2024-2025 Season
Lift Every Voice and Sing
Saturday, November 16, 2024, 7pm
Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufman Music Center
David Recca, Artistic Director
Aizhan Soltanova, Conducting Fellow
Andrea Lodge, piano
lydia adelle, soprano
Pete Malinverni, piano
Gabriel Armstrong, bass
Zach Malian, drums
Christian Miesagaes, trumpet
Gabriel Peña, tenor saxophone
Calvin Rey, baritone saxophone
Eli Johnson, trombone
Reverend Frederick C. Ennette, Sr., reader
Lift Every Voice and Sing, J. Rosamond Johnson, (arr. Pete Malinverni)
Songs and Sonnets, George Shearing
When daffodils begin to peer
It was a lover and his lass
Who is Silvia?
Fie on sinful fantasy
Learned poets (from Little Jazz Madrigals), Bob Chilcott
A Quiet Place, Ralph Carmichael , (arr. Mervyn Warren)
Sonnets (2023), Pete Malinverni,
Sonnet
Deep In the Quiet Wood
The Gift to Sing
Life (The Blues)
The Awakening
The Creation, Pete Malinverni
The Unexpected Early Hour
Saturday, March 8, 2025, 7pm
Merkin Concert Hall, Kaufman Music Center
David J. Recca, Conductor
Aizhan Soltanova, Conducting Fellow
Andrea Lodge, piano
Surge amica mea, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
A Winter Breviary, Reena Esmail
We Look for You (Evensong – Raag Hamsadhwani)
The Year’s Midnight (Matins – Raag Malkauns)
The Unexpected Early Hour (Lauds – Raag Ahir Bhairav)
L’hiver a cessé (from La bonne chanson), Gabriel Fauré
CAROLINE ZAGER, soprano
Suite No. 2, Op. 17, Sergei Rachmaninoff
I. Waltz
II. Romance
When Night Comes, Dusty Francis
WORLD PREMIERE
Standing as I do Before God, Cecilia Mcdowall
REBEKAH HOBBS, soprano
Mid-Winter Songs, Morten Lauridsen
Lament for Pasiphaë
Like Snow
She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep
Mid-Winter Waking
Intercession in Late October
Sleep Now, O Sleep Now, Alexander Craig
Fauré: Requiem & McDowall: Stabat Mater
Saturday, May 17, 2025, 7pm
St. Bartholemew’s Church
David J. Recca, conductor
Aizhan Soltanova, conducting fellow
Andrea Lodge, rehearsal pianist
Alexander Pattavina, organ
Stabat Mater, Cecilia McDowall
Skip Teel, baritone
Cantique de Jean Racine, op. 11, Gabriel Fauré
Requiem in D minor, op. 48, Gabriel Fauré
Emma Dickson, soprano
Daniel Bonthius, baritone
Stephen McCormick, baritone
