Elizabeth Eschen, mezzo soprano

Bradford Gleim bass

Brahms: Begräbnisgesang (Funeral Song)

Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem)

Performed by

Bernard Labadie, conductor

Lucy Crowe, soprano

James Atkinson, baritone

H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Brahms: Begräbnisgesang (Funeral Song)

Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem)

Performed by:

Bernard Labadie, conductor

Lucy Crowe, soprano

James Atkinson, baritone

H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Masaaki Suzuki, conductor

Hana Blažíková, soprano

Olivia Vermeulen, mezzo-soprano

Tim Mead, countertenor

Shimon Yoshida, tenor

Timothy Edlin, bass-baritone

H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Masaaki Suzuki, conductor

Hana Blažíková, soprano

Olivia Vermeulen, mezzo-soprano

Tim Mead, countertenor

Shimon Yoshida, tenor

Timothy Edlin, bass-baritone

H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Bradford Gleim bass soloist

Raphaël Pichon, conductor

Adriana González, soprano

Emily D’Angelo, mezzo-soprano

Matthew Newlin, tenor

TBD, bass

H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Raphaël Pichon, conductor

Adriana González, soprano

Emily D’Angelo, mezzo-soprano

Matthew Newlin, tenor

TBD, bass

H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Bradform Gleim leads a masterclass for Brown University students in the Applied Music Voice Program. Admission to this event is free and open to the public for observation. Program TBD.

Bradford Gleim leads a Masterclass for students in the Holden Voice Program at Harvard University. Harvard affiliates are welcome to attend.

Haydn: Symphony No. 49, La passione

Mozart: Vesperae solennes de confessore

Hildegard von Bingen: O filie Israhel (“Daughters of Israel”)

Hildegard von Bingen: Flos campi (“Flowers of the field”)

Raffaella Aleotti: Vidi speciosam (“I saw a beauty”)

Raffaella Aleotti: Surge propera amica mea (“Arise, my dear friend”)

Mozart: Mass in C Major, Coronation

Haydn: Symphony No. 49, La passione

Mozart: Vesperae solennes de confessore

Hildegard von Bingen: O filie Israhel (“Daughters of Israel”)

Hildegard von Bingen: Flos campi (“Flowers of the field”)

Raffaella Aleotti: Vidi speciosam (“I saw a beauty”)

Raffaella Aleotti: Surge propera amica mea (“Arise, my dear friend”)

Mozart: Mass in C Major, Coronation

Transport yourself to Venice in 1610 for Monteverdi’s dedication to the Virgin Mary, featuring musicians from several of the nation’s leading period instrument ensembles, including Boston Baroque, Dark Horse Consort, and Handel and Haydn Society.

Sonja DuToit Tengblad and Corrine Byrne, sopranos

Lisa Barone, mezzo-soprano

Jonas Budris, Ethan DePuy, Michael Merullo, tenors

Bradford Gleim and Dana Whiteside, baritones

Wellesley College Choral Program: Dober Memorial Concert

Lisa Graham, Evelyn Barry Director of Choral Music

Nov 4, 7:30 PM Houghton Chapel Free and open to the public

The Wellesley College Choir, Chamber Singers, and Lehigh University Glee Club (Steven Sametz, Director) present The Dober Memorial Concert, featuring Dona nobis pacem by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Sonja Dutoit Tengblad, Soprano

Bradford Gleim, Baritone

This event is free and open to the public. The performance may also be viewed online on the Concert Series YouTube channel.

The acclaimed vocal ensemble Cut Circle will start the evening with 16th-century secular songs in the Italian Academy’s Teatro. Then, during the intermission, the audience and performers will cross Amsterdam Avenue to Columbia University’s St. Paul’s Chapel, where Josquin’s sacred works will complete the program. Both venues boast of excellent acoustics for a cappella music and both were recently restored.

Is the wheel of fortune spinning out of control?? The last few years may suggest as much. Come lament, exalt or otherwise bask in Carl Orff’s musical drama. The Metropolitan Chorale’s performance of Carmina Burana will feature soprano Caroline Corrales, baritone Bradford Gleim and tenor Jonas Budris, with theatrics by the Pazzi Lazzi Troupe, a Boston-based Commedia dell’Arte company.

Music

Haydn: The Creation

Performed by

Harry Christophers, conductor

Joélle Harvey, soprano

Robert Murray, tenor

Matthew Brook, bass-baritone

H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Experience the joy and celebration of one of J. S. Bach's most beloved choral masterworks, the Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248.

