May 2023

Celebrating Harmony in Troubled Times

John Rutter: Requiem
Florence Price: Praise the Lord, settings from Communion Service in F,
Retrospective, Allegretto, Suite #1 (for organ)
- watch the full concert below and read the program notes
 

November 2022, Celebrating a new era:
Mozart, Martines, and a Martini

W.A. Mozart: Regina Coeli, K276; Coronation Mass in C Major, K317
Marianna Martines: Dixit Dominus
Giovanni Battista Martini: Domine, ad adjuvandum me festina
- watch the full concert below and read the program notes

November 2023

Glory and Praise

Leonard Bernstein:  Chichester Psalms
Francis Poulenc:  Gloria
Salomon Sulzer:  Psalm 111
César Franck:  Psalm 150 
- watch the full concert below and read the program notes

 

 

Slideshow-American Video 1140.jpgCommonwealth Chorale had prepared a November 2021 program with the lovely harmonies of composer Stephen Paulus and the stirring, uplifting choral works of Gwyneth Walker. With the pandemic continuing, the live performance was canceled, but we came together to record this beautiful music to offer our audience a video experience. Here we present the Paulus and Walker pieces, as well as a past recording by the Chorale of several songs from Randall Thompson’s beloved Frostiana.  

Stephen Paulus

Hymn for America
Pilgrims’ Hymn
The Road Home

Settings of poetry by Michael Dennis Browne

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Gwyneth Walker

Our Dream of Freedom
Settings of poetry by Langston Hughes

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Randall Thompson

Three Songs from Frostiana
Settings of poetry by Robert Frost
- The Road Not Taken
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- Choose Something Like a Star

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