2010-2011 Season
Evocations
Friday, November 19, 2010
Sunday, November 21, 2010
First Church, Cambridge
Old South Church, Boston
BCE kicks off its 10th anniversary season with a unique retrospective concert led by conductor Christopher Nickelson. Instead of simply performing old BCE classics, we will revisit our past seasons and bring to light new and familiar works inspired by our first nine years. Includes works by Barber, Britten, Chavez, Copland, Finzi, Poulenc, Swayne, and Thompson.
From Seven Poems of Robert Bridges — Gerald Finzi
3. My spirit sang all day
5. Nightingales
6. Haste on, my joys!
Timor et tremor from Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence — Francis Poulenc
Mary Hines from Reincarnations — Samuel Barber
Help us, O Lord from Four Motets — Aaron Copland
Hymn to St. Cecilia — Benjamin Britten
Nonantsin — Carols Chavez
From Choruses from “The Lark” — Leonard Bernstein
1. Spring Song
2. Court Song
3. Soldier’s Song
From Lonely Hearts — Giles Swayne
1. Reading Scheme
2. Some People
4. Verse for a Birthday Card
From Peaceable Kingdom — Randall Thompson
VII. Have ye not known?
VIII. Ye shall have a song
A Choral Holiday
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Old South Church, Boston
Winchester High School, Winchester
For our 10th anniversary season, BCE expands its programming to include a 4th concert: our first annual Choral Holiday. The Choral Holiday is a light holiday program featuring guest choirs from Winchester High School. The program, led by Miguel Felipe, promises to celebrate the season in a warm and unique BCE way! Works by DiOrio, Handel, Pärt, Rachmaninoff, and Sargsyan.
There is no rose of such virtue, Op. 14 — John Joubert
Gaudete from Two Medieval Lyrics — Steven Sametz
Marjatan jouluvirsi — Einojuhani Rautavaara
Coventry Carol — Trad. (arr. Jonathan Rathbone)
Ave Maria/Hail Mary — Arvo Pärt
A Babe is Born in Bethlehem — William Mathias
Bogoroditse Devo — Sergei Rachmaninoff
Woods in Winter — Dominick DiOrio
Halleluia from Messiah — Georg Friedrich Handel
Door to Paradise
Friday, March 4, 2011
Sunday, March 6, 2011
First Church, Cambridge
Old South Church, Boston
Inspired by the finest 20th century British choral music, Door to Paradise is a thematic program that explores different perspectives on death and life after death. Howell’s sublime Take him, Earth, for Cherishing serves as the centerpiece, with other works by Tavener, Harvey, Scarth, Harris, and Naylor.
Vox dicentis: Clama — Edward Naylor
My God, how wonderful thou art — Richard Scarth
Lux æterna — plainchant
I Love the Lord — Jonathan Harvey
Take him, earth, for cherishing — Herbert Howells
Light’s abode celestial Salem — Richard Scarth
My soul, there is a country — Charles H. H. Parry
In paradisum — plainchant
Angels — John Tavener
Faire is the Heaven — William Henry Harris
Bang!
Friday, June 3, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
First Church, Cambridge
Old South Church, Boston
BCE concludes our 10th anniversary season with a BANG! BCE has invited some of the regions finest percussionists for a program of music for percussion and chorus. The concert will include the premiere of A Depth We Cannot Sound by Timothy C. Takach, winner of our 4th Commission Competition.
Return of the Moon — Peter Klatzow
I Hate and I Love (Odi et amo) — Dominick Argento
A Depth We Cannot Sound — Timothy Takach
World Premiere, Winner of BCE’s 2011 Commission Competition
Missa brevis — Leonard Bernstein