Season greetings via your TV, radio, phone and tablet. It’s not ideal but it’s smart, safe and full of cheer. Just as the Boston Ballet has pirouetted from live, in-person performances to broadcasts on local TV stations, key arts institutions and upstarts offer virtual gifts to keep you in good spirits this December.
Slutcracker: The Movie
Somerville’s annual homage to ballet, burlesque, feminism and freakiness has moved online. The modern retelling of Tchaikovsky’s ballet makes its web debut as a cinematic event featuring footage from the 2019 run. Available since Thanksgiving at theslutcracker.com, the show contains all the charm, magic and bawdy humor you’ve come to love from a cast featuring performers of different shapes, sizes, colors, genders, (adult) ages and talents.
The Boston Pops
Symphony Hall’s online outlet, BSONOW, will bring conductor Keith Lockhart and the Pops to the masses on Dec. 10 at noon. You can expect classics such as “Sleigh Ride,” a brass-and-rhythm-section Stan Kenton arrangement of “Good King Wenceslas,” the Tanglewood Festival Chorus joining virtually for “Home for the Holidays” and more. You can pick up a BSONOW subscription for additional Holiday Pops and Symphony programing at bso.org.
MFA’s Hanukkah Community Celebration
The Museum of Fine Arts presents its seventh annual Hanukkah event. This year it’s … virtual! Stop by mfa.org on Dec. 9 at 6 p.m. for music and dance performances, a conversation with artists and Judaica curators and more.
Black Nativity: 50 Years of Triumph and Transition
Boston’s beloved adaptation of Langston Hughes’ “Black Nativity” skips a year in favor of a new online documentary that traces the production’s history. Paired with a virtual gala and auction, the doc will look at the life of arts educator Elma Lewis, founder of Elma Lewis School of Fine Arts and the National Center of Afro-American Artists, and John Andrew Ross, who acted as music director of “Black Nativity.” Presented Dec. 12, details at artsemerson.org.
A Mexican Christmas: Songs and Stories
Mariachi singer and local cultural icon Verónica Robles channels Mexico and its month of feasting, celebrations, devotion and performances. Live from her home, Robles plans to deliver some extra warmth to your hearth for free on Dec. 17. Details at celebrityseries.org.
The Christmas Revels
The bad news: For the first time in half a century, the annual Christmas Revels performance won’t take place live at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre. The good: Yo-Yo Ma will be part of the event’s virtual 50th anniversary celebration. The show must go on, so writer and director Patrick Swanson has created a story in which the theater’s statues of James Otis and Josiah Quincy come to life to recall their favorite Revels memories. The new performances will be paired with Ma’s special appearance and “live” music, dance and cheer from the Revels’ legendary archives. For details and passes for Dec. 18-31 event, go to ChristmasRevels2020.org.
Handel’s Messiah for Our Time
In partnership with WGBH, the Handel and Haydn Society brings its 167th year of old George Frideric’s masterwork to a host of outlets. Meticulous and tireless planning went into making this broadcast safe and sonically rich. The program premieres on GBH 2 on Dec. 20 at 7 p.m. and then streams via YouTube, Facebook, wgbh.com, classicalWCRB.org, and handelandhaydn.org.
The Link LonkDecember 05, 2020 at 05:06PM
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