Hailed as “one of the great amateur choruses of our time (New York Today) for its “full-bodied sound and suppleness (The New York Times),” The Dessoff Choirs celebrates the holidays as part of its 92nd season. This year, it presents a trio of concerts featuring seasonal repertoire and contemporary arrangements of carols, including Handel’s Messiah, the quintessential classical music highpoint of the Christmas season; Bach’s Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, BWV 230, Gregg Smith’s Twelve Days of Christmas; and Robert Parsons’s Ave Maria, to name a few.
WELCOME YULE
When/Where: Saturday, December 10, 2016, at 7:30 p.m., at Saint Peter’s Church, 619 Lexington Avenue (at 54th Street), New York City, Train: E/M to 53rd Street, 4/5/6 to 51st Street
When/Where: Sunday, December 18, 2016, at 4:00 p.m., at Saint John’s Episcopal Church, 139 Saint Johns Place, Brooklyn, Train: B/Q to 7th Avenue, 2/3 to Grand Army Plaza
Tickets: General $25-35. Seniors/Students $15.
Program:
- S. Bach: Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, BWV 230
Robert Parsons: Ave Maria
Morten Lauridsen: O magnum mysterium
Harold Darke: In the bleak midwinter
Herbert Howells: Here is the little door
John Tavener: God is with us
Gregg Smith: Twelve Days of Christmas
George F. Handel: Hallelujah from Messiah
MESSIAH SING
When/Where: Saturday, December 17, 2016, at James Memorial Chapel, Union Theological Seminary, 3041 Broadway (at 121st Street), New York City, Train: 1 to 116th Street/Columbia University
Tickets: General $15. Seniors/Students $10.
Program: George F. Handel: Messiah
Scores will be available at the door or bring your own.
Tickets: All concert tickets may be purchased at dessoff.org or at the door.
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