2008-09 season

 

America's Harvest Festival: A Robert Frost retrospective

Choral Music by Robert Frost and his Contemporaries with a guest speaker. Featuring Frostiana by Randall Thompson. Guest artists include the Trinity Church Choir. Sunday, October 12th, 2008 at 5:00pm, Trinity Church, 88 Walker Street, Lenox. All seats $10 at the door.

 

Choral Music at Harvard

Music in the Harvard Memorial Chapel Tradition, featuring Britten's Ceremony of Carols. Sunday, Dember 7th at 3:00pm, Trinity Church, 88 Walker Street, Lenox, and Sunday, December 14th at 3:00pm at theOld Parish Church, Main Street, Sheffield. All seats $15.

 

Children's Classic Fables in Choral Music

Featuring the Musicians of Bremen by Malcom Williamson. Saturday, February 14th, 2009 at 1:00pm, Berkshire South Regional Community Center, 15 Crisey Rd., Great Barrington. All seats $5.

 

A cappella Choral Masterworks concert

Featuring January 9th by Shostakovich and music by Ildebrando Pizzetti. Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 6:00pm, Trinity Church, 88 Walker Street, Lenox. All seats $15.

 

 

2007-08 season

October 14th, 2007: Special collaboration with the New England Baroque Soloists, Douglas Meyer, director. Purcell: Come Ye Sons of Art, Motets by Gesualdo, Parsons, and Tallis, Music for Baroque instrumental ensemble by Bach, Handel, Telemann, and Vivaldi. Trinity Church, Lenox.

Christmas 2007: Two concerts at Trinity Church in Lenox and at the Old Parish Church in Sheffield. The program included: Josquin's Missa Ave Maria Stella; Motets by Gesualdo, Parsons, Tallis, Victoria, Oquin, Kverno and Poulenc; and Rorem's While all Things were in Quiet Silence.

March 8,2008, 8 p.m.: Special appearance in a benefit for the Berkshire Immigrant Center, co-sponsored by the City of Pittsfield Office of Cultural Development in cooperation with the Mayor’s Office. The featured work on the program was Ron Perrera’s The Golden Door based on poetry by Ellis Island immigrants. St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Pittsfield.

Saturday, May 17, 2008, 6 p.m. The New England Baroque soloists and the Cantilena Chamber Choir joined forces to present a concert of both Baroque Chamber Music and new choral music. Bach, Telemann, Handel and Vivaldi, Aaron Copland’s In the Beginning, Scherzi Musicali by Claudio Monteverdi, and excerpts from Bach Cantatas 12 and 147. Trinity Church, Lenox.

 

2006-07 season

September 30, 2006. Brass Spectacular at the Colonial Theater in Pittsfield by special invitation of the Empire Brass.

Christmas 2007. Two concerts were presented, one at Trinity Church, 88 Walker Street in Lenox, and the other at the Old Parish Church on Main Street in Sheffield.

March 4, 2007. Berkshire Composers-in-residence concert at St. John’s Church in Williamstown featuring new works by local composers with on sight critiques.

May 19th, 2007. Music to Frances Benn Hall’s play Pasternak’s Boots starring Annette Miller and Arthur Collins at Trinity Church in Lenox. The evening featured Russian a cappella music throughout the play, and was a special Benefit for the Lenox Library.

June 26th, 2007. Special performance of Boston University’s Tanglewood Two Institute at St. John’s Church in Williamstown. Composers in residence included Ysaye Barnwell of Sweet Honey and the Rock and Anthony Palmer of Boston University.

August 3rd and 4th 2007. Purcell’s Dido and Aeneus at the Aston Magna Festival with an early music ensemble directed by Daniel Stepner at Bard and Simon's Rock Colleges.