Trinity Episcopal Church – Past Concerts

Musical contemplation of the season celebrating our emergence from pandemic silence. Featuring world premieres from Jessica French & Melinda Bargreen, & interspersed with works for solo guitar.

Musical contemplation of the season celebrating our emergence from pandemic silence. Featuring world premieres from Jessica French & Melinda Bargreen, & interspersed with works for solo guitar.

Plainchant, Renaissance, and modern works that employ joyful texts about the creative, life-giving powers of the Trinity.

Antonin Dvořák – Songs of Nature, Op. 63
Jake Runestad – Settings of the poetry of Henry David Thoreau and John Muir
John David Earnest – World premiere
Rick Asher – World premiere

Antonio Lotti – Crucifixus a 8
Johann Sebastian Bach – Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4
Ēriks Ešenvalds – Passion and Resurrection

A powerful choral cycle celebrating the transforming power of poetry and music.

A journey through some of the music composed for two of England's grandest monarchs.

Centuries of American music for unaccompanied choir: Billings, Foster, Barber, Parker-Shaw, Shaker tunes, and spirituals.

Benjamin Britten – Hymn to Saint Cecilia
Frederick Delius – On Craig Ddu
Michael Tippett – Five Spirituals, from A Child of Our Time
William H. Harris – Faire is the heaven
William Walton – Where does the uttered music go?
Ralph Vaughan Williams – Serenade to Music
Arnold Bax – Mater ora filium

Stay for as long or as brief a period as you wish. Introduce children to fine choral music, even if they struggle to sit still or to be completely silent. This rehearsal will cover all repertoire on our next concert.

Beyond the intellectualism of their construction, Bach's six surviving motets sparkle with the various facets of his passionate personality, from the somber to the ebullient.