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🔆 The summer programs page lists 16 programs (last change 4/26/24).

May 11, 2024 (Saturday)

iCal 8:00 PM. Commonwealth Chorale [MA]: The Dream Unfinished. Told through the voices of a diverse selection of composers, this concert celebrates the ideals of the American Dream, and explores racial injustice, hope, human resilience, and the possibility of realizing a world where people are not enslaved and where people of all backgrounds can coexist harmoniously. Florence Price: Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight; My Dream; William Grant Still: Plain Chant for America; Margaret Bonds: The Negro Speaks of Rivers; I, Too; Randall Thompson: The Testament of Freedom; Irving Berlin: Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor; André Thomas: I Dream a World; Dorothy Rudd Moore: Fourth of July Speech. Philip Lima, baritone; Valerie Becker, piano. Tickets: $40 general admission, $10 students, free with EBT/WIC cards. For more information, call 617-527-7464 or email marketing@CommonwealthChorale.com. Church of the Holy Name, 1689 Centre Street, West Roxbury MA 02132 (View flier) ⓘ

March 10, 2024 (Sunday)

iCal 3:00 PM. Commonwealth Chorale [MA]: Fate and Faith. Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Lobgesang; Johannes Brahms: Schicksalslied; Felix Mendelssohn: Psalm 42. Dana Lynne Varga, soprano; Dr. Michael Driscoll, conductor. With professional orchestra. General admission $40, students $10, EBT free at door. For more information, call 617-527-7464 or email marketing@CommonwealthChorale.com. Church of the Holy Name, 1689 Centre Street, West Roxbury MA 02132 (View flier) ⓘ

November 18, 2023 (Saturday)

iCal 8:00 PM. Commonwealth Chorale [MA]: Glory and Praise. Leonard Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Francis Poulenc: Gloria; Salomon Sulzer: Psalm 111; César Franck: Psalm 150. Sonja DuToit Tengblad, soprano; Leo Balkovetz, tenor; Susan DeSelms, organ. With organ, harp, percussion, and bass. Premiered in the 1960s, both Chichester Psalms and Poulenc’s Gloria were influenced by jazz and popular music, and both exemplify the power of ancient sacred texts to express timeless desires for peace and spiritual transcendence. For more information, call 617-527-7464 or email marketing@CommonwealthChorale.com. Church of the Holy Name, 1689 Center Street, West Roxbury MA 02132 (View flier) ⓘ

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Archived Online Events

  • The Seraphim Singers [MA]: Inspired to Joy. We have been through many challenges in recent years, yet Joy resurfaces from consolation growing into hope. Ivo Antognini: Hope is the thing with feathers (poetry by Emily Dickinson); Hubert Parry: There is an old belief; Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Magnificat in F; Trevor Weston: Lauda (premiere, commissioned work, poetry by Angelo Geter); works of J.S. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, Franz Biebl, and Maurice Duruflé. Pre-concert forum with Trevor Weston, and Angelo Geter at 7:30 pm on March 2. The March 3 concert will be broadcast. Stephan Griffin, baritone; Heinrich Christensen, organ; Paul Mattal and Stephanie Wingfield, cello. Tickets: $22 advance/$25 door; seniors $17 advance/$20 door; students $10; virtual: $15+. [3/2 & 3/3/2024] West Roxbury MA ⓘ