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Complimentary subscription to 2007-08 season

One ticket to each of 4 concerts, plus two guest passes which may be used for any concert, plus 2 CDs!

The Big Oh! Saturday, November 10, 2007
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational (Harvard Square)
A let-‘er-rip romp through the sexier strains of music from 999 to today. This is a seductively silly, positively PG-13 program that explores the earthier mechanics of ‘friction to heat’ conjugal counterpoint, tests the tortured romanticism of Wagnerian love- death, and takes a humorous look at love “from both sides, now.”

(Un)Lucky in Love Friday, February 8, 2008
Veronique Ballroom, Longwood Towers (Brookline)
Come share an empathizing laugh with fellow fools for love at Boston Secession’s annual Alternative Valentine celebration

Handel on the Strand Saturday, March 15, 2008
First Church in Cambridge, Congregational (Harvard Square)
In the Baroque period, J.S. Bach beetled away in Germany as the introverted, provincial genius while George Frideric Handel took London by storm, becoming the era’s extroverted, cosmopolitan superstar. This concert traces the musical inheritance of Handel’s heirs—from the 18th century to today.

Plus An Important World Premiere
TESTIMONY OF WITNESSES
(Exact time, date, and venue to be announced)
This new oratorio will be performed in its entirety for the first time during the 2008 Yom HaShoah Remembrance Weekend. Testimony of Witnesses is a concert-length work written by Boston Secession’s composer-in-residence Ruth Lomon, and is based on the poetry of Holocaust victims and survivors.

Compact Discs:

Afterlife: German Choral Meditations on Mortality
20 tracks: works of Bach, Brams, Distler, Lomon
At the centerpiece of the program is Hugo Distler's haunting yet redemptive Totentanz (Dance of Death), a 14-movement work that gives human voice to the dying process.

Surprised by Beauty: Minimalism in Choral Music
works by Duckworth, Bryars, Part, and Lomon
Significant choral masterworks: William Duckworth’s Southern Harmony [1981], a choral work based on 19th century shape-note hymns, Arvo Pärt’s The Beatitudes [1990] and Gavin Bryars’ And so ended Kant’s traveling in this world [1997]