Upcoming Performances

MasterVoices Presents

A Jubilant Song

December 1, 2009 at 7:00PM | Carnegie Hall

Maestro James Bagwell in his inaugural concert as The Chorale’s newly appointed Music Director presents A JUBILANT SONG, a celebration of the organization’s remarkable history of exceptional conductors, noteworthy commissions, and premieres, and multi-faceted choral programming

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The Grapes of Wrath

By Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie

March 22, 2010 at 8:00PM | Carnegie Hall

Originally commissioned and produced by the Minnesota Opera and called “The great American opera” by Musical America, Gordon and Korie’s new work melds popular musical styles of the ‘20s and ‘30s with the classic drama of grand opera, all to a heart-wrenching yet uplifting effect.  The composer (Gordon) and librettist (Korie) have crafted a special concert version of their original opera with narration written especially for this presentation.

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Israel in Egypt

By George F. Handel

May 12, 2010 at 8:00PM | Skirball Center for the Performing Arts at New York University

Handel’s Israel in Egypt is a rich musical setting of the biblical story of the Exodus.  In this choral tour de force, vivid images of the Exodus story are recounted during the first segment, which is complemented by the beautiful and exultant second half, The Song of Moses.  Both colossal and tender, this work of epic imagery and text painting is one of Handel’s monumental achievements.

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Alto Rhapsody and A German Requiem

By Johannes Brahms

October 13, 2010 at 7:00PM | Carnegie Hall

International artist and Musical America’s 2009 Vocalist of the Year mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe performs with The Collegiate Chorale in Brahms’ lush, rarely-seen Alto Rhapsody.  Metropolitan Opera baritone Eric Owens and soprano Erin Morley will join The Chorale to perform Brahms’ transcendent masterpiece A German Requiem. 

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Knickerbocker Holiday

By Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson

January 25, 2011 at 8:00PM
January 26, 2011 at 8:00PM
Alice Tully Hall

Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson teamed up for the first time to create this delightful romantic comedy.  First performed in 1938 with Walter Huston in the role of Peter Stuyvesant, the work is one of Weill’s deft hybrid theater pieces which lies somewhere between operetta and musical theater, and also contains bits of political satire.

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We Remember Them:

March 10, 2011 at 7:00PM | Central Synagogue

In this concert of choral works by composers who perished in the Holocaust, as well as contemporary composers who wrote to sustain the memory of all those who suffered, we are also reminded of man’s profound ability to create beauty out of madness.

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Moïse et Pharaon

By Gioachino Rossini

November 30, 2011 at 8:00PM | Carnegie Hall

Music Director James Bagwell will conduct The Collegiate Chorale and American Symphony Orchestra with legendary bass-baritone James Morris, 2011 Richard Tucker Award Winner Angela Meade and renowned soloists Kyle Ketelsen, Eric Cutler and Marina Rebekain this opera-in-concert presentation.

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Te Deum & A Child of Our Time

By Anton Bruckner and Michael Tippett

February 3, 2012 at 7:00PM | Carnegie Hall

Written in response to Kristallnacht in a decidedly twentieth-century musical language,  A Child of Our Time  is a unique oratorio that reflects Tippett’s pacifism and belief that people contain both “shadow and light.”