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 […]
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William Baker Festival Singers in Kansas City Performs Vaughan Williams, Bernstein & More
The William Baker Festival Singers, a 50-voice semi-professional chorale based in Kansas City, will perform its annual Kenneth Babcock Memorial Masterworks Concert with chamber orchestra and distinguished soloists on Sunday, April 14, 2024 at 3:00 PM, at the historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 1307 Holmes Street in Kansas City, MO. The program will include Vaughan Williams’ […]
Holy Week Concert: Palestrina and Allegri in Lee’s Summit, Missouri
St. Paul A Cappella, a 16-voice semi-professional ensemble under the direction of Dr. William O. Baker, presents a Holy Week Concert of Palestrina: Stabat Mater; Allegri: Miserere Mein; Schulz-Widmar: Good Friday Anthems; and Tavener: Funeral Ikos, along with organ selections by Helmuth Wacha, Samuel Scheidt, and Johann Sebastian Bach. Sunday, March 24, 4:00 PM, St. Paul’s […]
Remarkable venue to host Austro-Hungarian repertoire
The historic Shrine of St. Joseph, located in downtown St. Louis, was enlarged in 1866, just months after Franz Liszt completed his “Missa Choralis.” The Saint Louis Chamber Chorus will ‘marry’ these two masterpieces of architecture and music on February 18, and tickets are now available through its website. Visitors to this website can watch […]
Liszt premiere in St. Louis (MO)
Written in 1865, the year Liszt took holy orders, his “Missa Choralis” requires a spacious acoustic and majestic physical setting to be appreciated to its fullest advantage. On Sunday, February 18, the ideal setting for this stirring expression of faith is to be found in St. Louis (MO), and The Shrine of St. Joseph: Google […]
St. Louis to hear unusual Christmas repertoire
The annual holiday program by the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus, Sunday 17th December at 3 pm, includes both the unusual and the unfamiliar. Two significant pieces of ‘Americana’ are provided by Virgil Thomson (“Scenes from The Holy Infancy”) and Paul Nelson (“In Bethlehem, That Noble Place”). Carols rarely heard in the USA from Australians William […]