Greetings!
The 2015-16 season is off and running! Choral aficionados and New York music lovers will not want to miss the first three choral events of Kent's season, his season-opening concerts with his three groups:
- "Four Quarters of Jerusalem" on Wednesday, October 14, a concert by the Cathedral Choir of St. John the Divine with Rose of the Compass, the ensemble led by Nina Stern, celebrating the simultaneous release of a recording of the concert by the Pro Organo label. The program, to be performed in the Cathedral's Great Choir (configured to allow an audience in the round), features choral settings of Sufi songs, Coptic chant and Renaissance works relating to the Holy Land, as well as joyous dance music of Armenian, Sephardic, and Islamic cultures. Watch video
- A rich a cappella program from Musica Sacra at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Wednesday, October 21, highlighted by two of the most celebrated and challenging choral masterworks, Tallis's 40-part motet Spem in Alium, and Strauss's 20-part Deutsche Motette. For this concert the singers will be positioned around the audience! The program, which also features choral favorites by Alice Parker, Robert Convery, and Randall Thompson, pays tribute to Musica Sacra's own heritage: the popular 1991 RCA Red Seal disc, Songs of the Divine, was recorded in this concert's exact location within the cathedral. The soloists are Christine Price, soprano; Sara Murphy, mezzo-soprano; John Tiranno, tenor; and Joseph Beutel, bass-baritone.
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The Oratorio Society of New York season-opening concert: Juraj Filas's Requiem, Oratio Spei - a 2002 work dedicated to the victims of 9/11 - at Carnegie Hall on Monday, November 2. Kent led the U.S. premiere at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in 2011, and he also conducted the work's debut recording. Noting that this work was "deeply influenced by the Requiem of Verdi," Kent says, " Oratio Spei is a great work for the Oratorio Society to perform after last season's Verdi Requiem, as it reflects the grandeur, scale and drama of that work but through a thoroughly contemporary compositional aesthetic." The concert's soloists are Susanna Phillips, soprano; Matthew Plenk, tenor; and John Moore, baritone. Watch video
Tickets are now available for these events! See the links in the listings below.
Kent has also been playing a series of performances leading up to his annual organ recital at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Wednesday, November 18 - and these include two dates in his home state of Iowa: recitals at Trinity United Methodist Church in Waverly on Saturday, October 24, and at First United Methodist Church in Iowa City on Monday, October 26!
To round out the autumn, Kent will be joining the Israel Philharmonic as organist for their performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 2 led by Zubin Mehta at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, November 5. And Kent is preparing the Manhattan School of Music Chamber Choir for a performance of Tan Dun's 2000 work Water Passion After St. Matthew for soprano and bass-baritone soloists, violin, cello, and percussion staged and conducted by the composer himself in the dramatic setting of The Temple of Dendur at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Saturday, November 14. Tickets to this event are currently sold out, but call in for possible cancellations.
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Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 7:30 PM St. James Chapel CATHEDRAL CHOIR OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE ROSE OF THE COMPASS Nina Stern, director Kent Tritle, conductor "Four Quarters of Jerusalem" Celebrating the simultaneous release of a recording of the concert, made earlier this year, by the Pro Organo label, the program features choral settings of Sufi songs, Coptic chant and Renaissance works relating to the Holy Land, as well as joyous dance music of Armenian, Sephardic, and Islamic cultures.
Wednesday, October 21, 2015, 7:30 PM
Cathedral of St. John the DivineKent Tritle, conductor TALLIS Spem in Alium STRAUSS Deutsche Motette BRUCKNER Os Justi ALICE PARKER An American Kedusha ROBERT CONVERY The Lamb RANDALL THOMPSON Alleluia
KENT TRITLE, organ
PAULUS Tryptich
DURUFL� Prelude and Fugue "sur le nom d'Alain"
FRANCK Cantabile
WIDOR Symphony No. 7 in A Minor, Op. 42, No. 3
 Monday, October 26, 2015
KENT TRITLE, organ
PAULUS Tryptich
DURUFL� Prelude and Fugue "sur le nom d'Alain"
FRANCK Cantabile
WIDOR Symphony No. 7 in A Minor, Op. 42, No. 3
 Monday, November 2, 2015, 8 PM Carnegie Hall Kent Tritle, conductor Susanna Phillips, soprano Matthew Plenk, tenor John Moore, baritone FILAS Requiem "Oratio Spei" (2002)
Thursday, November 5, 2015, 7 PM
ISRAEL PHILARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Zubin Mehta, conductor
MAHLER Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"
Saturday, November 14, 2015, 2 PM & 7:30 PM
Stephen Bryant, baritone
Manhattan School of Music Chamber Choir
Kent Tritle, director
Ronnie Oliver, associate director
 Wednesday, November 18, 2015, 7:30 PM
KENT TRITLE, Organ PAULUS Tryptich DURUFL� Prelude and Fugue "sur le nom d'Alain" FRANCK Cantabile WIDOR Symphony No. 7 in A Minor, Op. 42, No. 3
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