Seasonal Concert Series
Holy Trinity Choir 2009-2010
The 2010-11 CONCERT SCHEDULE
Dr. Stephen Hamilton, Artistic Director
Subscriptions: $125.00 for the Season
General Admission Tickets at the Door: $20.00
Senior and Students: $15.00
CANTORI NEW YORK: $25.00
For Lessons & Carols and the Good Friday Liturgy, we respectfully request your free-will offering.
October 14, 2010
Thursday
8:00 PM
Stephen Hamilton, organist.
Our Artistic Director of Music at Holy Trinity opens this anniversary season with a solo concert on the sixty-stop Rieger pipe organ. Included are works of Messiaen, Bruhns, Alain, Coe, Ginastera, Franck and Dupre.
November 4, 2010
Thursday
8:00 PM
Dame Gillian Weir, organist
Lauded the world over, this famed English organist will dazzle with her amazing vitruosity, penetrating interpretations, and insightful musicianship. The program will include works of Peeters, Bach, Bonnet, Alain, and Jongen.
November 6, 2010
Saturday
8:00 PM
Ironic Four/Bassoons: Cantori New York, Mark Shapiro, Director
This acclaimed NYC choral ensemble will present an evening of Renaissance music by French composer Paschal de l'Estocart; madrigals by Paul Hindemith; and, a new work Beyond Good and Evil: Epigrams and Interludes for chorus and Four Bassoons featuring its composer Bradley Balliet and four bassoonist friends.
December 2, 2010
Thursday
8:00 PM
Kenneth Huber, pianist
Celebrating 200 years of Chopin and Schumann. A long time admired favorite artist from past seasons will play beloved works of these two giants of the piano world, including the inimitable B Minor sonata of Chopin and the boisterous and mercurial Faschingsschwank aus Wein of Schumann.
December 5, 2010
Sunday
4:00 PM
Christmas at Notre Dame: Guildsingers, Phillip Cheah, Director
Medieval Christmas music from the Cathedral of Notre Dame in 12th Century France will be sung by this early music ensemble. Highlighted will be the organuum of Masters Leonin and Perotin.
December 19, 2010
Saturday
5:00 PM
Annual Festival of Lessons and Carols
Former and current members of The Holy Trinity Choir, directed by Stephen Hamilton, will be joined by present and former clergy to celebrate 20 years of tradition. This festive reunion service will include such favorites as Britten's Ceremony of Carols, Rutter's Sans Day Carol, and Boyce's Beautiful Star of Bethlehem. A gala Parish/Alumni dinner will follow. (Please phone 212-289-4100, ext. 210 for reservations.)
February 6, 2011
Sunday
4:00 PM
Visitation and Adoration: Guildsingers, Phillip Cheah, Director
Renaissance music for Epiphany from the Burgundian School to the masters of the late Renaissance will be highlighted,including works of Dufay, Binchois, Handl, Guerrero, and Marenzio.
March 5, 2011
Saturday
8:00 PM
Nostalgic/Guitar: Cantori New York, Mark Shapiro, Director
Two works for chorus, baritone and guitar: Night Keeps Its Promise, a new work by Frank Ezra Levy on poetry by Joel Allegretti; and, a Gypsy cycle by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco on Lorca texts, with guitar soloist Christopher Kenniff, will be prominent.
March 11, 2011
Friday
8:00 PM
March 13, 2011
Sunday
4:00PM
Contemporary American Choral Works: The New Amsterdam Singers, Clara Longstreth, Director
This celebrated seventy voice choir with instrumental ensemble presents a world premiere of a commissioned piece by Paul Alan Levi, along with works of Johannes Somary, Thomas Beveridge, Kitty Brazelton, and Morten Lauridsen.
March 18, 2011
Friday
8:00 PM
Laments: Guildsingers - Phillip Cheah, Director
A unique Lenten concert explores the Deploration,, musical settings of poetic laments for a deceased teacher or patron, featuring music of Ockeghem, Josquin, and Gombert (lamenting Binchois, Ockeghem, and Josquin respectively.)
April 22, 2011
Friday
Noon - 3:00 P.M.
The Faure Requiem*
The Holy Trinity Choir and Soloists
Director
Stephen Hamilton conducts this most celebrated and cherished work during the holiest of Liturgies, The Liturgy of Good Friday.
May 7, 2011
Saturday
8:00 PM
Exotic/Marimba The New Amsterdam Singers, Clara Longstreth, Director
A new cycle for chorus and marimba by Jacob Bancks, David Bruce, and Akemi Naito, will be sung in English and Japanese on texts by Whitman, Saigyo Hoshi (1118-1190) and others, with marimba soloist Makoto Nakura. Madrigals by Hindemith round out this program.
May 26, 2011
Thursday
8:00 PM
American Romantic Music: The New Amsterdam Singers - Clara Longstreth, Director
Music by Eric Whitacre, Morten Lauridsen, Dominick Argento, Fenno Heath, Mark Kilstofte, and Abbie Betinis, is featured alongside folk-inspired works. Texts include those of Lorca, Thomas, Rainer Maria Rilke, Joyce, and Arnold.
June 11, 2011
Saturday
8:00 PM
Music for Organ and Orchestra:A Gala Twentieth Anniversary Celebration Concert
An evening of brilliant concertos by Barber, Piston, and Poulenc, conducted by acclaimed guest Peter Bay, Music Director/Conductor of the Austin Symphony Orchestra, will celebrate Hamilton's 20th year as Director of Music at Holy Trinity and the renovation of the Rieger pipe Organ. A milestone not to be missed!