Annual spring concert featuring the St. Paul’s Choir with Orchestra. In celebration of its 200th anniversary, this year we conclude our season with Ludwig van Beethoven’s late masterwork - the epic “Missa Solemnis.”
Join us for the New York premiere of Scott Ordway’s critically acclaimed The End of Rain. A deeply personal response to the California wildfires of the last five years, Ordway’s symphony takes us on a multimedia journey, blending photography and video with choral music, and a text crowdsourced from the people closest to the heart of this environmental maelstrom. With its ultimate message of hope and renewal, it is the vibrant centerpiece of this Earth Month concert which also includes Alberto Grau’s rhythmic, boisterous Kasar mie la gaji (“The Earth is Tired”) and John Luther Adams’s hushed and haunting “Night Peace.”
“Things will grow back”!
Program
John Luther Adams (b. 1953), “Night Peace”
Erin Schwab, Soprano
Alberto Grau (b. 1937), Kasar mie la gaji (“The Earth is Tired”)
Scott Ordway (b. 1984), “The End of Rain”
Sonja Tengblad, Soprano
Sylvia Leith, Mezzo-soprano
Harrison Hintzche, Baritone
Each day for 18 years, Jamie Livingston documented his life by taking a single Polaroid—until his death at age 41. Then his “Photo of the Day” went online, creating an immediate global sensation years before Instagram launched. With music for chorus, orchestra, and soloists by Grammy nominee Luna Pearl Woolf (Fire & Flood) and a non-fiction libretto by acclaimed filmmaker David Van Taylor (Good Ol’ Charles Schulz), this multi-media oratorio explores our era’s strange alchemy of technology, memory, and community.
A PAC NYC commission.
Polaroid photos by Jamie Livingston.
Music by Luna Pearl Woolf
Concept and Libretto by David Van Taylor
Based on Jamie Livingston’s “Photo Of the Day”
Conducted by Kamna Gupta
Directed by Ty Defoe
Co-Produced with Trinity Church Wall Street
Join Downtown Voices and Stephen Sands, conductor, on March 24, at 8pm, in St. Paul's Chapel for Compline by Candlelight, an ancient rite of prayers to end the day.
Ars Musica Chorale proudly presents An Afternoon at the Opera, featuring some of America’s finest operatic soloists. This concert will include opera choruses and arias from across the centuries by composers such as Puccini, Verdi, Gershwin, and Beethoven. Accompaniment will be provided by pianist Diana Hughes and string quartet. Opera and choral lovers alike will find this concert full of drama, laughs, and beautiful singing.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s final composition, Requiem, was finished after his death by his student Franz Xaver Süssmayr. According to his wife, Constanze Mozart, the ailing composer had come to believe he was writing the piece, initially commissioned by a German count, to be played at his own funeral — and indeed some sections were. Requiem was later performed at the funerals and commemorative services of Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, and Frédéric Chopin.
Centuries later in 1960, “scraps of paper” containing Mozart’s unrealized ideas were discovered, prompting new versions of the Requiem.
Join us for Robert Levin's scholarly completion of this celebrated and emotionally stirring choral masterpiece, featuring Downtown Voices with The Choir of Trinity Wall Street.
Downtown Voices with The Choir of Trinity Wall Street featuring Sonya Headlam, soprano; Pamela Terry, alto; Timothy Hodges, tenor; Neil Netherly, bass; NOVUS NY; Stephen Sands, conductor
DCINY celebrates the American tradition of country-style Bluegrass music with an electrifying blend of gospel and folk in Carol Barnett’s The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass, led by DCINY Guest Conductor Tucker Biddlecombe. Along with the Distinguished Concerts Singers International, New York City’s very own Downtown Voices will be featured amongst the choir, with a special solo act including pieces by Rachmaninoff, Schönberg, and Sheehan, directed by Stephen Sands.
Join all of Trinity's vocal ensembles on December 17, at 3pm, in Trinity Church for a holiday extravaganza full of Christmas carols and other festive songs, featuring The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Trinity Youth Chorus, St. Paul’s Chapel Choir, Downtown Voices, NOVUS NY Brass, and the Choirs from the Borough of Manhattan Community College (BMCC). Free.
This annual Ars Musica Chorale tradition features beautiful choral music and seasonal readings, with organ, brass, and percussion accompaniment, to create a spectacular musical experience that is a perfect way to celebrate the holidays. This year’s program will feature music by composers such as Sally Beamish, John Rutter, and Dan Forrest.
Featuring Benjamin Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb and Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms with organ, percussion, and harp accompaniment.
Also presenting exciting new works by Nico Muhly and John Luther Adams, along with Kenneth Lampl’s Jerusalem.
On December 7, at 7pm, Trinity and TENET Vocal Artists present Unconventional Wisdom in St. Paul's Chapel. This concert celebrates music from 17th century Italian nuns and features women from Downtown Voices with Elena Williamson, conductor, and Jolle Greenleaf, artistic director. Ticketed.
On November 11, at 6pm, in Trinity Church, experience the world premiere of Benedict Sheehan’s oratorio, Akathist, an epic meditation on choosing gratitude, in collaboration with Artefact Ensemble. Featuring The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Artefact Ensemble; NOVUS NY; Downtown Voices; Trinity Youth Chorus; and Elaine Kelly, conductor. Free.
On November 10, at 7:30pm, in Trinity Church, experience the world premiere of Benedict Sheehan’s oratorio, Akathist, an epic meditation on choosing gratitude, in collaboration with Artefact Ensemble. Featuring The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Artefact Ensemble; NOVUS NY; Downtown Voices; Trinity Youth Chorus; and Elaine Kelly, conductor. Free.
