February, 2013 Seraphim Singers Choral Music Events

 

 

Sunday, February 10, 2013, 2:30 P.M.

Pre-concert talk by Dr. Michael Connolly, Associate Professor and Chairman, 
Department of Slavic & Eastern Languages, Boston College

 

3:00 P.M.  Concert


First Church Cambridge
11 Garden Street

Harvard Square, Cambridge

 

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Sunday, February 17, 2013, 4:00 P.M.

Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church

16 Highland Avenue

Cohasset, MA

 

Tickets: $20 Adults / $15 Students & Seniors available at the door

 

 

 

Icons and Music: Windows on the Divine

Jennifer Lester, Conductor 


Envisioning the Divine by means of media such as religious icons and stained glass windows has long been an integral part of religious experience. In this concert the Seraphim Singers demonstrate a fusion of the aural and visual contemplative imagination in a program that features stirring works by Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, and Penderecki paired with the modern music of Tavener, Pärt, and Poulenc.

 

Alexandre Gretchaninoff

Svete tihiy, from the cycle Holy Week

Slava v vishnikh Bogu (Glory to God in the Highest)

Nikolai  Kedroff, Otche nash (Our Father)

Olivier Messiaen, O Sacrum Convivium

Arvo Pärt, The Beatitudes

Krzysztof Penderecki, Song of Cherubim

Francis Poulenc, Litanies ā la vierge noire

Sergei Rachmaninoff, selections from All-Night Vigil, Opus 37

                Come, Let us Worship

                Lord, Now Lettest Thou

                Rejoice, O Virgin

                Praise the Name of the Lord

Georgy Sviridov, Dosttoyno Yest, from the cycle Inexpressible Wonder

John Tavener, Two Hymns to the Mother of God

Peter Tchaikovsky

                Svete tihiy, from All-Night Vigil, Opus 52

                The Cherubic Hymn, from Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Opus 41

 

 

 

2:30 P.M.

Pre-concert talk by Dr. Michael Connolly, Associate Professor and Chairman, 
Department of Slavic & Eastern Languages, Boston College

3:00 P.M.

Concert


Sunday, February 10, 2013
First Church Cambridge
11 Garden Street

Harvard Square, Cambridge

 

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4:00 P.M.

Sunday, February 17, 2013

Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church

16 Highland Avenue

Cohasset, MA

 

Tickets: $20 Adults / $15 Students & Seniors available at the door

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