BACH FESTIVAL: ST. JOHN PASSION
BWV: Cleveland’s Bach Choir as soloists
BW Motet Choir
BW Festival Orchestra with ACRONYM
Margaret Carpenter Haigh, Evangelist
Tyler Duncan, Jesus
Dirk Garner, Conductor
Sunday, April 14, 2:00 p.m.
Gamble Auditorium, Kulas Musical Arts Building

We close the 92nd Annual Bach Festival with J. S. Bach’s complex and thought-provoking St. John Passion. This intense and impactful masterwork highlights the extremes of human emotion and experience – betrayal, sacrifice and redemption. Featuring Margaret Carpenter Haigh as Evangelist, Tyler Duncan as Jesus, BWV: Cleveland’s Bach Choir soloists, the BW Motet Choir and BW Festival Orchestra with ACRONYM. Dirk Garner, Artistic Director and Conductor

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Domenico Scarlatti: Stabat Mater

The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Madeline Apple Healey
Margaret Carpenter Haigh
Aine Hakamatsuka
Melissa Attebury
Pamela Terry
Clifton Massey
Brian Giebler
Stephen Sands
Edmund Milly
Enrico Lagasca

Avi Stein, organ

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Domenico Scarlatti: Stabat Mater

The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Madeline Apple Healey
Margaret Carpenter Haigh
Aine Hakamatsuka
Melissa Attebury
Pamela Terry
Clifton Massey
Brian Giebler
Stephen Sands
Edmund Milly
Enrico Lagasca

Avi Stein, organ

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Video available HERE

Domenico Scarlatti: Stabat Mater

The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
Madeline Apple Healey
Margaret Carpenter Haigh
Aine Hakamatsuka
Melissa Attebury
Pamela Terry
Clifton Massey
Brian Giebler
Stephen Sands
Edmund Milly
Enrico Lagasca

Avi Stein, organ

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Soloists

Brian Mummert, bass
Margaret Carpenter Haigh, soprano

Saint Thomas Baroque Ensemble
Caroline Giassi, oboe
Jude Ziliak, violin
Rafa Prendergast, violin
Dan McCarthy, viola
Oliver Weston, cello
Nathaniel Chase, cello
Nicolas Haigh, organist

Program

Ich habe genug, BWV 82

Mein Herze schwimmt im Blut, BWV 199

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SOLO BACH CANTATAS

Margaret Carpenter Haigh ~ soprano
Harrison Hintzsche ~ baritone
Caroline Giassi ~ oboe
Jude Ziliak ~ violin
Rafa Prendergast ~ violin
Daniel McCarthy ~ viola
Oliver Weston ~ cello
Nathaniel Chase ~ bass
Thomas Wilson ~ harpsichord

Harrison Hintzsche performs Bach's Cantata 82, Ich habe genug, in collaboration with oboist Caroline Giassi. The program is completed with Bach’s Cantata 199, Mein Herze schwimmt in Blut, with soprano Margaret Carpenter Haigh.

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Washington Bach Consort

Jean-Baptiste Lully:
Thesée, Marche Act 1/9, LWV 51
Notus in Judaea, LWV 77/17
O lachrymae, LWV 26
O dulcissime Domine, LWV 77/9
Thesée, “Entrance of Warriors” Act 1/10
Exaudiat te, Dominus, LWV 77/15

Marc-Antoine Charpentier:
Marche de Triomphe, H. 547
Litanies de la Vierge, H. 83
Motet pour les Trespasses: Miseremini mei, H. 311
Deuxieme Aire de Triomphe pour Trompettes, H. 547
Te Deum, H. 164

J.S. Bach drew from the best of a variety of established European musical styles and combined them in his own unique voice. This concert will highlight influential composers of the French Baroque, featuring sacred grand motets of Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632–1687) and Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704). Charpentier’s magnificent Te Deum will head a list of exquisite works that reflect the magnificence of French courtly and ecclesiastical grandeur.

