Steve Kass

November: On Tour with Ray Davies

In November, Dessoff backs Ray Davies in a four-city East Coast tour featuring choral versions of The Kinks’ greatest hits.

Friday 11/18, Montclair  @The Wellmont Theatre
Saturday 11/19, Philadelphia @Temple PAC
Sunday 11/20, New York  @The Beacon Theater
Wednesday 11/23, Boston  @The Wilbur Theater

New Year’s Eve: A Child of Our Time

On December 31, Dessoff will join George Mathew
and the Ubuntu-Shruti Orchestra
at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 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.

Tickets on sale soon.

Dessoff’s Midwinter Festival 2012

This season, The Dessoff Choirs inaugurates its Midwinter Festival, a series of concerts and events that frame choral masterworks in a larger cultural and historical context.

The first year’s theme is Refracted Bach. Come and explore how J.S. Bach absorbed myriad musical styles and how later composers have been inspired by his astonishing legacy.   Tickets and discount ticket packages.

January  21  WHY BACH MATTERS A lecture by George Stauffer
February  3  STILE ANTICO The Dessoff Choirs @ St. Paul the Apostle
February  7  Robin Holloway’s GILDED GOLDBERGS @ Weill Recital Hall
February 11 SING-IN: Cantatas Reflected in the B Minor Mass @ Immanuel Lutheran
March 3        Bach’s B MINOR MASS Dessoff & Arcadia Players @ St. Mary the Virgin

May: Lux Æterna, Music for Choir and Organ

The concert season wraps up at The Church of the Epiphany on May 12 with music for choir and organ. On the program, Benjamin Britten’s festival cantata Rejoice in the Lamb, anthems by Purcell and Howells, and more.

A pairing of great subtlety, richness, and power, this combination of Dessoff voices and the “king of instruments” is sure to surprise and delight. Tickets.