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Tallinn, home of the singing revolution, is our base for an exciting week exploring the culture and history of the Baltics. Patrick Dupre Quigley leads the Brahms Requiem and Lakes Awake at Dawn by Ēriks Ešenvalds.
Anthony Trecek-King leads a fresh program featuring Mozart’s celebratory Coronation Mass along with masterpieces by two contemporaries: Martines’ radiant Dixit Dominus and the Requiem in D minor by Nunes Garcia.
Beth Willer, Director of Choral Studies at the Peabody Institute, leads a bold orchestral program with music by two British icons. Dame Ethel Smyth’s exuberant, almost operatic Mass in D and Britten’s kaleidoscopic Rejoice in the Lamb.
Deke Sharon, the dynamic guru of modern a cappella explores singing styles from doo-wop to jazz, and Broadway to contemporary pop hits including songs by The Beatles, Kelly Clarkson, U2, Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, and Eric Clapton.
Andrea Ramsey’s Suffrage Cantata for chorus, chamber orchestra and narrator is an urgent exploration of America’s suffrage movement. Iris Levine leads inspiring works by Casals, Powell, and more for BCI’s first SSAA program.
Conducting icon André Thomas leads an enlightening program of African-American choral music from spirituals to the Harlem Renaissance through today. Our four days at Tanglewood conclude with an inspiring final concert at Ozawa Hall.
This city of stunning historic and contemporary contrasts is the perfect setting for a program that juxtaposes Mozart’s timeless Requiem with
Bernstein’s jazzy and bold Chichester Psalms, set to a text in Hebrew.
Responding to the hate crime murder of young Matthew Shepard, acclaimed conductor and composer Craig Hella Johnson created a compassionate and ultimately hopeful musical response. This fusion oratorio incorporates a
variety of musical styles into a unified whole with settings of soulful texts by poets including Hildegard of Bingen, Lesléa Newman, Rumi, as well as passages from Matt’s personal journal, newspaper reports, and more.
A dream program for the choral-orchestral music aficionado. Haydn’s stirring masterpiece, the Lord Nelson Mass, will be paired with Brahms’ transcendent Nänie and Jake Runestad’s luminous and colorful Into the Light, with texts by Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Helen Keller, among others.
For information on older programs, view or download our chronological list of all programs since our founding in 1982.