Margaret Carpenter Haigh, soprano
Margot Rood, soprano
Paulina Francisco, soprano
James Reese, haute-contre
Jacob Perry Jr., tenor
Ian Pomerantz, bass
Ross Tamaccio, bass
Dana Marsh, conductor

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Deuxième Fantaisie, JA 117 - Jehan Alain (1911-1940)

Ave maris stella from Trois Prières - Jean Langlais (1907-1991) 
Ave Maria from Quatres Motets, Op. 9 - Marcel Dupré (1886-1971) 
Tantum ergo from Trois Prières - Langlais 

Adagio in E - Frank Bridge (1879-1941)

Bible Songs, Op. 113 - Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) 
A Song of Freedom 
A Song of Peace 
A Song of Battle 
A Song of Wisdom 

Margaret Carpenter Haigh, soprano
Nicolas Haigh, organ

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Memphis Symphony Orchestra

Robert Moody, conductor
Margaret Carpenter Haigh, soprano
Taylor Raven, alto
Samuel Cook, tenor
Christian Pursell, baritone
Memphis Symphony Chamber Chorus
Dr. Lawrence Edwards, conductor

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Memphis Symphony Orchestra

Robert Moody, conductor
Margaret Carpenter Haigh, soprano
Taylor Raven, alto
Samuel Cook, tenor
Christian Pursell, baritone
Memphis Symphony Chamber Chorus
Dr. Lawrence Edwards, conductor

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Memphis Symphony Orchestra

Robert Moody, conductor
Margaret Carpenter Haigh, soprano
Taylor Raven, alto
Samuel Cook, tenor
Christian Pursell, baritone
Memphis Symphony Chamber Chorus
Dr. Lawrence Edwards, conductor

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Join The Choir of Trinity Wall Street for Handel’s Messiah, a cherished holiday tradition that has captivated New York audiences since it was first presented by the church in 1770. Deemed by The New York Times as "transcendent and awe-inspiring," Trinity’s unique Messiah is performed in a sacred space, on period instruments, with soloists from The Choir of Trinity Wall Street. Featuring The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Ryan Brandau, guest conductor. Ticketed.

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Join The Choir of Trinity Wall Street for Handel’s Messiah, a cherished holiday tradition that has captivated New York audiences since it was first presented by the church in 1770. Deemed by The New York Times as "transcendent and awe-inspiring," Trinity’s unique Messiah is performed in a sacred space, on period instruments, with soloists from The Choir of Trinity Wall Street. Featuring The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Ryan Brandau, guest conductor. Ticketed.

Information and tickets availaable HERE

Exploring a Wealth of Beauty from Italian Convents

TENET is excited to present this all-female program for treble voices in collaboration with Trinity Wall Street and the treble vocalists of Downtown Voices, under guest director Elena Williamson. This program celebrates music from 17th century Italian convents in what may seem an unlikely place for a wellspring of music and creativity. The extraordinary nuns produced a wealth of musical fruit, and TENET will feature works by famed composer Chiara Maria Cozzolani, Sulpitia Cesis, Vittoria Aleotti, and Catarina Assandra.

PROGRAM
Vittoria Aleotti: Io v’amo vita mia
Caterina Assandra: Duo seraphim and O dulcis amor Jesu
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani: Alma redemptoris, Ave Maria, Ave mater dilectissima, O Gloria in altissimis Deo, Gloriosa domina, Quis audivit unquam tale, and Surgamus omnes
Isabella Leonarda: Ad arma, o spiritus rebelles
Leonarda Orsini: Per pianto la mia cara
Lucretia Vizzana: Domine, Dominus noster

PERFORMERS
Jolle Greenleaf, Margaret Carpenter Haigh, and Elena Williamson, soprano
Kate Maroney and Elisa Sutherland, mezzo-soprano
Maria Cleary, harp
Kathryn Cok, keyboards
Lisa Terry, gamba

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Sandbox Percussion and NOVUS NY present a third Renewal concert on December 3, at 4pm, in Trinity Church, featuring Viet Cuong’s Re(new)al and pieces inspired by Richard Powers’s powerful novel on activism, resistance, and the natural world— The Overstory: Jessica Meyer’s A Passage Between Earth and Sky and the collaborative eco-cantata by four composers and five authors, A Forest Unfolding. Free, and reservations are recommended.

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Experience the world premiere of Benedict Sheehan’s oratorio, Akathist, an epic meditation on choosing gratitude, in collaboration with Artefact Ensemble. Featuring The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Artefact Ensemble; NOVUS NY; Downtown Voices; Trinity Youth Chorus; and Elaine Kelly, conductor. Free.

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Experience the world premiere of Benedict Sheehan’s oratorio, Akathist, an epic meditation on choosing gratitude, in collaboration with Artefact Ensemble. Featuring The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Artefact Ensemble; NOVUS NY; Downtown Voices; Trinity Youth Chorus; and Elaine Kelly, conductor. Free.

