This June, Boston's Longwood Symphony Orchestra, led by Jonathan McPhee, will play three concerts in and around London: at St. Bartholomew Hospital’s Great Hall on June 23, Fairfield Halls in Croydon on June 26, and The Anvil in Basingstoke on June 27. The Longwood of course comprises medical professionals from Boston's health care industry, and all concerts will benefit the UK's Marie Curie Cancer Center. Longwood members will also perform chamber music in London-area hospitals and hospices. Members of the orchestra also will participate in medical symposia with British doctors, focusing on advances in cancer treatment. All this, of course, costs money. So the Longwood will play a fundraiser on May 31 - this Saturday - at 8 p.m. at Perry and Marty Granoff Musical Center at Tufts University, with a special guest, London-based violinist David Juritz.
This concert, at the new Granoff Musical Center at Tufts University, features music from the upcoming London concerts by American and British composers including David Diamond’s “Rounds for Strings”; Ralph Vaughan Williams’ “The Lark Ascending” and Heitor Villa-Lobos’ “Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5” featuring Juritz; Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring”; and Dr. Daniela Krause, flutist and Chief Resident in Clinical Pathology at Massachusetts General Hospital, will play “Carmen Fantasy” by Georges Bizet.
Tickets are $50 at longwoodsymphony.org or (617) 667-1527.
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