From the Director
Homework for 4/2:
FROSTIANA - The Telephone and A Girl’s Garden
LUX AETERNA - In Te, Domini, Speravi and Agnus Dei - Lux Aeterna
NYS Baroque performs Monteverdi Vespers of 1610
"The iconic masterpiece, performed here for the first time in ten years! Paul O'Dette conducts twenty-five brilliant NYS Baroque musicians, including singers, trombones, cornettos, strings, and theorbos."
Pre-concert talk by Paul O'Dette at 6:45 p.m.
Performances:
Friday, April 4, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. at Plymouth Congregational Church,
232 East Onondaga Street, Syracuse
Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 7:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church,
315 North Cayuga Street, Ithaca
Schola Cantorum of Syracuse (with Gerald Wolfe as one of 14 singers) performs Brahms’ A German Requiem
A chamber-scale presentation by the 14-voice choir; in De Witt with Sar Shalom-Strong and Sabine Krantz in Brahms’ own piano four-hands arrangement; in Ithaca with Jeffrey Snedeker on St. Luke’s Juget-Sinclair French Romantic organ (2016). Together with short motets of Heinrich Schütz and Johann Christoph Bach; and also (in Ithaca only) two Brahms chorale preludes for organ - part of the last composition of Brahms's life.
Performances:
Sunday, March 30 at 4:00 p.m. at Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church,
5299 Jamesville Road, Dewitt
Tickets at the door: $20 (seniors $15, students & children $5)
Sunday, April 6 at 4:00 p.m. at St. Luke Lutheran Church,
109 Oak Avenue, Ithaca
Free admission (donations gratefully accepted)
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