29 Sep 2008 15:51
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Mark your calendar as Dessoff turns 87 with a year of choral music as varied as the seasons.
* We kick off in November, with Dessoff backing Ray Davies in a four-city East Coast tour featuring choral versions of The Kinks’ greatest hits.
* Ring in the new year on December 31st at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, as we join George Mathew and the Ubuntu-Shruti Orchestra, performing Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time in the annual New Year’s Eve Concert for Peace that Leonard Bernstein founded over a quarter century ago.
* Attend the events of our new Midwinter Festival centered on a cornerstone of Western choral music, J.S. Bach’s glorious Mass in B Minor. Building up to the Mass, the Refracted Bach festival includes a lecture by renowned Bach scholar George Stauffer; pianists Steven Ryan and Catherine Venable in recital at Weill Concert Hall; a Sing-In of the Bach Cantatas reflected in the Mass; and Stile Antico, a concert of choral and instrumental works that influenced Bach and that Bach inspired.
* Join us as we conclude in May with Lux Aeterna, a celebration of modern & contemporary works for choir and organ.
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