For Immediate Release
November 7, 2024
PRESS CONTACT
Joanna Boyle, General Manager
Musicians of the Old Post Road
781.466.6694
musicians@oldpostroad.org
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MUSICIANS OF THE OLD POST ROAD presents
Christmas Far & Wide
Saturday, December 14, 2024, 4:00 pm
Trinity Lutheran Church, Worcester, MA
and live-streamed at www.oldpostroad.org
Sunday, December 15, 2024, 4:00 pm
Old South Church, Boston, MA
In-person Audience Tickets $10-$55, kids come free with an adult
Virtual Audience Tickets: $35 individual, $70 family, $10 students
Two-time winner of the Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society, Musicians of the Old Post Road continues its 36th season with Christmas Far & Wide, featuring festive 18th-century yuletide music from across the Western Hemisphere. Performances will be presented on December 14 at 4 pm at Trinity Lutheran Church in Worcester and online, and December 15 at 4 pm at Old South Church in Boston.
Christmas Far & Wide will take audiences on a musical sojourn that features selections from Ireland, England, France, Poland, Italy, Germany, the Czech region, New England, and Mexico. In keeping with the ensemble’s tradition of bringing concertgoers fresh and new programming experiences for the holiday season, regional premieres will be among the featured works, performed alongside beloved music by Handel and Bach.
Acclaimed soloists joining the ensemble are soprano Carley DeFranco, mezzo-soprano Carrie Cheron, and tenor Jonas Budris. Among the colorful and varied works on the program, they will be featured in the international modern-day premiere of Christoph Graupner’s cantata, Siehe, der Herr Kommt (Behold the Lord Comes).
Instrumentalists for these concerts, all of whom will play on period instruments, are flutist Suzanne Stumpf, violinist Sarah Darling, violinist Jesse Irons, violist Marcia Cassidy, cellist Daniel Ryan, and harpsichordist Kelly Savage. Instrumental highlights include an arrangement of a traditional Polish lullaby that inspired Chopin, and what will likely be the regional premiere of Sinfonia in Pastorale by Pietro Antonacci.
Single In-Person Tickets are $55 general admission, $50 seniors, $35 for under 35. Kids 18 and under are free with an adult. Day-Of-Concert Rush Tickets (students and EBT Card holders only) are $10, availability permitting. Virtual single tickets and virtual subscriptions are also available.
For more information, visit www.oldpostroad.org, email musicians@oldpostroad.org, or call 781-466-6694.
These performances are supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, an agency of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ABOUT MUSICIANS OF THE OLD POST ROAD
Musicians of the Old Post Road takes its name from its acclaimed concert series that brings period instrument performances of music of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries to beautiful historic buildings along New England’s fabled Old Post Road, the first thoroughfare to connect Boston and New York City in the late 17th century.
Winner of the 1998 and 2023 Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society, Musicians of the Old Post Road has also received programming awards from Early Music America, Chamber Music America and the US-Mexico Fund for Culture. The ensemble has toured in Germany, Austria, and Mexico, and has appeared at festivals and on concert series in the US, including the Indianapolis Early Music Festival, the Boston Early Music Festival Concert Series, the Castle Hill Festival, the Artists Series at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, and the Connecticut Early Music Festival. The ensemble has held a residency at Dartmouth College and was featured on WCVB television’s “Chronicle” program and 99.5 All Classical radio’s “Live from Fraser” program.
The ensemble’s discography includes seven recordings that have each been praised in the US and abroad. They include: The Virtuoso Double Bass (Titanic, 1994), Trios and Scottish Song Settings of J. N. Hummel (Meridian, 1999), Galant with an Attitude: Music of Juan and José Pla (Meridian, 2000), Quartets of Telemann and Bodinus (Meridian, 2004), Feliz Navidad: Christmas from Spain and New Spain (Meridian, 2008), Roman Handel (Centaur, 2013), and Earthly Baroque (Centaur, 2017). An 8th CD entitled Into the Light, featuring music by Christoph Graupner, is planned for release in 2025.
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Press Contact:
Joanna Boyle, General Manager
Musicians of the Old Post Road
781.466.6694
musicians@oldpostroad.org
