Since it was first heard in 1994, Karl Jenkins’ Adiemus has captured the imagination of music lovers worldwide thanks to its unique combination of classical principles with the flavors of world and ethnic music. Adiemus, awarded 17 gold and platinum discs, receives its local premiere with the Rochester Oratorio Society Chorus and Orchestra, the Nazareth […]
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Holiday Warmth and Cheer
Join the Rochester Oratorio Society Symphonic Choir for some of the season’s most celebratory classical favorites by Bach, Lauridsen, Mendelssohn, and Handel (including the Christmas portion of Messiah). Make your impact felt by donating a new coat for a child, accepted by Action for a Better Community.
Passion Music
Passion Music, by UK composer Will Todd, fuses jazz and choral music in a dramatic retelling of the Passion story with a new setting of Greater Love Has No Man, Stabat Mater focusing on the seven last words of Christ, and a setting of Were you there when they crucified my Lord? Gospel soloist Lynnesha […]
A Jubilee of Psalms
Two world-class Rochester composers are featured in “A Jubilee of Psalms.” Nathaniel Dett’s The Chariot Jubilee, for tenor, chorus, and orchestra, blends the traditional Spiritual with thrilling choral writing. The Rochester-born master Adolphus Hailstork’s cantata for the same forces, I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes, written a decade ago, sets Psalm texts in beautifully compelling […]
Mass in Blue
Mass in Blue by Will Todd“Fanfare for a Festival” by Ron Nelson and“Psalm 150” by Jeff Tyzik Featuring Sarah Joyce Cooper, soprano, and the Rochester Oratorio Society Symphonic Chorus and Orchestra The ROS opens its 80th season in celebratory style with brilliant music by Rochester composers and a jazz-inspired mass. Jeff Tyzik’s “Psalm 150” was […]