our 2024 Season: Through the looking glass

The Mysterious Barricades

August 23, 2024 — Nantucket Atheneum Great Hall — Nantucket, Massachusetts — 6:30PM

Our annual free community concert at the Nantucket Atheneum will feature highlights from the season’s repertoire including works by Mahler and Hindemith with Nantucket soprano Greta Feeney. Next to this, we pair several works of the late baroque era by François Couperin and C.P.E. Bach with Thomas Adès’ satirical and naïve Sonata da caccia in homage to Couperin. 

 Dreaming of Michelangelo

August 24, 2024 — St. Paul’s Episcopal Church — Nantucket, Massachusetts — 6:30PM

Featuring music written 500 years apart, the Rossini Club presents an eclectic array of startling works, echoing each other respectively both in their prescience and their sumptuous complexity. Works of the early and late Renaissance by Johannes Ockeghem and Girolamo Frescobaldi performed by Nantucket artists Nick Davies and Isaiah Williams are contrasted through a convex mirror in Judith Shatin’s Ockeghem Variations and György Ligeti’s wildly imaginative Ten Pieces for woodwind quintet.

$30 admission

…Is That All? NFFRA Benefit Concert

August 26, 2024 — St. Paul’s Episcopal Church — Nantucket, Massachusetts — 6:30PM

Music of Eastern Europe, particularly music of Hungary, has long inspired composers from Haydn to Brahms and beyond to stretch and adapt their musical language to the idiosyncrasies of this region. Two of the most important composers of the 20th century, Béla Bartók and György Ligeti, were Hungarian, the former reinventing the definition of folk music, and the latter taking us to worlds hereto unimagined. Brahms’ famous Hungarian Dances also make an appearance in this diverse program paying homage to a rich musical tradition.

$30 admission

Dreamland’s A Winter Journey

August 29, 2024 — Nantucket Dreamland — Nantucket, Massachusetts — 6:30PM

September 1, 2024 —- Nantucket Dreamland — Nantucket, Massachusetts — 2:00PM

In an exciting new collaboration with the Nantucket Dreamland, the Rossini Club is revealing its first staged performance of Schubert’s late masterpiece, the song cycle Winterreise, or Winter’s Journey, featuring Benjamin Boskoff, tenor. In a new orchestration of the original version for piano and voice by oboist Normand Forget, this reimagining of Schubert’s work is both orchestral and intimate in its originality. Greta Feeney will be debuting as director of this special project, setting the eponymous journey on Nantucket in the 1800s. 

$30 admission