Martin Palmeri’s “Misa a Buenos Aires” is an immensely popular, worldwide sensation, blending traditional Latin mass texts with Tango music, bandoneon, and irresistible rhythms. With the beautifully serene and timely “Psalm for the Living,” by perhaps the greatest Black American composer, William Grant Still. Alicia Esmeralda Barry joins the ROS as mezzo-soprano soloist. Cash donations, […]
Rochester
Timbuctoo to Today
The Rochester Oratorio Society Presents: Timbuctoo to Today November 1, 2024 | 7:30 PM | Hochstein Performance Hall In the 1850s, land grants in the Adirondack community “Timbuctoo,” given by Abolitionist Gerrit Smith to free Blacks, conferred to them the right to vote in New York. Hear the compelling and beautiful choral suite from Glenn […]
The Road Home
Featuring:The Rochester Oratorio Society Chorus, Eric Townell, Artistic DirectorBach Children’s Chorus, Karla Krogstad, DirectorKevin Nitsch, Piano ROS’s glorious, rich sonority is showcased in this program of great choral works by Aaron Copland, R. Nathaniel Dett, Randall Thompson, Jean Ford, and Norman Dello Joio with keyboard accompaniment. Be there for the NY premiere of “We Are […]
Rochester Oratorio Society presents “A City Sings for the Season”
Join ROS for a heart-warming afternoon of holiday music and dance to benefit charity, Sunday, December 3, 4:00 at Rochester’s iconic Stardust Ballroom, 41 Backus Street in the Edgerton R Center. Donations of food, clothing, and personal care items accepted at the door benefit Action for a Better Community. Performing this year will be: Hochstein Youth […]
“Hallelujah from on high”
October 27, 2023 “Hallelujah from on high” 7:30 P.M., Hochstein Performance Hall, 50 Plymouth Avenue North, Rochester 14614 Ziwen Xiang, Tenor Rochester Oratorio Society Chorus and Orchestra Adolphus Hailstork: I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes Mozart: Mass in C Major, K. 317, “Coronation” Beethoven: “Hallelujah,” from Christ on the Mount of Olives Hailstork’s cantata, “I […]
Season Auditions for Rochester Oratorio Society
Join the Rochester Oratorio Society for an exciting season of choral masterworks with orchestra, including Mozart’s “Coronation” Mass, Hailstork’s wonderful cantata “I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes,” and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Participate in our annual concert for charity, sing new works by American women and Indigenous composers, and enjoy […]