Performance Calendar

One of the jazz world’s most respected and original voices, Maria Schneider brings her accomplished and cohesive ensemble to Sanders Theatre for the local premiere of Data Lords, her most ambitious project to date and a profound statement on the tension between our dystopian digital environment and the natural world. 

Traka, the newest work from Cambridge-based Haitian choreographer Jean Appolon, means "Troubles" in Haitian Creole and explores how dance, community, and culture are pathways to healing. Appolon partners with composer and turntablist Val Jeanty, who provides the rhythmic foundation for this heartfelt and thought-provoking work.

Chucho Valdés’ The Creation takes audiences through the Regla de Ocha story of creation from the Afro-Cuban religious practice Santería. This evening-length suite engages with powerful cultural rituals and explores how Valdés has woven his heritage throughout his extraordinary career. 

Poet Regie Gibson and world-funk-and-more band Atlas Soul once again join forces in a return to the Series for an afternoon of powerful words and music, featuring covers and originals, as well as Gibson’s resonant, dazzling, and thought-provoking wordplay. Saturday, October 15 at Black Market, near Nubian Square Roxbury and Sunday, October 16 at Multicultural Arts Center in East Cambridge.

Poet Regie Gibson and world-funk-and-more band Atlas Soul once again join forces in a return to the Series for an afternoon of powerful words and music, featuring covers and originals, as well as Gibson’s resonant, dazzling, and thought-provoking wordplay. Saturday, October 15 at Black Market, near Nubian Square Roxbury and Sunday, October 16 at Multicultural Arts Center in East Cambridge.

Poet Regie Gibson and world-funk-and-more band Atlas Soul once again join forces in a return to the Series for an afternoon of powerful words and music, featuring covers and originals, as well as Gibson’s resonant, dazzling, and thought-provoking wordplay. Saturday, October 15 at Black Market, near Nubian Square Roxbury and Sunday, October 16 at Multicultural Arts Center in East Cambridge.

Constant innovation and reinvention define the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Now in his 12th season as music & artistic director, Gustavo Dudamel’s vision and creative direction for the organization has led the New York Times to herald the Los Angeles Philharmonic as “the most important orchestra in America—period.”

Joining Dudamel for the local premiere of a newly commissioned work by Mexican composer Gabriela Ortiz is the young and electrifying Spanish violinist María Dueñas in her Boston debut.

Iconic Boston arts advocate, community builder, singer, dancer, and choreographer Verónica Robles returns to Neighborhood Arts with her all-female mariachi band to perform selections that celebrate and remember those who have gone before us and bring together the living and the dead.

Harpist Charles Overton returns to Celebrity Series alongside violinist Lucia Lin for the world premiere of the latest installment of Lin’s "In Tandem" commissioning and performance project that aims to break down color barriers in classical music. November 4 at Harvard-Epworth Church in Harvard Square and November 6 at Union Church in the South End.

Harpist Charles Overton returns to Celebrity Series alongside violinist Lucia Lin for the world premiere of the latest installment of Lin’s "In Tandem" commissioning and performance project that aims to break down color barriers in classical music. November 4 at Harvard-Epworth Church in Harvard Square and November 6 at Union Church in the South End.