The Boston College Symphony Orchestra and University Chorale will give the first US performance of Ralf Yusuf Gawlick's Źródło (The Source). Gawlick serves as Professor of Music at Boston College. The concert program, which also includes two pieces by Henryk Górecki (Symphony no. 3 and Amen), commemorates Pope John Paul II on the twentieth-anniversary-year of his death, and honors his Polish ancestry. The concert features international guest artist Clara Meloni, soprano, conductors Riikka Pietilainen-Caffrey and Anna Wittstruck, and over two hundred Boston College student musicians.
The concert is free and open to the public ($20 donation suggested).
This concert is presented by St. Ignatius as part of their inaugural concert series and co-sponsored by the Boston College Music Department, Office of Student Initiatives, the Institute for the Liberal Arts, and the Church in the 21st Century Center.
Soprano Clara Meloni joins the Music Department in-residence with a masterclass and a concert featuring Italian Art Songs. During this masterclass, Clara will work with senior voice students and members of the University Chorale as they prepare for their upcoming recitals and concerts.
University Chorale will present their tour program, including world premieres by Karoliina Kantelinen and BC senior Jack Doppke.
"Joy to the World": Voices of Imani and Boston College Symphony Orchestra Spring Concert, with Chamber Singers
The Boston College Symphony Orchestra, directed by Anna Wittstruck, and Voices of Imani, directed by Shannon Jacob, bring together symphonic and gospel traditions to mediate themes of travel, promised lands, and the precarities and possibilities of migration. Featuring student winners from the 2024 Concerto-Aria Competition (Jack Doppke, voice and Elijah Onik, piano) and guest appearances by Chamber Singers, directed by Riikka Pietilainen-Caffrey.
"Joy to the World: A Symphonic Celebration."
Boston College Symphony Orchestra "Joy to the World: A Symphonic Celebration Spring Concert"
Pascale Florestal, Grant Evan, and Monan Professor Dawn Meredith Simmons discuss the Front Porch Arts Collective and their current production season, theatre in Boston, and making a career in theatre, including non-performance-related fields.
The Front Porch Arts Collective is a non-profit black theatre company committed to advancing racial equity in Boston through theatre.
Audition for the Theatre Department's Spring productions!
Inverness Unravels
Friday, January 24th between 6:00-10:00pm. Callbacks will be held on Saturday, January 25th between 10:00am-5:00pm, both in the Bonn Studio Theater.
Since the beginning of September, the nine-person Devising class taught by Monan
Professor Dawn M. Simmons has been cooking up a brand-new contemporary adaptation of
William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Now, this new work is ready for the next stage of its life —
and it needs you.
Audition to join six members of the class in finishing the script and performing the final piece in March. This unique opportunity combines a crash course in the Devising process with the chance to originate a role on the Bonn stage.
Please prepare a two-minute contemporary monologue to audition.
As You Like It
Wednesday, January 22nd from 6:00pm to 10:00pm and Thursday, January 23rd from 6:00pm to 10:00pm on the Robsham Mainstage. Callbacks will be held on Saturday, January 25th from 10:00am to 2:00pm on the Robsham Mainstage.
This far out take on the classic comedy is set in late 1960s San Francisco, where the Forest of Arden is refuge to counter-cultural peace-niks. After Orlando falls in love with Rosalind, her autocratic uncle banishes her to the forest, where she disguises herself as a boy. Orlando, fleeing an attempt on his life by his power-hungry brother, finds her in Arden but is fooled by her disguise. Meanwhile, others in the forest find themselves embroiled in unrequited love—including a love triangle between Rosalind-as-Ganymede, the shepherd Silvius, and Phoebe. Accompanied by a live rock band, the characters move between
Shakespeare's heightened language and groovy 60s music as they imagine a less corrupt, less patriarchal,more peaceful world.
If you are interested in auditioning for As You Like It, please sign up for a seven-minute slot on the spreadsheet linked here and fill out this form.
Please prepare:
1-2 minute Shakespearian monologue.
16 bars of any song, provided it is written in English and does not require you to belt.
Accidental Death of an Anarchist is a biting satire based on the true story of Giuseppe Pinelli, a suspected anarchist who "fell" to his death from a Milanese police headquarter in 1969. The play uses farce and physical comedy to examine our relationship with justice, government, and oppressive systems. Designed and directed by Boston College students as the Theatre Department's Spring Workshop Production.
Directed by Tyler Dean '25