Join local singers and music enthusiasts for Harmony in the Community, a warm and welcoming evening celebrating the joy of choral singing. The event brings together community choirs, student performers, and independent vocalists for an evening filled with familiar melodies, seasonal arrangements, and contemporary choral pieces. The program will open with a selection of traditional […]
6th International Children’s & Youth Choir Festival «StimmenKlangRaum» in Weimar/Germany, April 1-4, 2027
Invitation to the 6th International Children’s & Youth Choir Festival «StimmenKlangRaum» in Weimar/Germany, April 1-4, 2027 We’d like to welcome your choir to the 6th International Children’s & Youth Choir Festival «StimmenKlangRaum» in Weimar/Germany, April 1-4, 2027.Every second or third year we invite children and youth singers to our little town of Weimar in the […]
Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary
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 […]
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 […]