Come celebrate an evensong service in the newly renovated Duke Chapel on Sunday, September 24th, at 4:00 pm.
Music being played is exclusively from the organ music collection donated by David Witt to the Duke University Divinity School. At 3:30 pm, a dedication of the collection will be conducted by Rev. Sally Bates in the Library of the Divinity School.
The Witt family is humbled by this joyous expression of appreciation for the donation of more than 7,000 compositions in the collection. Parking available in the Bryant Student Center parking deck next to the Chapel.
The Raleigh Bach Soloists and N.C. Baroque Orchestra
David Jernigan, Director
Johann Sebastian Bach is thought of largely as the culmination of the Baroque Period and his comprehensive knowledge of all styles and nationalities of music leading up to his time have allowed his music to transcend language, geographical borders, and time. “On the Pillars of Genius” is a two-part concert in which we’ll hear music from some of the composers that Bach studied and loved: Palestrina, Hassler, Gabrieli, Schutz, Sweelink, and Buxtehude. In the second half we’ll hear from the master himself in two of his most famous works, the motet “Jesu, meine freude,” and cantata 147, from which comes one of classical music’s most recognizable pieces, “Jesu, joy of man’s desiring.”
Motivated by the idea that music is a transformational force, Incontri Musicali engages its audiences in world-class chamber music performances that inspire exploration and camaraderie. Through Incontri Musicali’s Community Engagement program, young musicians who are playing on the world’s greatest stages bring the concert experience into schools, hospitals, shelters, and retirement communities.
Incontri’s brilliant young musicians will perform at St. Michael’s on Thursday, October 26 at 7:30 p.m. Under the artistic direction of Niccoló Muti, the ensemble will include clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano, playing works by Penderecki, Brustad and others. Tickets are $10 for adults, and FREE for students and children.
Singers from St. Thomas More Catholic Church, and Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, both Chapel Hill, and also singers from St. Paul’s Lutheran, Durham. The co-presiders will be the Lutheran Bishop Tim Smith and Catholic Bishop Luis Rafael Zamara.
The Choirs of Christ Church Raleigh
David Jernigan, Director
Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, Op. 48, is one of the most frequently performed works in all of classical music. Fauré wrote “that I see death…as an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful experience,” and so his Requiem is a musical expression of faith in the delights of eternal rest. The Christ Church Choirs offer this performance in memory of all from our parish who have died.
The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge and their director Graham Ross present a sumptuous Christmas programme in praise of the Virgin Mary and the coming of the light. Renaissance masterpieces, including Tallis’s sublime ‘Videte miraculum’ and Hieronymus Praetorius’s Christmas Magnificat (performed with its original interpolated carols) sit alongside more recent much-loved seasonal works, including motets by Howells, Britten, Tavener, Rutter and Ross, and some highly-catchy arrangements guaranteed to put you in the festive mood. A perfect start to the Christmas season.
Since the founding of a mixed voice choir in 1972, the Choir of Clare College has gained an international reputation as one of the world’s leading university choirs. In addition to its primary function of leading services three times a week in the College chapel, the Choir keeps an active schedule recording, broadcasting, and performing. Former directors have included John Rutter and Timothy Brown. Under the direction of Graham Ross, Director of Music since 2010, it has been praised for its consistently ‘thrilling’ and ‘outstanding’ performances worldwide.
The Raleigh Bach Soloists and N.C. Baroque Orchestra
David Jernigan, Director
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio is one of the greatest sacred choral works ever written. Similar in size and scale (though far surpassing in symbolism and complexity) to the Messiah, it is composed of six large cantatas written for the period between Christmas Day and the feast of Epiphany. Each cantata makes use of a different set of instruments (flutes, recorders, various kinds of oboes, French horns, trumpets, timpani, strings, and organ), giving the work great color and diversity of sound. Due to its length, technical difficulty, and broad instrumentation, The Christmas Oratorio is rarely performed in its entirety, so don’t miss your chance to experience this great work. (Cantatas 1-3 will be performed on Friday night, and Cantatas 4-6 on Saturday afternoon).
The Raleigh Bach Soloists and N.C. Baroque Orchestra
David Jernigan, Director
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio is one of the greatest sacred choral works ever written. Similar in size and scale (though far surpassing in symbolism and complexity) to the Messiah, it is composed of six large cantatas written for the period between Christmas Day and the feast of Epiphany. Each cantata makes use of a different set of instruments (flutes, recorders, various kinds of oboes, French horns, trumpets, timpani, strings, and organ), giving the work great color and diversity of sound. Due to its length, technical difficulty, and broad instrumentation, The Christmas Oratorio is rarely performed in its entirety, so don’t miss your chance to experience this great work. (Cantatas 1-3 will be performed on Friday night, and Cantatas 4-6 on Saturday afternoon).
Sherezade Panthaki, Soprano & Daniel Shirley, Tenor
The Raleigh Bach Soloists and N.C. Baroque Orchestra
David Jernigan, Director
World famous and critically acclaimed oratorio soprano, Sherezade Panthaki, has worked with the world’s foremost interpreters of baroque music, performed with nearly every major orchestra in the United States (including the New York Philharmonic), and has been reviewed and lauded by the most respected musical journals and news papers in North America.
“Shimmering sensitivity” (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
“astonishing coloratura with radiant top notes” (Calgary Herald);
“combining brilliance with a dark, plumlike tone” (The Wall Street Journal)
“mining deep emotion from the subtle shaping of the lines” (The New York Times).
This evening, she joins celebrated tenor, Daniel Shirley, The Raleigh Bach Soloists & The North Carolina Baroque Orchestra to celebrate George Frederik Handel’s 333rd birthday with a performance the coloratura aria “Let the bright Seraphim” and the oratorio-cantata An Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day.
Christopher Jacobson is Chapel Organist of Duke University. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists, and was formerly Associate Organist and Choirmaster at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Columbia, S.C., and Assistant Organist at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Christopher is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music where he studied organ with David Higgs. He has concertized throughout North America, Europe, and Australia, and he has performed the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Join us for a magnificent concert on St. Michael’s Nichols & Simpson organ. Admission is free.
Tamsin Simmill, Mezzo-Soprano
The Raleigh Bach Soloists and N.C. Baroque Orchestra
David Jernigan, Director
The Easter Oratorio is the second of J.S. Bach’s three oratorios and, like the Ascension Oratorio, is smaller by far than its older cousin, The Christmas Oratorio. Though originally written for Easter Sunday in 1725, Bach revisited The Easter Oratorio several times during his life and didn’t settle on a final version until the late 1740’s. It’s opening sinfonia (a grand concerto grosso movement), large-scale arias, and use of florid trumpet and violin lines combine in a perfect celebration for the Easter season.
Raleigh Bach Soloists charter member, Tamsin Simmill, has sung with many first-rate ensembles and conductors, and is known widely in the Triangle area as a leader in the performance of baroque music. This evening she sings the very stately and beautiful solo alto cantata, Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust (Delightful rest, beloved pleasure of the soul), BWV 170.
The Choirs of Christ Church Raleigh
David Jernigan, Director
In this third annual Festival of Hymns and Anthems, the Choirs of Christ Church Raleigh bask in the glorious, centuries old musical traditions of the great cathedrals of the Anglican Church.