Featuring:

Steven Soph, Evangelist

Molly Quinn, soprano

Kate Maroney, mezzo-soprano

Steven Caldicott Wilson, tenor

Bradford Gleim, baritone

Sumner Thompson, baritone

BW Motet Choir

BW Festival Orchestra

Dr. Dirk Garner, conductor

Music

Haydn: Symphony No. 103, Drum Roll

Mozart: Violin Concerto No. 1

Haydn: Theresienmesse

Performed by

Harry Christophers, conductor

Aisslinn Nosky, violin

Mary Bevan, soprano

Catherine Wyn-Rogers, mezzo-soprano

Jeremy Budd, tenor

Sumner Thompson, baritone

H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Music

J.S. Bach: Magnificat, BWV 243

G. Gabrieli: “Hodie Christus natus est” (“Christ is Born Today”)

J.S. Bach: Cantata, BWV 110, Unser Mund sei voll Lachens (“May our Mouth be Full of Laughter”)

CPE Bach: Heilig, Wq. 217

Performed by

Raphaël Pichon, conductor

Lauren Snouffer, soprano

Sonja DuToit Tengblad, soprano

Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano

Zachary Wilder, tenor

Christian Immler, bass-baritone

H+H Orchestra and Chorus

Cut Circle celebrates the quincentenary of Josquin des Prez with vivid, soulful performances of motets and chansons by the Prince of Musicians.

Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum presents Mozart's Requiem, featuring a professional orchestra, Caroline Shaw's To the Hands, and the world premier of Ian Chan's Wander.

Mendelssohn’s Die erste Walpurgisnacht

Kodály’s Budavári Te Deum

Janáček’s Amarus

Teresa Wakim, soprano

Alexandra Dietrich, alto

Lawrence Jones, tenor

Bradford Gleim, baritone

Mendelssohn’s great secular cantata Die erste Walpurgisnacht dramatizes Goethe’s poem about 9th century Druids who trick their Christian oppressors into letting them practice their ancient celebration of spring. Mendelssohn’s music is vigorous and beautiful, and the work evokes issues of religious freedom with considerable wit and charm.

Kodály’s Budavári Te Deum is a glorious, Hungarian-inflected setting of the ancient Latin hymn of praise, commissioned in 1936 by the Lord Mayor of Budapest.

Janáček’s Amarus tells of an orphan, raised by monks with neither love nor affection, who dies when he witnesses true romantic love.

Performed by a 200-voice chorus with a full orchestra. Conducted by Chorus pro Musica’s Music Director, Jamie Kirsch, and Metropolitan Chorale’s Music Director, Lisa Graham.

Bradford Gleim, baritone, and Chi-Chen Wu, piano, will première faculty composer Ralf Gawlick's new work. Best regards Bruno - Letters from Stalingrad (Herzliche Grüße Bruno ~ Briefe aus Stalingrad) is an electro-acoustic work conceived from the last two letters written by the composer's young uncle (19), Bruno Gawlick, before being listed as missing in action in late December 1942. The listener moves through time and space via a soundscape that integrates archival sound recordings with live spoken word, two separate piano parts and the prophecy of the sung voice. The resulting work is unique, and in its intimacy and profound reflections, constitutes a fierce anti-war memorial.

The work is also associated with a larger commemoration: the 75th anniversary of Stalingrad (August, 1942/February 1943 - August, 2017/February 2018).

The Peregrine Consort commemorates Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman, two great Americans whose words and actions powerfully confronted slavery. On March 10 we will listen to their wisdom and insights. They each endured very great personal hardship, and their towering example has much to teach us in our life journeys.

The beautiful Bach Cantata 150, Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich (For Thee, O Lord, I long), which includes texts from the penitential Psalm 25, speaks to enduring life’s hardships.

A song by recently deceased African-American composer George Walker, and works by Aaron Copland, Henry Purcell, Heinrich Schütz, and František Tůma, will also be presented during this Vespers liturgy. As always, the Consort will perform the Baroque-era music on period instruments.

At a reception following the Cantata Vespers, as a special treat, local author Ron Walker will be signing copies of his book, Solomon’s Plan: A Gift of Education from a Father to His Son. In this memoir, Ron Walker reflects on the ways that education shaped his father’s life and his own, as well as important moments through history from the Great Migration to the Civil Rights Era.

Elise Groves, soprano

Clare McNamara, mezzo-soprano

Daniel Schenk, tenor

Bradford Gleim, bass

Julie Leven & Anne Black, violins

Sarah Freiberg-Ellison, ‘cello

Andrew Arceci, violone

Sally Merriman, bassoon

Paul Carlson, harpsichord/organ/piano/conductor

A part of Stanford Live:

“…To love another—would humiliate my heart,” sings the devoted lover in the famous song “D’ung aultre amer,” evoking the power of love to captivate, nourish, and, on occasion, destroy. Love can be earthly and sensual; it can also be spiritual and divine, as when a Biblical figure is cast as the object of desire. In this program, led by Stanford Associate Professor of Music Jesse Rodin, Cut Circle will perform music of both romantic and spiritual intensity by Du Fay, Ockeghem, Josquin, and their contemporaries.