A Preview of Our 2025-2026 50th Anniversary Season!
Our celebratory 50th anniversary season starts Sunday, November 23, 2025, at 4pm with Daniel Pinkham's Christmas Cantata, Lili Boulanger's Vieille prière bouddhique (“Old Buddhist Prayer”) and Psalm 24, Flor Peeters' Entrata Festiva and Magnificat, and Max Janowski's Sim Shalom ("Grant us Peace"). We will be joined by organ, a brass quintet, and timpani.
Our celebration continues Sunday March 8, 2026, at 4pm with an exciting new arrangement by English composer Howard Arman of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's beloved Requiem. Arman's arrangement reflects over two decades studying Mozart's manuscript, resulting in a new orchestration that Arman and other Mozart experts believe is more in keeping with Mozart’s compositional style. We will also bring you two Psalm settings by prominent 19th-century composer José Maurício Nunes Garcia, his compositions blend the strong influence of European classical music with the musical traditions of his native Brazil, yielding rich harmonies and choral depth that evoke devotion and solemnity. Both pieces will be accompanied by full orchestra.
Appropriately in these challenging times, our 50th anniversary season concludes Saturday, May 16, 2026, at 7pm with passion, politics, and pulse-pounding rhythms. Argentinian Alberto Ginastera's Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah was written while Ginastera was living in the USA after being targeted by the Perón regime for supporting civil liberties. Fellow Argentinian composer Martín Palmeri's tango-influenced Misa a Buenos Aires ("Misatango"), pairs traditional Latin Mass texts with irresistible rhythms and exhilarating melodicism, accompanied by strings, piano, and bandoneon. Adding to the emotional power and excitement, this program will also feature tango works with tango orchestra and tango dancers!
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Auditions
Our next auditions will be held by appointment in late August and early September. Details are posted on the Sing with Us page.
We seek choral singers of all voice types, who have strong vocal and sight-reading skills. We especially seek those singing tenor or bass.
Auditions are at our rehearsal location at First Baptist Church, 848 Beacon Street in Newton Centre, a few minutes walk from the Newton Centre station on the MBTA Green Line D branch. There is also free parking in the church parking lot (accessed off Centre Street).
To request an audition and to learn more about our Young Singers Scholarship program, visit the Sing with Us page.