2008-09 season
October 12th, 2008, 5:00pm,: America's
Harvest Festival: Heart Not So Heavy, Music by Barnwell,
Hanson, Ticheli, and Randall Thompson featuring Frostiana.
Trinity Church, Lenox.
Christmas 2008: Christmas in the
Harvard Tradition. Two concerts:Trinity Church in Lenox and at the Old Parish
Church in Sheffield.The program included: Sweelinck's Hodie Christus natus est;
Motets by Distler, Billings, Gregg Smith and Britten's Ceremony of Carols.
February 14, 2009.: Concert for Children.
The featured work on the program was music from The Magic Treehouse: The Musical
by Randy Courts. Berkshire South Regional Community Center, Great Barrington.
Saturday, May 16, 2009, 6 p.m. Revolutionary Music.
The Cantilena Chamber Choir presents music by Tallis, Pizzetti, Schedrin, Sviridov, and
featured the Ten Poems by Revolutionary Poets by Dmitri Shostakovich.
Trinity Church, Lenox.
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.
