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Enjoy our most recent concerts below, or visit our YouTube channel and listen to music from all of our concerts.

March 2025
Fate and Earthly Pleasures

Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
Alexandra Henderson, soprano, Morgan Mastrangelo, tenor
Nicholas Ottersberg-Enriquez, baritone
In collaboration with:
Rivers Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Memoli, conductor
Wellesley Middle School 6th Grade Treble Chorus, Lauren Connors, Director
> Concert video and program notes

November 2024
Reverent Praise

Johann Sebastian Bach: Magnificat
Jonathan Dove: Köthener Messe*
Cecilia McDowall: Laudate (US premiere)
Julia Soojin Cavallaro, mezzo-soprano; Maria Whitcomb, soprano;
Laura Beth Couch, mezzo-soprano;
Leo Balkovetz & Matthew McGinnis, tenors; William Farrell, baritone
*Not included in video
> Concert video and program notes

May 2024
The Dream Unfinished

Florence Price: Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
William Grant Still: Plain-Chant for America
Margaret Bonds, Irving Berlin, Randall Thompson, André Thomas, and Dorothy Rudd Moore: various works
Phil Lima, baritone
> Full concert video

March 2024
Fate and Faith

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel: Lobgesang (Song of  Praise)
Johannes Brahms: Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny)
Felix Mendelssohn: Psalm 42
Dana Lynne Varga, soprano
> Full concert video and program notes
 

November 2023

Glory and Praise

Leonard Bernstein:  Chichester Psalms
Francis Poulenc:  Gloria
Salomon Sulzer:  Psalm 111
César Franck:  Psalm 150 
Sonja DuToit Tengblad, soprano; Leo Balkovetz, tenor;
Susan DeSelms, organist
> Full concert video and program notes

May 2023
Celebrating Harmony in Troubled Times

Florence Price: Praise the Lord, and settings from Communion Service in F, short works for organ
John Rutter: Requiem
Mack Wilberg: Peace like a River
Corrine Byrne, soprano; Susan DeSelms, organist
> Full concert video and 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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