Metropolitan Chorale Special Events and Fundraisers

Special Events

Prelude Salon Dinners in honor of our performance of A Sea Symphony

Benefit the Metropolitan Chorale and enjoy a fabulous meal with some very interesting people.
A reservation for a Salon Dinner may be purchased for $125 per seat, which includes one concert ticket (value $30) to the performance on March 9th. RSVP (email Jim Mulroy at jimbosong@yahoo.com) no later than February 17th and please indicate 3 preferences from our list (see below) of salon dinner speakers. Be sure to give us your Name, Address, phone and email address. As soon as we receive your payment we will reserve your seat.

	*3/4/2012 at 6:30 in Brookline* *RONNI BAER* is Senior Curator of European Art at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Ronni has worked in curatorial departments at the Frick Collection, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, and the National Gallery of Art. Since coming to Boston’s MFA in 2000 she has been responsible for numerous exhibitions, including El Greco to Velasquez: Art During the Reign of Phillip III, for which she was awarded the Encomienda de la Orden de Isabel la Catolica by King Juan Carlos of Spain. She is currently planning a new exhibition of Rembrandt and Vermeer which will open at the MFA in 2015, and will speak with us about the influence of the sea in the history of Dutch painting.
	*2/25/2012 at 7:00 in Brookline* *ALBERT BRADLEY* was educated by “his parents and a long series of exasperated teachers” at Cornell (BS and MS in Engineering Physics) and MIT (PhD in Ocean Engineering). He then “took refuge” at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution where they “remain steadfast in their refusal to change his title from Principal Engineer to “toymaker.” His research interests include acoustics, ocean sensor systems and he will speak on autonomous research vehicles: “The Ballad of a Deep Sea Robot”!
	2/25/2012 at 7:00 in Brookline JUDITH KOGAN is a harpist who has performed and recorded with the Metropolitan Opera, and is widely recorded. She holds degrees from Harvard, Julliard, and the Royal Academy of Music. She also writes broadly on music and culture, recently the author of Nothing But the Best: The Struggle For Perfection at the Julliard School (Random House). Judith’s husband, Hugh Wolff, is an internationally-known conductor currently Head of Orchestras at the New England Conservatory. Judith will perform selections from Songs of Travel by Ralph Vaughan Williams, accompanied by Matthew Wight (bass Artist-in-Residence with the Metropolitan Chorale) with an introduction by Lisa Graham, Music Director of the Metropolitan Chorale.
	2/24/2012 at 7:00 in Brookline CHARLES COE is a poet (Picnic on the Moon published by Leapfrog Press), jazz vocalist, and writer has collaborated in verse with celebrities including Robert Pinsky and in music recordings with Stan Strickland and Avery Sharpe. Charles writes feature articles for Harvard Magazine, Northeastern Law Review and the Boston Phoenix. He has been awarded the Massachusetts Cultural Council’s Artists Fellowship in Poetry, and currently serves that organization as a Program Officer in their grants programs (and unofficial bard). Charles will read some Walt Whitman poetry and other related lines for us.
	2/24/2012 at 7:00 in Newton ELISA NEW is the Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University and the author of The Regenerate Lyric (1992), TheLine’s Eye (1999), Jacob’sCane (2009), and In This World But Not Yet of It (just completed). She teaches classic American literature and American poetry. A Whitman expert, her topic will be: “Only The Hum of Your Valved Voice: What Singing Is in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.”
	2/24/2012 at 7:00 in Brookline LES KAUFMAN is Professor in the Boston University Marine Program, Senior Marine Scientist with Conservation International, Research Scholar with The New England Aquarium and Associate in Ichthyology at Harvard. Les studies how we can prevent human-caused extinctions in aquatic species and works extensively in the tropics as well as here on the Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary. He has presented as both author and subject on television with both NOVA and the National Geographic Society. Les was awarded the first marine Pew Fellowship award in 1990. He will speak on man’s relationship with, effect on, the sea.