick. 508/647-0097 $25/20 TCAN members www.natickarts.org.

Monday, April 20

7:30 pm

Cambridge Society for Early Music. James Nicolson, double virginals; Douglas Kirk, commentator, Exultemus period vocal ensemble: Courtly Encounters Spain & England, 1554. Christ Church, Zero Garden St. 617/489-2062 $30/25 sr/FREE st & children under 18 www.csem.org

Tuesday, April 21

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

7 pm

Weekly Smith College Sacred Harp Singing (1991 ed, books available for loan). Helen Hills Chapel, Rte 9/Elm St & Round Hill Rd, Northampton. mgowins@smith.edu www.wmshc.org/helenhillsdir.html Bring a snack to share

Wednesday, April 22

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

8 pm

Brandeis University Early Music Ensemble & Chamber Choir (Sarah Mead, dir): Jewish Musicians at the Christian Court -- Music of Rossi Lupo, Bassano & others. Bethlehem Chapel, Brandeis Univ, 415 South St, Waltham. 781/736-3400 x5 FREE go.brandeis.edu/brandeistickets

Thursday, April 23

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

5 pm

Weekly Sacred Harp Singing (1991 ed., books available for loan). Brown University, Steinert Practice Center main choral room (enter at back handicapped ramp), Hope & Power Sts, Providence RI. kiri_miller@brown.edu

Friday, April 24

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

8 pm

Newport Baroque & Sine Nomine (Paul Cienniwa, dir): Purcell Dido & Aeneas. Emmanuel Church. 42 Dearborn St, Newport RI. info 401/855-3096; tix 401/621-6123 $25/22.50 sr, st, military, WGBH & EMA members/10 youth 6-18 www.newportbaroque.org

Saturday, April 25

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

1:30 pm

Handel & Haydn Society. Haydn in London Symposium (Sir Roger Norrington, artistic advisor). The Fenway Center, Northeastern University, Boston. 617/266-3605 $25/Northeastern Univ students FREE www.handelandhaydn.org

8 pm

Newport Baroque & Sine Nomine (Paul Cienniwa, dir): Purcell Dido & Aeneas. Emmanuel Church. 42 Dearborn St, Newport RI. info 401/855-3096; tix 401/621-6123 $25/22.50 sr, st, military, WGBH & EMA members/10 youth 6-18 www.newportbaroque.org

Sunday, April 26

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

6-9 am

WHUS 91.7 FM Off The Beaten Track (Dan Grieder, host) www.whus.org

Sunday Baroque (Suzanne Bona, host) is heard on these New England NPR stations : MA WFCR 88.5 Amherst, WGBH, 89.7 Boston, CT WSHU 91.1 Fairfield, 93.3 Northford & 90.3 Stamford www.sundaybaroque.org

10 am

Emmanuel Music (John Harbison, cond): Bach Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan, BWV 99. Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St, Boston. 617/536-3356 Offering www.emmanuelmusic.org

3 pm

Monthly Rhode Island Sacred Harp Singing (1991 ed. books available for loan). Beneficent Congregational Church, Weybosset & Chestnut Sts, Providence RI. 401/524-1390 info@ri-sacredharp.net Freewill donation

3:30 pm

Museum Concerts of Providence. Windhover (Heidi Powell & Richard Hsu, baroque violins; Loretta O'Sullivan, baroque cello; Dongsok Shin, harpsichord): The Jewish Baroque & Beyond Music of Salamone Rossi & colleagues Biagio Marini & Dario Castello. Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, Rhode Island School of Design, 20 North Main St, Providence RI. 401/621-6123 $20/18 sr/10 st www.museumconcerts.org Pre-concert lecture at 2:30 pm by Andrew Raftery about prints and drawings of 18th-century Venetian life in the Museum's Minskoff Center.

4 pm

WHRB-FM, Radio 95.3 Paul-André Bempéchat, piano: Schubert Recital Schubert Sonata in c, D958; Sonata in A, D959; Sonata in B-flat, D960 (concert recording, The Memorial Church at Harvard, 2005)

7 pm

Boston Recorder Society Playing Meeting. University Hall 3-100, Lesley University, 1815 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge. 508/881-1124 $15/10 other recorder societies www.bostonrecordersociety.org

8 pm

The Chorus of Emmanuel Music (Michael Beattie, cond): J. S. Bach The six Choral Motets. Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury St, Boston. 617.536-3356 $25-100 Patron/10 st www.emmanuelmusic.org 7 pm Pre-concert talk by John Harbison, Acting Artistic Director

WHRB-FM, Radio 95.3 Sunday Night at the Opera. Prague Chamber Choir & Teatro Comunale di Bologna Orchestra (Lopez-Cobos, cond): Rossini Le Comte Ory; La Scala Chorus & Orchestra (Claudio Abbado, cond): Rossini L'Italiana in Algieri. www.whrb.org

Monday, April 27

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

Tuesday, April 28

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

7 pm

Weekly Smith College Sacred Harp Singing (1991 ed, books available for loan). Helen Hills Chapel, Rte 9/Elm St & Round Hill Rd, Northampton. mgowins@smith.edu www.wmshc.org/helenhillsdir.html Bring a snack to share

Wednesday, April 29

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

Thursday, April 30

Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese: Rivals in Renaissance Venice. Museum of Fine Arts, 465 Huntington Ave, Boston. 617/ 267-9300 FREE with museum admission: $17/15 st, sr/6.50 youth/FREE under 7 www.mfa.org

5 pm

Weekly Sacred Harp Singing (1991 ed., books available for loan). Brown University, Steinert Practice Center main choral room (enter at back handicapped ramp), Hope & Power Sts, Providence RI. kiri_miller@brown.edu

7 pm

Fifth Thursday Shape Note Singing (from multiplebooks - 4 titles available for loan). Laura Timmerman residence off Greenfield Road, Leyden. 413/773-8325 laurat@crocker.com Edible donations welcome for 6PM pot luck supper