Concert Calendar

Concert II: Sunday, November 20, 2011
A Mentor's Memory
560 Music Center
560 Trinity Avenue, University City, Missouri 63130
Tributes to teachers in the Renaissance and more recent past compliment this scholarly setting. Josquin laments Ockeghem, and Gombert commemorates Josquin, while Byrd celebrates Thomas Tallis. Both C. V. Stanford and Ralph Vaughan Williams pay their respects to their colleague and mentor Hubert Parry with the expansive Gloria for two choirs and hushed Prayer to the Father of Heaven.

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Concert III: Sunday, December 18, 2011
Two performances, 3:00 p.m. (sold out) and 6:00 p.m. (sold out)
A King's Christmas
St. Vincent de Paul Chapel
20 Archbishop May Drive, Saint Louis, Missouri 63119
We recreate the traditional Nine Lessons & Carols broadcast each Christmas Eve from King’s College, Cambridge, with music commissioned for that occasion by Arvo Pärt, Peter Sculthorpe, and Peter Maxwell Davies. Traditional carols complete this program performed in an appropriately collegiate setting.

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Concert IV: Sunday, February 19, 2012
A Chorus Carouse (sold out)
The Schlafly Tap Room
2100 Locust Street, Saint Louis, Missouri 63103
We explore the many composers who have sung the praises of beer, from Schubert and Kodaly to Holst and Poulenc, and now add two frothy works: Songs of Ale, specially written for this concert by the distinguished British composer (and beer enthusiast) Robert Walker, and Paul Crabtree’s Suite from The Simpsons.

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Concert V: Sunday, April 22, 2012
A Traveler's Tale
First Presbyterian Church of Kirkwood
100 East Adams Avenue, Kirkwood, Missouri 63122
Exotic locales, from Iceland and the French Alps to Italian lakes and submerged Irish villages, are evoked by a dazzling array of composers. Judith Bingham and Carl Orff balance Thomas Weelkes and Johannes Brahms, and a commission from Sydney and Gabriel Guillaume celebrates their recent return to their Haitian homeland.

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Concert VI: Sunday, May 27, 2012
A Leader's Lament
Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church
5020 Rhodes Avenue, Saint Louis, Missouri 63109
The demise of a beloved Scottish king is lamented by Granville Bantock, while two American presidents are remembered by an African-American artist, Ulysses Kay (A Lincoln Letter) and a British master Herbert Howells (JFK – Take Him, Earth, For Cherishing). Finally, our new Composer-in Residence, Yakov Gubanov, provides a world premiere setting of lyrics by Tsar Nicholas II.

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