The St. Charles Singers’ season finale concerts April 20-21, 2024, will mark the start of the internationally recognized chamber choir’s 40th anniversary celebration with a program featuring songs about nature, especially flowers, and romantic love. “We’ll be presenting a heartfelt musical bouquet to our audiences,” says Jeffrey Hunt, the choir’s founder and artistic director. As […]
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Evanston’s Bach Week Festival to Conclude Farewell Season with Mass in B Minor
Evanston’s Bach Week Festival will conclude its 50th anniversary and final season with a performance of J. S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor, BWV 232, at 4 p.m. on Sunday, May 5, at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 939 Hinman Avenue, Evanston, 50 years to the day that the festival launched on May 5, 1974. Richard […]
The New York Virtuoso Singers Presents 10 World Premieres Concert on May 19 at Manhattan’s Church of St. Luke in the Field
The New York Virtuoso Singers, Harold Rosenbaum, Conductor and Artistic Director, will present 10 World Premieres by BMI Young Composer Award Recipients on Sunday, May 19 @ 4:00 PM at St. Luke in the Field Church, 487 Hudson Street in Manhattan. The program will include 10 new works by 10 rising young composers who have […]
Brattleboro Concert Choir presents “In Paradisum: Music of Gabriel Faure”
The Brattleboro (VT) Concert Choir (https://bmcvt.org/brattleboro-concert-choir/) presents “In Paradisum: Music of Gabriel Faure,” a soul-feeding program featuring Faure’s Requiem, Cantique de Jean Racine, and Tu es Petrus, with orchestra, in the historic and acoustically marvelous Persons Auditorium, on the Marlboro Music Festival campus. Saturday May 4, 7pm Sunday May 5, 4pm Persons Auditorium Potash Hill […]
Brattleboro Camerata presents “Make it a Place of Springs”
The Brattleboro (VT) Camerata (https://bmcvt.org/brattleboro-camerata/) presents “Make it a Place of Springs,” a program of Renaissance-era and Renaissance-inspired music focused on nature and the natural world, with pieces on swans, crickets, deer, seasons, flowers, trees, fleas, bees, and blue birds by Josquin, Palestrina, Tallis, Victoria, Casulana, Lusitano, Stanford, Britten, Shaw, and more! 4pm on Sunday […]
Ancient Greek repertoire in St. Louis/Dunphy premiere
Sunday, April 7, sees an unusual program of music setting ancient Greek writers at Graham Chapel, on the campus of Washington University in St. Louis. The repertoire includes four of the Odes from Sophocles’s ANTIGONE translated by Philip Barnes, the conductor of the performers, the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus. The composers are Ned Rorem, Sasha […]