Saturday, February 22, 2025
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Saint Thomas Church
Saint Thomas Church Organist and Director of Music Jeremy Filsell brings the 2024-2025 Grand Organ Series to a close with a concert of works by Franz Liszt. He will feature on both the Miller-Scott Organ and Saint Thomas Church’s Steinway D.
Program
Sonata in B minor, S.178
Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Fantasie und Fuge über den Choral
“Ad nos, ad salutarem undam”, S.259
Franz Liszt
Upcoming Concerts
J. S. Bach: B Minor Mass
Thursday, April 10, 2025
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. | Saint Thomas Church
The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys join forces with the UK chamber choir Vasari Singers to perform Johann Sebastian Bach’s unparalleled setting of the Mass ordinary. Despite being completed in 1749, only one year before Bach’s death, the Mass in B minor displays the composer’s writing at its most brilliant, demanding, and varied. Internationally-renowned conductor Jeremy Backhouse leads the choirs, accompanied by period ensemble New York Baroque Incorporated, for this performance of the Mass, one of the most virtuosic major works in the entirety of the choral repertoire.
Miserere: A Choral Meditation
Holy Week Musical Meditations
Monday, April 14, 2025
6:45 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. | Saint Thomas Church
For the Monday of Holy Week, renowned UK chamber choir Vasari Singers present an hour of contemplative a capella works for choir.
J. S. Bach: Cello Suites
Holy Week Musical Meditations
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
6:45 p.m. – 7:45 p.m. | Saint Thomas Church
For the Tuesday of Holy Week, principal cellist of the Handel and Haydn Society, Guy Fishman, presents an hour of Bach’s unaccompanied suites for cello alongside organ interludes played by Saint Thomas Church Associate Organist Nicolas Haigh. This concert is free and open to the public.
An Ode to St. Cecilia
Thursday, May 15, 2025
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. | Saint Thomas Church
The Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys closes the 2024-2025 concert series with an ode to music itself, with works of C.H.H. Parry, Charles Stanford, and Bernard Rose. The centerpiece of this concert features a lesser-known oratorio by Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, setting Alexander Pope’s poem “Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day.”
Friends of Music are concertgoers who share a passion for choral music and a keen appreciation for the long-standing heritage of excellence maintained by the world-renowned Saint Thomas Choir of Men and Boys. To learn more, contact Adam MacDonald, Director of Development, via email or at 646.569.6431.
