2021-2022 Season
In the spirit of the Terezín cultural community, we gather to experience the life-giving force of music. We also mark 30 years of TMF—and we launch our major new book, Our Will to Live, featuring the first English translations of all 26 concert critiques written in Terezín by the great artist, scholar—and Nazi target—Viktor Ullmann. We present music Ullmann wrote about—by Erwin Schulhoff, whom he greatly admired, plus Hans Krása and more. Underscoring our theme, violinist Nathan Meltzer performs on the legendary "Ames, Totenberg" Stradivarius, a long-silenced instrument whose voice will fill our hall.
Music of consolation, healing, and peace, including works by LGBTQ+ composers. offered in memory of those lost to pandemics, past and present, and in honor of the front-line workers who care for us all.
Voices reach out across generations in a newly commissioned work by award winning composer Andrea Clearfield. A mother writes to her transgender son on his 5th birthday to affirm who he always was. A survivor of conversion therapy writes to the memory of their own younger self, fighting to survive their mother’s desperate attempt to save them from whom they are. We further explore the intimate power of the human voice and spirit through poems on music by Walter de la Mare, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Emily Dickinson, and a contemporary Norwegian composer’s settings of a 16th century Spanish mystic. Also featuring works by Ronald Perera and Ola Gjeilo.
Coro Allegro performed the world premiere of Many Mansions by Dr. Diane White-Clayton, with the Boston Landmarks Orchestra, Christopher Wilkins, Music Director. Coro Allegro then joined the Boston Landmarks Orchestra's One City Choir, with Coro Allegro Artistic Director David Hodgkins as chorus master, for a joyous performance of Beethoven's 9th Symphony.