A Far Cry

We are absolutely over the moon to be announcing our spectacular Boston Season Seven. In the 2013-2014 season, we’re pushing the boundaries of programming and collaboration further than we ever have before. We’ll also have a more abundant presence in Boston than we ever have before – more concerts around the city, more educational and [...]

Thursday April 17, 7pm, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Thursday December 5, 7pm, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Friday May 23, 8pm, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall

Saturday May 10, 4pm, St. John’s Church

Friday March 7, 8pm, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall

Saturday February 1, 4pm, St. John’s Church

Saturday January 11, 8pm, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall

Saturday December 7, 4pm, St. John’s Church

Saturday September 21, 4pm, St. John’s Church

Saturday September 7, 8pm, New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall

Our Spring Soiree is coming up: Thursday May 16 6-9pm, at The St. Botolph Club at 199 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. This year’s theme is Night Music from the Streets of Madrid. We’ll have live music from the Criers, drinks, buffet, and our ever-popular silent auction! Tickets are $125, $200 for two, and can be obtained [...]

We are only beginning to process yesterday’s violence in Boston. Our constant prayers are with all who were affected by the attacks. We are left with so many questions and so few answers. There is so much we don’t know. The one thing we do know is that we love our city and its people. [...]

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At this Thursday’s Avant Gardner Concert, we’ll be playing Francesco Geminiani’s “La Folia” on a complete set of carbon fiber instruments, generously loaned to us for the month by Luis and Clark Carbon Fiber Instruments. Imagining our audience might be curious about this idea, we checked in with Jae Young Cosmos Lee, who fathered this [...]

Saturday afternoon’s concert has been moved to Sunday at 6pm, at St. John’s Church in Jamaica Plain. The Gardner Museum concert has been canceled, so this is your ONE CHANCE to see this innovative and moving program!

After a fall of nationwide touring and our first tour to Europe (!), A Far Cry returns to Jordan Hall with “The Long Gaze” – a wide-ranging program that is a veritable hometown LOVE FEST! Tufts University composer John McDonald presents the world premiere of his newly-commissioned work. “Gentle but Uneasy Dance Music.” Benjamin Britten’s [...]

Program notes for this weekend’s concert “Fiddlers” are here. Thanks, Kathryn! Einojuhani Rautavaara (b. 1928) :: Pelimannit (“The Fiddlers”) A work from the student days of Finnish composer, Einojuhani Rautavaara, The Fiddlers is an ode to both the folk music, and also the stories of the musicians—the fiddlers—he found in a book, Album of Tunes, [...]

Kathryn Bacasmot has once again provided us with great program notes. Thursday at the Gardner Museum should be quite an experience! This is your shovel. The music is your earth. Dig in. John Cage (1912-1992) For all the innovation the world of music has experienced since 1952, nothing has come close to the watershed moment [...]