The Saint Louis Chamber Chorus opens its 71st annual season this Sunday, October 4, with a program titled “A Consuming Fire.” A highlight of the repertoire will be the first performance of a new cycle of Sara Teasdale poems commissioned from the Latvian composer, Eriks Esenvalds. Those attending this concert will have the opportunity to […]
Saint Louis
Taneyev regional premiere 117 years after its completion
The choral music of Sergey Taneyev is rarely performed in the USA, but on October 4 the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus will present “Prometheus” in what is surely the regional premiere of a work written in 1909. Its technical challenges and demand for a thick choral texture put this piece beyond the reach of many […]
St. Louis concert ~ Equality: Half The Sky
The Saint Louis Chamber Chorus welcomes to its season finale the distinguished Mexican composer, Maria Granillo, for the world première of her “Ode to Fate” that sets a chorus from Sophocles’ tragedy, ANTIGONE. This is a high point in the choir’s program exploring issues of equity and equality through the music of Marie-Claire Saindon (“The […]
A Garland for The Queen – rarely heard COMPLETE performance
For the first time in St. Louis there will be presented “A Garland for the Queen,” the cycle of modern madrigals written to celebrate the Coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953. The ten collaborations between poets and composers represented a high watermark of choral writing at the time, but their technical challenges have subsequently dissuaded […]
New Dunphy work at St. Louis ‘Justice’ concert
Philadelphia based composer, Melissa Dunphy, will be a focus of attention in St. Louis this weekend. On Sunday, February 15 at 3 pm, two local ensembles will be performing her work in different concerts and at different venues. The Saint Louis Chamber Chorus premieres their latest collaboration with her – “Suite Justice” – at Salem […]
St. Louis Mystery – Christmas program
A Latin chant central to the celebration of the Nativity is “O Magnum Mysterium,” and thus it has received countless musical treatments over the centuries. The Renaissance cradled the most iconic versions, from Venice’s Giovanni Gabrieli to the greatest Spanish composer of the Age, Tomás Luis de Victoria. The latter elaborated his own setting to […]