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Trinity Wall Street presents Bach at One:
Ich liebe den Höchsten von ganzem Gemüte, BWV 174
Falsche Welt, dir grau ich nicht, BWV 52

Margaret Carpenter Haigh, soprano
Timothy Parsons, alto
Nickolas Karageorgiou, tenor
Edmund Milly, bass

Robert Mealy, concertmaster
Avi Stein, director

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Brooklyn Academy of Music presents Broken Chord

Part of Next Wave 2023

Near the end of the 19th century, a group of South African singers embarked on a tour of the UK and the US under the stage name “The African (Native) Choir,” hoping to raise funds to build a school in the city of Kimberley. Though the tour was profitable (and even included an audience with Queen Victoria), proof of the Choir’s performances was thought forever lost—until glass plates of the singers emerged in 2014, 125 years later.

The internationally acclaimed South African dancer and choreographer Gregory Maqoma revisits this forgotten moment in history to cathartic and uplifting effect in his BAM debut. Combining dance, song, and storytelling, the piece vividly reimagines the tour using a chorus of 16 singers and a quartet of musicians, all led by Maqoma himself. As the choir confronts racism at every turn, Maqoma and co-creator Thuthuka Sibisi use prejudice as a creative engine for a theatrical experience that pulses with hard truths and infinite creativity.

Costume design by Laduma Ngxokolo
Lighting design by Oliver Hauser
Sound design by Nthuthuko Mbuyazi
Dramaturgy by Shanell Winlock

Featuring The Choir of Trinity Wall Street

Information and tickets available HERE

Brooklyn Academy of Music presents Broken Chord

Part of Next Wave 2023

Near the end of the 19th century, a group of South African singers embarked on a tour of the UK and the US under the stage name “The African (Native) Choir,” hoping to raise funds to build a school in the city of Kimberley. Though the tour was profitable (and even included an audience with Queen Victoria), proof of the Choir’s performances was thought forever lost—until glass plates of the singers emerged in 2014, 125 years later.

The internationally acclaimed South African dancer and choreographer Gregory Maqoma revisits this forgotten moment in history to cathartic and uplifting effect in his BAM debut. Combining dance, song, and storytelling, the piece vividly reimagines the tour using a chorus of 16 singers and a quartet of musicians, all led by Maqoma himself. As the choir confronts racism at every turn, Maqoma and co-creator Thuthuka Sibisi use prejudice as a creative engine for a theatrical experience that pulses with hard truths and infinite creativity.

Costume design by Laduma Ngxokolo
Lighting design by Oliver Hauser
Sound design by Nthuthuko Mbuyazi
Dramaturgy by Shanell Winlock

Featuring The Choir of Trinity Wall Street

Information and tickets available HERE

Brooklyn Academy of Music presents Broken Chord

Part of Next Wave 2023

Near the end of the 19th century, a group of South African singers embarked on a tour of the UK and the US under the stage name “The African (Native) Choir,” hoping to raise funds to build a school in the city of Kimberley. Though the tour was profitable (and even included an audience with Queen Victoria), proof of the Choir’s performances was thought forever lost—until glass plates of the singers emerged in 2014, 125 years later.

The internationally acclaimed South African dancer and choreographer Gregory Maqoma revisits this forgotten moment in history to cathartic and uplifting effect in his BAM debut. Combining dance, song, and storytelling, the piece vividly reimagines the tour using a chorus of 16 singers and a quartet of musicians, all led by Maqoma himself. As the choir confronts racism at every turn, Maqoma and co-creator Thuthuka Sibisi use prejudice as a creative engine for a theatrical experience that pulses with hard truths and infinite creativity.

Costume design by Laduma Ngxokolo
Lighting design by Oliver Hauser
Sound design by Nthuthuko Mbuyazi
Dramaturgy by Shanell Winlock

Featuring The Choir of Trinity Wall Street

Information and tickets available HERE

Trinity Wall Street presents Bach at One:
Gleichwie der Regen und Schnee von Himmel fällt, BWV 18
Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Sagen, BWV 12

Margaret Carpenter Haigh, soprano
Clifton Massey, alto
Brian Giebler, tenor
Brian Mextdorf, bass

Robert Mealy, concertmaster
Avi Stein, director

Information available HERE