Recent Seasons under Michael Driscoll

 

2023-2024 Season
May 11, 2024

Florence Price:  Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
William Grant Still: Plain-Chant for America 
Works by Margaret Bonds, Irving Berlin, Randall Thompson, André Thomas, and Dorothy Rudd Moore.
Philip Lima, baritone; Valerie Becker, piano
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury
Concert Description

March 10, 2024

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel:  Lobgesang (Song of Praise)
Johannes Brahms: Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny)
Felix Mendelssohn:  Psalm 42
Dana Lynne Varga, soprano
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury
Concert Description & Program Notes

November 18, 2023

Leonard Bernstein:  Chichester Psalms
Francis Poulenc:  Gloria
Salomon Sulzer:  Psalm 111
César Franck:  Psalm 150
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury
Concert Description & Program Notes

2022-2023 Season
May 13, 2023

Florence Price: Praise the Lord (Psalm 177)
Communion Service in F (selections)
Retrospection, Allegretto, Suite #1 (for organ)
John Rutter: Requiem
Mack Wilburg (arr): Peace Like a River
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury
Concert Description & Program Notes

March 19, 2023

Carol Barnett: The World Beloved, A Bluegrass Mass
Kevin Siegfried: Shaker Song Arrangements
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury
Concert Description & Program Notes

November 19, 2022

Mozart: Regina Coeli, K276
Coronation Mass in C Major, K317
Giovanni Battista Martini: Domine, ad aduvandum me festina
Marianna Martines: Dixit Dominus
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury
Concert Description & Program Notes

Past Seasons under David Carrier

All concerts conducted by David Carrier unless otherwise indicated.

Season 46: 2021–2022
May 14, 2022

Haydn: Missa in Angustiis
Bach: Cantata 140, Wachet auf, in ruft die Stimme
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury

Season 45: 2020–2021

Concerts cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic

Season 44: 2019–2020
Nov. 16, 2019

Carson Cooman:  As We Are Changed
A Commonwealth Composer Concert
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury

Season 43: 2018–2019
May 11, 2019

Menotti: The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore
Thompson: Frostiana
A Commonwealth Composer Concert
Second Church in Newton

March 10, 2019

Salieri: Requiem
Kuhnau: Magnificat
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury

November 11, 2018

Verdi: Requiem
With Metropolitan Chorale, Lisa Graham, Conductor
Jordan Hall, Boston

October 27, 2018

Rachmaninoff: The Bells
With New England Philharmonic, Richard Pittman, Conductor
Jordon Hall, Boston

Season 42: 2017–2018
May 12, 2018

Brahms: Zigeunerlieder
Elder: Three Nocturnes
Paulus: The Road Home
Bernstein: Make Our Garden Grow
Tarver: Fill the Night with Music
Bosba: Remember Me
A Commonwealth Composer Concert
Second Church in Newton

March 11, 2018

Arnesen: The Wound in the Water
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury

Nov. 11, 2017

Amy BeachGrand Mass in E-flat Major
A Commonwealth Composer concert
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury

Season 41: 2016–2017
May 13, 2017

SchubertMirjams Siegegesange
Brahms: Drei Quartette, op.64
CoplandAt the River; Long Time Ago; Simple Gifts
GraingerBriggs Fair
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury

March 13, 2017

Mozart: Requiem
Mozart: Jubilate
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury

November 19, 2016

Van Ness: Nocturnes
Pinkham: Christmas Cantata
Jongen: Messe en l’honneur du Saint-Sacrement
A Commonwealth Composer Concert
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury

Season 40: 2015–2016
May 13, 2017

SchubertMirjams Siegegesange
Brahms: Drei Quartette, op.64
CoplandAt the River; Long Time Ago; Simple Gifts
GraingerBriggs Fair
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury

March 13, 2017

Mozart: Requiem
Mozart: Jubilate
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury

November 19, 2016

Van Ness: Nocturnes
Pinkham: Christmas Cantata
Jongen: Messe en l’honneur du Saint-Sacrement
A Commonwealth Composer Concert
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury

Season 39: 2014–2015
May 16, 2015

Pinkham: Garden Party
Woodman: Narcissus
Cooman: Eros
Cooman: The Choir Invisible
A Commonwealth Composer Concert
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury

March 15, 2015

Langlais: Messe Solennelle
Ringwald: Deep River
Ringwald, Precious Lord, Take My Hand
Dawson: Ezekiel Saw de Wheel
Sargon: V’shamru
Lewandowski: Enosh
Janowski: Hashkiveynu
Weill: Kiddush
Howells: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittus
Stanford: For Lo, I Raise Up
Second Church in Newton

November 16, 2014

Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony
Sanders Theatre, Cambridge

Season 38: 2013–2014
May 17, 2014

Forrest: Good Night, Dear Heart
Muehleisen: Consolation (Requiem for Newtown)
Schutz: Musikalische Exequien
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury

March 2014

Janowski: Adonai Roi; Sim Shalom
Lewandowski: Enosh
Bloch: Sacred Service
Second Church in Newton

November 16, 2013

Herbolsheimer: Thanksgiving Day 1861-One Vacant Chair
Brahms: Alto Rhapsody
Schubert: Mass No. 5 in A-flat Major
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury

Season 37: 2012–2013
May 11, 2013

Faure: Requiem
Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine
Palestrina: Sicut Cervus
Stanford: Beati Quorum Bia
Stanford: For lo, I raise up
Second Church in Newton

March 24, 2013

Haydn: Die Schoepfung (The Creation)
Sanders Theatre, Cambridge

November 17, 2012

Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
With Youth Pro Musica
Handel: Let the Bright Seraphim
Bach: Wie will mich freuen
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury

Season 36: 2011–2012
May 12, 2012

Bach: Singet dem Herrn
Bach: Cantata 182, Himmelskonig, sei willkommen
Bach: Contata 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen
Byrd: Laudibus in Sanctis
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury

March 11, 2012

F. Martin: Mass for Double Chorus
D. Pinkham: Wedding Cantata
J. Brahms: Liebeslieder Waltzes
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury

November 19, 2011

Mozart: Regina Coeli
Haydn: Te Deum
Beethoven: Mass in C
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury

Season 35: 2010–2011
May 7, 2011

Mozart: Vesperae Solennes de Dominica
Haydn: St. Nicholas Mass
Our Lady Help of Christians, Newton

March 13, 2011

Rachmaninoff: All-Night Vigil, Op. 37
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury

November 20, 2010

Brahms: Ein deutches Requiem
Brahms: O Heiland reiss die Himmel auf
With Newton Symphony Orchestra
Church of the Holy Name, West Roxbury