July 2018
Three Deliberate Grays For Freddie (A Memorial For Freddie Gray)
For the Façade of the Gardner Museum, former Artist-in-Residence Steve Locke created Three Deliberate Grays for Freddie (A Memorial for Freddie Gray), which addresses issues of race and violence in America today. Locke painted an abstract portrait of Gray, a 25-year-old Black American man, whose untimely death after being in Baltimore Police custody in 2015 aggravated longstanding racial tensions in the city and sparked street protests, police clashes, and violence. Locke generated three distinct monochromes by averaging the pixels of…
Find out more »September 2018
Rise: Terri Lyne Carrington, featuring Jas Kayser
"IN THE SPIRIT OF RHYTHM" Legendary Boston jazz drummer, composer, singer, and three-time Grammy winner Terri Lyne Carrington borrows from jazz, indie rock, contemporary classical, and R&B to syncopate your perception and tune your heartbeat. PROGRAM Terri Lyne Carrington | Jas Kayser Headliner: Terri Lyne Carrington Opening Act: Jas Kayser Pre-Show Act: L'Duke, formerly known as DJ Leah V Tickets are required and include Museum admission. Adults $27, seniors $24, members $17, students & children 7–17 $15 (children under 7…
Find out more »Weekend Concert Series: Sergey Malov, Violoncello Da Spalla
PROGRAM Johann Sebastian Bach, Cello Suites Nos. 2, 3, and 6 The remarkable violoncello da spalla—literally a cello "played on the shoulder"—has been almost completely forgotten. J.S. Bach loved the instrument and wrote expressly for it—it may, in fact, be the instrument for which he wrote one or more of his cello suites. This Boston debut by Sergey Malov, the world's greatest performer on this extraordinary instrument, will change the way you hear this iconic music. Not to be missed! Tickets…
Find out more »October 2018
Concert Preview Performance: True Pearl, An Opera in Five Tapestries
true pearl (2018) an opera, in five tapestries commissioned by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Music by David Lang Libretto by Sibyl Kempson Performed by Roomful of Teeth and the Callithumpian Consort, Stephen Drury, conductor true pearl is an opera made specifically to be seen and heard in the Tapestry Room of the Gardner Museum. The opera comprises five scenes—one for each tapestry in the Gardner's spectacular 16th century Flemish series based on the life of King Cyrus of Persia—and…
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