Make Music New York - Monday June 21, 5:45pm
Thomas Tallis’ tour de force of Renaissance choral polyphony, the amazingly intricate 40-part a cappella motet “Spem in Alium”, will be performed by members of The Dessoff Choirs and friends under the baton of Michel Galante as part of Make Music New York’s free concerts on Monday June 21, 5:45pm at the R.C. Church of St. Andrew in lower Manhattan, 20 Cardinal Hayes Place, and repeated next door at 6:15pm under the arches of the Municipal Building at 1 Centre Street (by Chambers Street). Come hear this rarely performed masterpiece of devotional choral music by one of Britain’s greatest composers, sung here in the varied acoustical settings of church and outdoor colonnade. Each rendition will last approximately 10 minutes.
See the listing for MMNY, and a mention of Dessoff, in The New York Times (6/18).
For info on all participating musicians, go to Make Music New York's website.
Saturday, May 8, 2010, 7:30pm
The ROOTS of BACH & BEYOND
Patrick Dupré Quigley, guest conductor
The Dessoff Choirs
Led by one of the hottest young conductors on the Miami choral scene, this program looks back to the rich musical tradition from which Johann Sebastian Bach emerged, offering rarely performed works by Mendelssohn, Schütz, Kuhnau, Frescobaldi, and others, as well as famous motets — Singet dem Herrn and Jesu, Meine Freude — by the master himself.
St. George’s Church
E.16th St.at Rutherford Place, east of Third Ave
Manhattan
Sunday, March 28, 2010 3:00 pm
BEETHOVEN’S NINTH
Iván Fischer, conductor
Lisa Milne, soprano
Jorma Silvasti, tenor
Kristinn Sigmundsson, bass
The Dessoff Symphonic Choir
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Symphony No. 6 in F major (“Pastoral”)
Symphony No. 9 in D minor
The finale of Lincoln Center’s “Beethoven Then and Now: The Complete Symphonies” series, a five-day Beethoven extravaganza, featuring Iván Fischer leading the Orchestra of Enlightment on period instruments and the masterful Budapest Festival Orchestra translating these works for today. This fascinating project offers never-before-heard side-by-side accounts of how these beloved symphonies may have sounded in the composer’s time as well as presenting them to the contemporary audience.
Avery Fisher Hall
Lincoln Center
Manhattan
Tickets available at Lincoln Center box office.