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Generations of choristers have sung the works of iconic composer Alice Parker. This long weekend workshop in The Berkshires is the perfect location to explore her choral legacy—from the early Robert Shaw arrangements through her original compositions.
Sing in one of America’s most historic musical settings on Memorial Day Weekend! Join newly-appointed BCI Artistic Director Anthony Trecek-King for a program inspired by choral music for piano four-hands including the Brahms Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes, Copland’s The Promise of Living, and exciting music of Handel, Hagenberg, and Shank.
To commemorate Bruckner’s 200th birthday, we’ll perform his monumental
Te Deum for chorus and orchestra, which premiered in this very hall in 1886. The program also includes Schubert’s energetic Magnificat and Elgar’s heartfelt The Music Makers.
Eugene Rogers, Director of Choirs at the University of Michigan and Artistic Director of The Washington Chorus, makes his BCI debut with a program offering a powerful affirmation of the human experience and the search for justice and peace.
Epic and majestic, A Sea Symphony takes full chorus and orchestra on a voyage of the soul, set to words of Walt Whitman. Joe Miller, Professor of Conducting and Director of Choral Studies at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, returns to BCI to lead this Vaughan Williams program, which also includes the Five Mystical Songs.
Sing Verdi’s towering choral masterpiece with full orchestra in the majestic Teatro Verdi, one of Florence’s most historic theaters (located on Via Giuseppe Verdi itself, just steps from the Piazza di Santa Croce). Heinz Ferlesch, Artistic Director of Vienna Singakademie, will lead his seventh BCI concert.
Extravagant and theatrical, Orff’s cantata Carmina Burana provides a festive week of medieval-inspired dancing, drinking, debauchery, and romance. Paired with Brahms’ revered Schicksalslied, it’s a program of destiny.
Haydn’s exquisitely crafted late mass setting is paired with the conductor’s gospel-hued choral-orchestral arrangements of traditional spirituals.
Rollo Dilworth leads a joyous program in which these works speak to each other across the centuries about the challenges of living through conflict and the quest for peace.
The kaleidoscopic program will be a choral exploration of the concept of “home” in contrasting genres and traditions. Our performance will take place in renowned Ozawa Hall, the architectural and acoustic jewel of The Berkshires.
For information on older programs, view or download our chronological list of all programs since our founding in 1982.