Continuing its 2022-23 season “Great Music in a Great Space,” The Cathedral of St. John the Divine will give David Briggs’ “Stabat Mater” its world premiere as part of the Cathedral’s “Light of Paradise” concert. Kent Tritle conducts the Cathedral Choir and Orchestra. Briggs’s “Stabat Mater” was a co-commission with St. Luke’s United Methodist Church in Houston, Texas, and features the Cathedral {…}
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine has announced its season for 2022-23. This is its 12th season of “Great Music in a Great Space” led by Kent Tritle. For this article we will focus on vocal performances only. All performances begin at 7:30 pm. The first choral concert of the season is “Music for a Gothic Space.” The program {…}
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City is set to present “Heaven’s Door” on April 5, 2022. The program will feature Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto in D minor; Alissa Firsova’s a cappella “Stabat Mater;” José Maurício Nuñes-Garcia’s “Requiem;” and the New York premiere of the later orchestration for strings and timpani of Francis Poulenc’s “Litanies to the Black Virgin.” The soloists will include {…}
***This article has been updated from the previous version published on Sept. 9, 2021. The new addition is the May 23 concert entitled “Caleidoscópio!” The Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York has announced its 11th season of Great Music in a Great Space. For the purposes of this article, our focus will be solely on vocal performances. {…}
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine will offer up an online showcase for its New Year’s Eve “Concert for Peace” on Thursday, Dec. 31. The performance, which will maintain a tradition that dates almost 40 years when it was founded by Leonard Bernstein, will feature performances by soprano Jamet Pittman, cellist Arthur Fiacco, and organist David Briggs. The Cathedral {…}
(Credit: Simon.Absonditus) The Cathedral of St. John the Divine will present a weekly series of streamed musical concerts, beginning Tuesday, May 26, 2020. The concerts, featuring members of the Cathedral’s music department, will be streamed from the Cathedral’s Facebook page and YouTube channel; the showcase will also be available on the Cathedral’s website. The first concert, “Improvisations from Ipswich,” will feature artist-in-residence David {…}
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine is set to present “Fantasias and Carols: A Cathedral Christmas” on Dec. 14, 2019. The event will feature music by such composers as Giovanni Gabrieli, Vaughan Williams, Benjamin Britten, John Rutter, David Wilcocks, Donald Fraser, and Marcelo Dupré, and George Frideric Handel. The performance will be led by music director Kent Tritle alongside {…}
The Oratorio Society of New York will kick off its four-concert season early next month at Cathedral of St. John the Divine. OSNY is set to present “two touchstone works of 20th century choral repertoire that shine in the cathedral’s resonant acoustic” – Maurice Duruflé’s masterpiece Requiem, and excerpts from Sergei Rachmaninoff’s “Vespers.” Featured performers will include contralto Kirsten Sollek, {…}
Cathedral of St. John the Divine’s 2019-20 season of Great Music in a Great Space will begin later this month with “Music for a Gothic Space.” Kent Tritle will lead the a cappella concert, featuring the acclaimed New York-based ensemble Musica Sacra. The program is set to include Machaut’s “Messe de Nostre Dame,” hauntingly beautiful motets of Josquin des Prez, {…}
Musica Sacra, New York’s longest continuously performing professional chorus under the direction of Kent Tritle, has announced its 2019-20 season. The season will open with the a cappella concert “Music for a Gothic Space” at Cathedral of St. John the Divine. The performance, preceded by a recital by the Newark Boys Chorus, will feature Machaut’s “Messe de Nostre Dame,” the {…}