 BCE’s 2011–2012 Season
The Boston Choral Ensemble’s 11th season continues our growing tradition of innovative programs that celebrate the vast range of our choral tradition. This year is an especially important year as the Ensemble welcomes new artistic director Andrew Shenton.
Be sure to join us this year as we welcome Andrew and celebrate his new leadership with four fantastic concerts.
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18|20 November 2011
Our opening concert celebrates the 400th anniversary of the death of Tomás Luis de Victoria with a performance of his 12-voice Missa Ascendens Christus, combined with music by award-winning contemporary British composer Judith Weir.
Join BCE and the Choirs of Marlborough High School for a concert of music to celebrate the holidays, including carols for congregation and organ.
We explore the dream state with evocative music by Eric Whitacre (including Sleep and Leonardo dreams of his flying machine), Butterfly Dreams by John Tavener; Judith Weir’s a blue true dream of sky and madrigals by Dowland and others.
This concert features works commissioned by Dean Walter Hussey for Chichester Cathedral in England, including Leonard Bernstein’s sensational Chichester Psalms, the stunning Chichester Mass by American composer William Albright, a setting of Psalm 23 by Lennox Berkeley, and canticle settings by Bryan Kelly and William Walton. In the spirit of Hussey’s adventurous commissioning these concerts will feature the world premiere of the piece composed for BCE by the winner of our 2012, 5th Anniversary Commission Competition.
The Boston Choral Ensemble is thrilled to be collaborating with the Manado State University Choir, a mixed-voice chamber choir of approximately 24 singers from the province of North Sulawesi, Indonesia that has been acclaimed for its remarkable artistry, capacity to move an audience, and beautiful sound. The two choirs will be performing a number of pieces separately as well as several pieces together, under Manado State conductor Professor André de Quadros, BCE conductor Andrew Shenton, and guest conductor Miguel Felipe.
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