Please note that tickets for this concert will not be available until at least June 15, 2016. Please check this website for updates. As always, our Friends of Music will receive advanced ticketing privileges.
Sir Simon Rattle will conduct The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys and Orchestra of St. Luke’s in a special benefit concert to include Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, The Lark Ascending by Ralph Vaughn Williams and Edward Elgar’s Serenade for Strings on Sunday, September 18. The concert will be the last in a yearlong series of performances that have been offered at St Thomas Church Fifth Avenue in honor of Maestro John Scott who served as Organist and Director of Music for eleven years, and who died unexpectedly in August 2015. Proceeds from this concert will be used to create a Saint Thomas Choir School scholarship to assist choristers in need which will be established in memory of the late John Gavin Scott (1956-2015).
Repertoire
Ralph Vaughn Williams, The Lark Ascending
Edward Elgar, Serenade for Strings in E minor, Op. 20
Gabriel Faure, Requiem in D minor, Op. 48 (full orchestration)
Message from The Reverend Canon Carl F. Turner, Rector
“I am thrilled that the world’s leading orchestral conductor is going to direct our world famous choir in memory of his friend, John Scott. Sir Simon is also delighted to help us welcome our new Director of Music, Daniel Hyde, who will have just arrived from England, where he is currently Master of the Choristers of Magdalen College, Oxford. Thus, in one concert, we honor the memory of a great musician and begin a new chapter in the history of music at Saint Thomas Church Fifth Avenue. Daniel will also be featured on the program playing the great Taylor and Boody baroque organ.”
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