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  • Bach St. John Passion

    Friday, 30 March 2012 at 7:30 PM

    Prime and Preferred seats are assigned in the center and on front sides.  Standard, student/senior tickets are open seating (first come first served) at the back, sides and balcony. 

    To strip human nature until its divine attributes are made clear, to inform ordinary activities with spiritual fervor, to give wings of eternity to that which is most ephemeral; to make divine things human and human things divine; such is Bach, the greatest and purest moment in music of all time.
    - Pablo Casals   

    As we enter the season of Passiontide, John Scott leads the Saint Thomas Choir and the period instrument orchestra, Concert Royal, in a performance of Bach’s dramatic setting of the Passion according to Saint John.Please join us to hear for yourself what James R. Oestreich of the New York Times described as “a marvel of true, pliant, rich tone and crisp and flexible rhythms” in the Gothic splendor of Saint Thomas Church.

    Performer(s):

    • The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys
    • Concert Royal
    • Rufus Müller, Evangelist
    • Douglas Williams, Christus
    • Mischa Bouvier, Pilate
    • Sherezade Panthaki, soprano
    • Ryland Angel, countertenor
    • Lawrence Jones, tenor
    • John Scott, conductor

    Dates, Times & Tickets:

    3/30/2012 at 7:30 PM - 10:30 PM

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  • Musical Meditation: Organ Recital

    Monday, 2 April from 6:30-7:30 PM

    SEI GEGRŰSSET, JESU GŰTIG, BWV 768– J. S. Bach
    ELEVEN CHORALE PRELUDES, OP. 122– J. Brahms

    No tickets or reservations required.
    Donation requested

    Conceptually rooted in the chorale fantasies of Johann Sebastian Bach’s predecessors, the chorale partita is a set of variations that presents a hymn tune in several different forms and was likely utilized liturgically as interludes between verses of the chorales themselves.  Bach composed four such sets of variations; the set on the Passiontide chorale Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütig is the largest and most carefully conceived. The work exists in several versions, and scholars believe it was written before 1710 at different points during Bach’s tenure in Arnstadt and Weimar.The large scale of the work, consisting of the chorale theme and eleven variations, and the great extent to which Bach employed his imaginative and complex variation techniques are a testament to the high regard Bach held for this particular chorale.

    Johannes Brahms completed his Eleven Chorale Preludes for organ in 1896 near the end of his life.  They were his very last compositions and published posthumously in 1902.  Based on nine separate Lutheran chorales (several of which are for Passiontide or contain death as a subtext), the work is a profound final musical statement by Brahms whose life was ending due to cancer.  The Eleven Chorales Preludes pay tribute to J.S. Bach who mastered the tradition of setting Luther’s chorales, making the pairing of Bach’s Sei gegrüsset and Brahms’s own settings a fitting musical offering for Holy Week.

    Performer(s):

    • Frederick Teardo, organ

    Dates, Times & Tickets:

    4/2/2012 at 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

  • Membra Jesu Nostri - D. Buxtehude

    Tuesday, 3 April from 6:30-7:30 PM

    No tickets or reservations required.

    Donation requested 

    Dietrich Buxtehude was one of the greatest composers of his generation, and an important influence on Johann Sebastian Bach.  Composed in 1680, Membra Jesu nostri (The limbs of our Jesus) is a remarkable cycle of seven cantatas each addressing a different part of Christ’s crucified body: feet, knees, hands, side, chest, heart, and head.  The text, Salve mundi salutare, also known as the Rhythmica oratio, was written by Medieval poet Arnulf of Louvain.
     
    Membra Jesu nostri, considered to be the first Lutheran oratorio, represents the peak of 17th century northern German vocal music.  Come and listen to this Holy Week meditation offered by some of New York’s finest chamber musicians.

    Performer(s):

    • Jolle Greenleaf and Molly Quinn, sopranos
    • Geoffrey Williams, countertenor
    • Steven Caldicott Wilson, tenor
    • Craig Phillips, bass
    • The Sinfonia Players
    • Vita Wallace, violin
    • Dongmyung Ahn, violin
    • Rachel Evans, viola
    • Jessica Troy, viola
    • Christine Gummere, cello
    • Kevin Kwan and Hank Heijink, continuo
    • John Scott, conductor

    Dates, Times & Tickets:

    4/3/2012 at 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM

  • BachFest - St. Thomas in Leipzig

    Friday, 11 May 2012 at 7:30 PM

    Prime and Preferred seats are assigned in the center section.  Standard & student/senior tickets are open seating (first come first served) at the back.
    Libera nos, salva nos - J. Sheppard (c.1515 – 1558)
    Great Lord of Lords - O. Gibbon(1583-1625)
    Laudibus in sanctis - W. Byrd (1540-1623)
    Gott hat uns nicht gesetzt zum Zorn
    J. Kuhnau (1660 – 1722)
    Organ solo: Fantasia super Komm, heiliger Geist J.S.Bach BWV651 (1685 – 1750)
    Motet: Der Geist hilftunser Schwachheit auf
    J.S Bach BWV 226
    Organ solo: Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier
    J.S.Bach BWV 633
    Alles Fleisch ist wie Gras     - J.A. Hiller (1728-1804) INTERVAL
    Jubilate in C     - B. Britten (1913-1976)
    Come Holy Ghost - Jonathan Harvey (b. 1939)
    A New Song - James MacMillan (b. 1959)
    Organ solo: TBA
    Motet: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied - J.S. Bach BWV 225 

    The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys has been invited to perform at the BachFest on June 15, 2012 in Leipzig’s famed Thomaskirche (St. Thomas Church), home of Germany’s Thomanerchor which was founded in 1212, and the final resting place of J.S. Bach, who served as its cantor from 1723 until his death in 1750.This evening’s concert program draws on the one that the choir will perform at the BachFest. It features motets by Bach as well as by Johann Kuhnau who preceded Bach as Thomaskirche’s cantor and by Johann Adam Hiller who served in that post from 1789 until 1801.The program also includes works from the 16th century to the present day by noted British composers, Sheppard, Gibbons, Byrd, Britten, Jonathan Harvey and James MacMillan.

    If you would like to join the choir on its Tour to Germany and Denmark from June 11-25, details are available from Amanda Slattery at: (914) 245-8825 or amanda@tvlemporium.com. The itinerary planned to date includes the Frauenkirche in Dresden, the Stiftskirche in Stuttgart, the Thomaskirche in Leipzig and Denmark’s Copenhagen Cathedral. We hope you will consider joining us on this most exciting adventure.
     

    Performer(s):

    • The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys
    • Frederick Teardo, organ
    • John Scott, director

    Dates, Times & Tickets:

    5/11/2012 at 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM

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  • Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir

    Friday, 18 May 2012 at 7:30 PM
    No tickets required – donation requested

    The Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir consists of about 80 boys and 30 professional male choristers. Founded in 1924, the choir has been resident at the Copenhagen Cathedral since 1959 and performs on state occasions and during royal visits abroad. The boys also sing at High Mass and Vespers in the Cathedral.Since Ebbe Munk became director of the choir in 1991 they have given concerts at major concert halls, cathedrals and festivals around the world. Le Figaro has placed the choir alongside the Vienna Boys Choir and King's College, Cambridge as one of the finest in Europe.
    The program combines music from the great European heritage of sacred music from the 16th to the 20th centuries, including works by Palestrina, Monteverdi, Bruckner, Liszt and Rachmaninoff, with ballads and folk songs from the rich Scandinavian tradition of vocal music.

    Performer(s):

    • Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir
    • Ebbe Munk, director

    Dates, Times & Tickets:

    5/18/2012 at 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM