Brattleboro Concert Choir Calendar
With Music Director Jonathan Harvey, the Brattleboro Concert Choir performs an exciting and challenging repertoire, ranging from classic choral masterpieces to rarely heard and newly commissioned works. The Choir’s far-ranging and adventurous programming involves innovative collaborations and presentations, and presents dynamic concerts to packed audiences twice yearly. Rehearsals for the first concert begin Wednesday, September 5th.
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January 2019
Brattleboro Concert Choir: Mozart, Beginnings and Endings
The two pieces on this program are beautiful bookends of Mozart’s musical life. Allegri’s Miserere mei, Deus holds a special place in the lore around Mozart’s prodigious young talent. The piece was written by Allegri in the late 1630s specifically for worship in the Sistine Chapel, where he was employed as a singer. According to legend, the piece was kept guarded there until a 14-year old Mozart visited the Vatican in 1770. Upon hearing the piece once, and being stunned…
Find out more »Brattleboro Concert Choir: Mozart, Beginnings and Endings
The two pieces on this program are beautiful bookends of Mozart’s musical life. Allegri’s Miserere mei, Deus holds a special place in the lore around Mozart’s prodigious young talent. The piece was written by Allegri in the late 1630s specifically for worship in the Sistine Chapel, where he was employed as a singer. According to legend, the piece was kept guarded there until a 14-year old Mozart visited the Vatican in 1770. Upon hearing the piece once, and being stunned…
Find out more »April 2019
Brattleboro Concert Choir – The Last Sunbeam: Music of Grief and Peace
White Key by Reena Esmail and Dona nobis pacem by Ralph Vaughan Williams both grapple with tragedy, and how we as humans process great loss. The first, White Key by the young Indian-American composer Reena Esmail, is about tragedy on a personal scale. Esmail sets a poem by Carol Muske-Dukes, which tells the impressionistic story of the poet’s journey by plane back to her home after receiving news of her husband’s sudden death. Esmail is a close friend of the…
Find out more »Brattleboro Concert Choir – The Last Sunbeam: Music of Grief and Peace
White Key by Reena Esmail and Dona nobis pacem by Ralph Vaughan Williams both grapple with tragedy, and how we as humans process great loss. The first, White Key by the young Indian-American composer Reena Esmail, is about tragedy on a personal scale. Esmail sets a poem by Carol Muske-Dukes, which tells the impressionistic story of the poet’s journey by plane back to her home after receiving news of her husband’s sudden death. Esmail is a close friend of the…
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The Brattleboro Music Center relies on volunteers in the community who give generously of their time. We are pleased to honor the following for their help in June, 2018: