It's Dessoff on the ONES!!!
Celebrating our 83rd year, the third under the baton of Music Director James Bagwell, the Dessoff Choirs invites you to hear a rich array of diverse and engaging choral works.
November 1 found us back at Carnegie Hall, performing the music of Prokofiev with one of Europe’s leading conductors and orchestras. December 1 marked our return to the Great Music concert series at St. Bart’s for a program featuring heartwarming music of the season. March 1 and March 2, we explored artful late 19th- to early 20th-century American works of song and word ranging from Billings to Twain. On May 1, our season of firsts literally ends with a bang at Merkin Hall, in a thrilling night of 20th-century selections for chorus and percussion.
...And stay tuned for updates on our exciting spring benefit...
Thursday, November 1, 2007 at 8 PM @ Carnegie Hall
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
Yuri Temirkanov, conductor
Sergei Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky, op. 78
Dessoff returned to Carnegie Hall to join forces with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic and the Russian Chamber Chorus of New York, under the direction of Yuri Temirkanov, in Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky, one of the 20th century’s great film scores. Also on this program of rich nationalistic music are Sviridov’s Small Triptych and Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death, featuring celebrated Russian mezzo-soprano Larissa Diadkova. A pre-concert talk with Simon Morrison, Professor of Music at Princeton University, at 7:00 pm.
Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 8 PM @ St. Bartholomew’s Church
THE HIDDEN ROAD: Seasonal Works by Britten & Finzi
James Bagwell, conductor
Brian Cheney, tenor
The Dessoff Choirs
St. Bartholomew’s Boy & Girl Choristers
We rang in the season with Saint Nicolas, one of Benjamin Britten 's loveliest cantatas. Dessoff was joined by the renowned Boy & Girl Choristers of St. Bart’s for this holiday treasure. Also on the program was Gerald Finzi's little-known Christmas cantata, In Terra Pax. Pre-concert talk at 7:30 pm.
Saturday, March 1, 2008, 8 PM @ NY Society for Ethical Culture
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Sunday, March 2, 2008, 4 PM @ Old 1st Reformed Church (Bklyn)
IN SOUND AND WORD: Exploring 19th to 20th Century American Works
This wide-ranging survey of American choral work moves from the folk traditions of shape-note hymns to the concert music of the 19th and 20th centuries. The program included works by Yankee pioneer William Billings, Charles Ives Psalm 67, and Brooklyn-born Aaron Copland's compelling Lark, as well as readings of period works by the likes of Phillis Wheatley and Mark Twain. We performed in historic settings in Manhattan or Brooklyn for a fascinating sampling of music that captured and helped to shape this young country’s identity.
Thursday, May 1, 2008, 8 PM @ Merkin Hall
I HATE AND I LOVE
Dominick Argento’s graphic I Hate and I Love, based on poems by Catullus; Leonard Bernstein’s inimitable Missa Brevis, adapted from his score for Jean Anouilh’s The Lark; and Luigi Dallapiccola’s anti-fascist Canti de prigionia, which calls for drums, two pianos and harps, all feature the unusual and stirring combination of chorus and percussion. Don’t miss this exciting evening of some of the most intensely passionate choral music of the 20th century.
Tickets: $20 Advance; $25 Door ($15 Student/Senior with proper ID)
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