Ars Musica Chorale presents American Mosaic, a concert of choral music by American composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. The centerpiece of this program is Randall Thompson’s Frostiana, a collection of seven pieces that set the poetry of American poet, Robert Frost. Also featured in this program are choral classics such as Samuel Barber’s Sure on this Shining Night, William Dawson’s Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit, and Richard Smallwood’s Total Praise. In addition, some newer arrangements of folk songs such as Half Acre, Look Up, Look Down, and I Got a Hog and a Pig give new life to the American choral music tradition.
Join Downtown Voices on September 24, at 8pm, in Trinity Church for Compline by Candlelight, an ancient rite of prayers to end the day. Stephen Sands, conductor. Free.
Feautring Arnold Schoenberg’s Friede auf Erden, Op. 13 & Randall Svane’s setting of The Lord’s Prayer (US Premiere).
Free, no reservations required
Selections from jazz and bluegrass masses by Carol Barnett, Bob Chilcott, Mary Lou Williams and others. The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Downtown Voices; Trinity Youth Chorus; NOVUS NY
To watch live, go to Trinity’s homepage at the time of the concert. To watch on-demand, visit our music video portal.
Annual spring concert featuring the St. Paul’s Choir with Orchestra.
Steven Mackey RIOT (World Premiere, New Jersey Symphony Co-Commission)
Fittingly, the New Jersey Symphony has tapped leading New Jersey composer and frequent Symphony collaborator Steven Mackey to celebrate the centennial with a new commission featuring original texts by former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith.
Bruckner Te Deum
The glorious Te Deum was a high point for composer Anton Bruckner, who called this joyful choral work “the pride of my life.”
Steven Mackey RIOT (World Premiere, New Jersey Symphony Co-Commission)
Fittingly, the New Jersey Symphony has tapped leading New Jersey composer and frequent Symphony collaborator Steven Mackey to celebrate the centennial with a new commission featuring original texts by former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith.
Bruckner Te Deum
The glorious Te Deum was a high point for composer Anton Bruckner, who called this joyful choral work “the pride of my life.”
Steven Mackey RIOT (World Premiere, New Jersey Symphony Co-Commission)
Fittingly, the New Jersey Symphony has tapped leading New Jersey composer and frequent Symphony collaborator Steven Mackey to celebrate the centennial with a new commission featuring original texts by former US Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith.
Bruckner Te Deum
The glorious Te Deum was a high point for composer Anton Bruckner, who called this joyful choral work “the pride of my life.”
Featuring Erin Schwab, soprano and Pastor Martin Ritchie on organ/piano.
Globally-renowned Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli will return to The Garden with special guests Matteo and Virginia Bocelli on December 14.
Andrea Bocelli In Concert will feature performances from Bocelli’s uplifting album Believe, a poignant and personal collection of songs celebrating the power of music to soothe the soul, as well as a selection of arias, and his beloved crossover hits, famed love songs, and music in honor of the Holiday Season.
Trinity Church • In-person and online
Free; reservations not required
Popular choruses from Handel’s Messiah will be presented alongside Christmas carols and other holiday favorites in a special concert, featuring all of Trinity’s ensembles.
Trinity Youth Chorus; Downtown Voices; The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; NOVUS NY; Avi Stein, conductor
St. Paul’s Chapel • In-person
Free; reservations not required
A cherished holiday tradition, the service of Lessons and Carols tells the Christmas story through readings and musical illuminations and will be conducted by Stephen Sands, Thomas McCargar, and Melissa Attebury.
Downtown Voices; St. Paul’s Chapel Choir; Trinity Youth Chorus
Erin Schwab will be singing with the St. Paul’s Choir in their annual spring concert featuring Felix Mendelssohn’s thrilling Symphony No. 2 “Lobgesang”, Op. 52. The “song of praise” was originally penned for the 400th anniversary of the invention of the printing press. The music and text are uplifting throughout and speak extensively of coming out of darkness and into light.
Enjoy the stirring sounds of Spring in the strikingly beautiful Church of St. Francis Xavier, featuring the sublime Requiem by Gabriel Fauré, Lili Boulanger’s hypnotic “Vielle priere bouddhique,” one of the great choral works of the early 20th century, and her joyous “Psalm 24,” along with the surprisingly lush harmonies of the “Kyrie” and “Agnus Dei” from David Briggs’s stunning Messe pour Notre-Dame
Erin Schwab will be performing with the choir for the Boulanger and the Briggs, and singing the soprano solo in the Fauré Requiem.
Erin Schwab will be singing along with Trinity Church’s Downtown Voices ensemble, performing masterpiece requiems of solace and beauty by Duruflé and Fauré. Watch online or register to watch for free in person via this link.
Rutgers University Kirkpatrick Choir presents Arthur Honegger’s King David, in the original 1921 orchestration.
Erin Schwab will be singing several solo excerpts;
No. 7 - Psalm: O had I wings like a dove
No. 15 - Song of the Daughters of Israel
No. 22 - The Song of Ephaim
Public $15 // Rutgers Alumni/Employees & Seniors $10 // Students $5
Featuring compositions by modern composers and world premieres of new works by Rutgers faculty and student composers.
Erin Schwab, soprano, will be performing “Handshake: a Scherzo” by Melissa Dunphy, and will reprise the role of Bessie in a duet excerpt from Angelique Mouyis’s opera, “BESSIE: The Blue-Eyed Xhosa.” Listen to the recording from 2020 below:
