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Julia Wolfe: Anthracite Fields (2015) The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and the Bang on a Can All-Stars Julian Wachner, conductor In a stunning blend of diverse musical styles, Julia Wolfe’s Anthracite Fields is an intensely detailed oratorio about turn-of-the-20th-century Pennsylvania coal miners. Winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Music, Anthracite Fields weaves together personal interviews that Wolfe conducted with miners and their families, along with oral histories, speeches, rhymes, and local mining lore. “This is a major, profound work.” – Los Angeles Times Julian Wachner: Symphony No. 1 (2014) The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Trinity Youth Chorus, NOVUS NY, and the Majestic Brass Quintet Julian Wachner, conductor, Jessica Muirhead, soprano, Chris Burchett, baritone This 3-CD set brings together Julian Wachner’s most important works for orchestra and voices, including Canticles, his monumental Symphony No. 1, the theatrically charged Regina Coeli, the oratorio Come, My Dark-Eyed One, and the jazzy, blues-infected Blue, Green, Red for trumpet and organ. Ralf Yusuf Gawlick: Missa gentis humanae (2014) Members of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street Julian Wachner, conductor A bold and original multilingual “Mass for the Human Race,” Missa gentis humanae blends a traditional devotional liturgical text with passages from Borges, Virgil, Brecht, Dostoevsky, and more—in an eight-voice a cappella setting, recorded at the Church of the Redeemer in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.
Paola Prestini: Oceanic Verses (2014) The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and various artists Julian Wachner, conductor Called “a sweeping social portrait of southern Italy” by The New York Times, Paola Prestini’s opera Oceanic Verses is a 60-minute meditation on fading civilizations. The exploration is led by an archaeologist, whose investigation into the “artifacts of song” carries her into a collision of the past and present.
George Frideric Handel: Israel In Egypt (2012) The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra Julian Wachner, conductor Handel’s colossal biblical oratorio comprises no less than twenty-eight massive double choruses, linked together by a few bars of recitative, with five arias and three duets interspersed among them. This GRAMMY®-nominated recording is a performance of the rarely heard or recorded 1756 version of the composition.
Elena Ruehr: Averno (2012) The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and NOVUS NY Julian Wachner, conductor, Marguerite Krull, soprano, Stephen Salters, baritone Composer Elena Ruehr finds inspiration in the rhythms of language drawn from the poetry of Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, and Mary Ellen Solt. The title work, Averno, is a cantata that sets 11 poems of Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Louise Glück to music.
Johann Sebastian Bach: Complete Motets (2011) The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra Julian Wachner, conductor Bach’s seven motets represent the continuation of a long and distinguished tradition of vocal composition, dating back to the late medieval works of Dufay. They represent the apogee of the genre and are Bach’s most demanding vocal works. This recording was released in observance of the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001.
Visit trinitywallstreet.org/recordings to purchase any of these recordings.
Welcome to the Music and Arts Ministry at Trinity Church, Wall Street. There is music to fill your soul, challenge your senses, and bring you closer to God. This year, along with the splendor of the familiar, we offer the world premiere of Angel’s Bone, a challenging work of opera-theatre that explores the motivations behind modern day slavery and human trafficking. We are also providing significant music education and outreach in our community. And we are offering a multitude of musical events from the Twelfth Night Festival in December to a week of revolutionary and revelatory music in May. We invite you to join us as we explore the spiritual call of music that is at once exquisite and inspiring, music that is vital to our community and not to be missed. I hope to see you there. Faithfully,
The Rev. Dr. William Lupfer Rector, Trinity Wall Street
I am pleased to invite you to a new season of uplifting and transformative music and the arts at Trinity Wall Street! From our signature series Bach at One, Concerts at One, and Compline by Candlelight, through our various partnerships, collaborations, and commissions — Trinity continues to be a center of artistic activity in Lower Manhattan helping to reshape New York City’s newest residential village. Our community is open to all, and we hope that you discover something here that stirs your soul and keeps you returning for more! Welcome!
Dr. Julian Wachner Director, Music and the Arts
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The mission of Music and the Arts at Trinity Wall Street is to transform lives by sustaining a center of artistic creativity born in spirituality and expressed at the highest level of excellence.
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The Choir of Trinity Wall Street
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Bach at One
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Compline 9 Messiah 10 Bach’s St. Matthew Passion
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Opera. 12 Beyond Trinity
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Education and Outreach
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Concerts at One
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Congregational Arts
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Trinity Ringers
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Downtown Voices
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Mass Reimaginings
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“A mini Lincoln Center for classical music downtown” The New Yorker
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SOPRANO Elizabeth Bates Sarah Brailey Martha Cluver Mellissa Hughes Linda Lee Jones Melanie Russell
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Molly Netter Elena Williamson ALTO Melissa Attebury Luthien Brackett Eric Brenner Tim Keeler Clifton Massey Timothy Parsons TENOR Eric Dudley Andrew Fuchs Brian Giebler Timothy Hodges Owen McIntosh Stephen Sands BASS Joseph Beutel Dashon Burton Christopher Herbert Steven Hrycelak Thomas McCargar Edmund Milly Jonathan Woody
“This is a choir from heaven.” – The Times (London)
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As peerless interpreters of both early and new music, the GRAMMY®-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street has changed the realm of 21st-century vocal music, breaking new ground with its artistry described as “blazing with vigour…a choir from heaven” (The Times, London). This premiere ensemble, under the direction of Julian Wachner, can be heard in New York City and around the world in performances alternately described as “thrilling” (The New Yorker), “musically top-notch” (The Wall Street Journal), and “simply superb” (The New York Times). The choir leads the liturgical music on Sundays at Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel, while performing in Bach at One, Compline by Candlelight, and many other concerts and festivals throughout the year, often with the Trinity Baroque Orchestra and NOVUS NY. Critically acclaimed annual performances of Handel’s Messiah are part of its long and storied tradition, and attending the choir’s performances at Trinity’s annual Twelfth Night Festival has quickly become the holiday tradition of many New Yorkers as well. The choir has toured extensively throughout the United States, making appearances at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Berkeley Early Music Festival, BAM Next Wave Festival, and the Prototype Festival. The choir is also increasingly in demand internationally,
and recent seasons have seen performances at Paris’s Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and London’s Barbican Theatre. The choir has been featured with the Bang on a Can All-Stars, the New York Philharmonic, and the Rolling Stones on their 50th anniversary tour. In addition to their GRAMMY®-nominated Israel in Egypt CD, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street has released several recordings with Naxos, Musica Omnia, VIA Recordings, and Avie Records. Trinity’s long-term commitment to new music is evident in these recordings and in collaborations with living composers such as Du Yun, Paola Prestini, Ralf Gawlick, Elena Ruehr, and Julia Wolfe, whose 2015 Pulitzer Prize–winning work Anthracite Fields was recorded with the choir. The 2015-16 season promises to uphold Trinity’s long-standing reputation for conferring a “musical blessing” (The New York Times) on New York City and beyond.
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NOVUS NY is Trinity Wall Street’s contemporary music orchestra. Hailed by The New Yorker as “expert and versatile musicians,” NOVUS NY conquers a variety of new music repertoire meeting “every challenge with an impressive combination of discipline and imagination” (New York Classical Review). In its first season, NOVUS NY was featured in Trinity’s observance of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Of the week-long tribute The New York Times wrote, “If there is such a thing as a musical blessing, Trinity Church conferred it on a neighborhood and a city still in need of one.” The orchestra is an integral part of Trinity’s musical outreach, which has included such critically acclaimed series as Twelve in ’12, the Stravinsky Festival, Celebrating Britten, and Lamentatio. NOVUS NY recorded Elena Ruehr’s Averno for the Avie label and released a 3-CD set of Julian Wachner’s orchestral works on the Musica Omnia label. The orchestra was also featured in Ellen Reid’s Winter’s Child with the Prototype Festival as well as a concert reading of Du Yun’s new opera Angel’s Bone, which will have its staged world premiere in 2016. NOVUS NY recently made its milestone Carnegie Hall debut with Charles Ives’s Symphony No. 4 and Alberto Ginastera’s Turbae ad Passionem Gregorianam. In 2015-16, NOVUS NY will be featured in the world premiere of Trinity’s Mass Reimaginings commissions as well as performances with Opera America. NOVUS NY will also be an integral part of “Revolutions,” Trinity’s festival celebrating the centenary of Ginastera’s birth.
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THIRD THURSDAYS NOVUS NY is the resident orchestra for the Concerts at One “Third Thursdays” series, and will be featured artists throughout Trinity’s Ginastera Centennial Festival “Revolutions” this spring, which concludes with performances of Beethoven’s epic Ninth Symphony and Missa Solemnis as well as Ginastera’s Cello Concerto No. 1 and Psalm 150. See pages 18-27 for a full schedule.
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The creation of new work is vital ...to the life of any art form. This season, NOVUS NY brings its contemporary expertise to collaborations with two major arts organizations promoting new works for opera. “A perfect fit for the repertoire” (New York Classical Review), this new music orchestra will also be at the forefront of Trinity’s long-term commissioning project, Mass Reimaginings.
MASS REIMAGININGS Premiering during Trinity’s annual Twelfth Night Festival, Mass Reimaginings presents curator Daniel Felsenfeld’s mass setting on December 30, 2015, with NOVUS NY as the featured orchestra. See page 30 for additional details.
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TWELFTH NIGHT FESTIVAL: TIME’S ARROW
As described by New Music Box, this is “an opera about human trafficking which seamlessly merges medieval polyphony, indie rock, and even a bit of Darmstadtian modernism.”
NOVUS NY makes its Twelfth Night Festival debut as the contemporary component of “Time’s Arrow,” the juxtaposition of old and new music.
See page 12 for additional details.
See page 31 for additional details.
OPERA AMERICA New Opera Showcase returns to Trinity Church on January 18, 2016, at 8pm with NOVUS NY as the house orchestra. See page 12 for additional details. NOVUS NY has recorded for the Avie and Musica Omnia labels. See inside cover or visit trinitywallstreet.org/recordings for more information.
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“If one were asked to name one musician who came closest to composing without human flaw, I suppose general consensus would choose Johann Sebastian Bach.” — Aaron Copland
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“Now there is music from which a man can learn something.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (on hearing Bach motets in Leipzig)
Over the past five years, Trinity Wall Street has produced over 200 works of Johann Sebastian Bach. In the spring of 2016, Trinity’s ever-popular Bach at One series will complete the presentation of Bach’s entire monumental output of sacred vocal music. The New York Times praised the “dramatic vigor” of Bach at One performances as well as the “buoyant, elegantly shaped orchestral sound” and “lithe, immaculate and colorful singing of the chorus.” The cantatas are presented within a liturgical context, providing the most authentic experience for the listener. The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra perform these works with period instruments and baroque-style vocal technique, revealing the majesty and splendor of these aweinspiring sacred works to a 21st-century audience. Bach at One provides the perfect lunch-hour time of reflection and meditation. Come and experience the completion of Trinity’s first cycle of Bach at One, concluding in May of 2016.
Visit trinitywallstreet.org/bach-at-one for a complete listing of 2015-16 repertoire. Bach at One can be heard at WWFM
For the 2015-16 season, Compline by Candlelight features William Byrd’s Cantiones sacrae and the complete isorhythmic motets of Guillaume Dufay.
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The final service of the traditional monastic Ritual of the Hours, compline — from the Latin verb complere, meaning to complete— is one of the oldest services of the Christian Church. Darkened and candlelit, St. Paul’s Chapel is the ideal environment for this chant-based service featuring The Choir of Trinity Wall Street in intimate offerings of chant, improvisation, psalmody, and newly composed sacred works. By contrasting the old with the new, Compline by Candlelight inspires us to reflect by connecting with the past while refreshing us with the here and now.
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George Frideric Handel’s Messiah and Trinity have a long history —Trinity presented one of the first performances of the work in North America in 1770, and the GRAMMY®-nominated Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra are still widely regarded as peerless interpreters of the work. Year after year, Trinity’s rendering of Messiah continues to garner critics’ praise:
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“one of the best performances of its kind to be found in the city” – WQXR “…to experience the full, formidable range of ‘Messiah,’ from the furious flames of the ‘refiner’s fire’ to the delirious party of the finale, next year let Trinity be your guide” — Zachary Woolfe, The New York Times
HANDEL’S MESSIAH Wednesday, December 16, 2015, 7:30pm, Trinity Church | Broadway at Wall Street Thursday, December 17, 2015, 7:30pm, Alice Tully Hall | Lincoln Center Saturday, December 26, 2015, 5pm, Trinity Church | Broadway at Wall Street The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra Julian Wachner, conductor
The St. Matthew Passion is revered as one of the quintessential masterpieces of western classical music. Originally premiered on Good Friday in 1727, The Passion According to St. Matthew, BWV 244, is a dramatic integration of scripture, new poetry, and great hymns of the Lutheran tradition. Bach’s sublime setting creates a portrayal of the Passion narrative that is both profoundly human and divine.
J.S. BACH ST. MATTHEW PASSION Thursday, March 3, 2016, 7pm, Trinity Church | Broadway at Wall Street he Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra T Julian Wachner, conductor
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For the 2015-16 season, Trinity Wall Street presents a series of concerts featuring guest artists, including a residency with GRAMMY®nominated Seraphic Fire, a compelling rendering of Bach’s St. John Passion by Apollo’s Fire, and a performance of Martin’s dramatic oratorio Golgotha by the New Amsterdam Singers.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 7:30pm | Trinity Church SERAPHIC FIRE Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Dixit Dominus Jean-Joseph de Mondonville – Dominus Regnavit George Frideric Handel – Dixit Dominus Patrick Quigley, music director and conductor
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 7:30pm | Trinity Church SERAPHIC FIRE Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Requiem, K. 626 Patrick Quigley, music director and conductor
Saturday, March 12, 2016 8pm | St. Paul’s Chapel APOLLO’S FIRE J.S. Bach – St. John Passion, BWV 245 Jeanette Sorrell, music director and conductor
Sunday, March 13, 2016 3pm | Trinity Church NEW AMSTERDAM SINGERS Frank Martin – Golgotha Clara Longstreth, music director and conductor
Wednesday, April 20, 2016 7:30pm | Trinity Church SERAPHIC FIRE Johannes Brahms – Ein deutsches Requiem, op. 45 Patrick Quigley, music director and conductor
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Opera has an enormous capacity to convey the human experience, and Trinity Wall Street is pleased to bring that energy to its audiences through partnerships with the Prototype Festival and Opera America.
ANGEL’S BONE (World Premiere) January 6, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17 at 7pm | January 9 at 3pm
3LD Art & Technology Center 80 Greenwich Street, New York, NY Composer: Du Yun Librettist: Royce Vavrek Director: Michael McQuilken
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New Opera Showcase Monday, January 18, 2016, 8pm Trinity Church | Broadway at Wall Street Dream of the Red Chamber Huang Ruo Beowolf Hannah Lash The Invention of Moral Stewart Copeland A Thousand Splendid Suns Sheila Silver NOVUS NY Julian Wachner, music director and conductor
Featuring: The Choir of Trinity Wall Street NOVUS NY
Music Director: Julian Wachner
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Scenic Design: Matthew Saunders
Girl Angel: Jennifer Charles from Elysian Fields
Light Design: Yi Zhao
Boy Angel: Peter Tansits
Projection Design: Hannah Wasileski
Mrs. XE: Abigail Fischer Mr. XE: Kyle Pfortmiller
Choreography: Christy Lee
Angel’s Bone is a world premiere work of opera-theatre that follows the plight of two angels mysteriously come to Earth who are found, sheltered, manipulated, and imprisoned by a pair of mortals bent on worldly prosperity at all costs. The opera is a collaboration between Du Yun and Royce Vavrek— two of the most compelling young artists working in the field today—and is directed by multidisciplinary rising star Michael McQuilken. The work is scored for four soloists— coming disparately from the operatic, punk, folk, and musical theatre worlds—plus a chorus, electronics, and NOVUS NY under the music direction of Julian Wachner. Angel’s Bone melds chamber music, theatre, pop music, spoken word, opera, cabaret, and electronics, exploring the dark effects and motivations behind modern-day slavery and the human trafficking industry.
Trinity has established partnerships with prominent arts and community leaders and is dedicated to promoting emerging artists of all disciplines as well as new arts and cultural organizations. In the 2015-16 season, Trinity is collaborating with Opera America, National Sawdust, VisionIntoArt, Beth Morrison Projects, HERE, Prototype Festival, Newspeak, Norway’s 1B1, and will work with renowned composers Du Yun, Paola Prestini, Tim Brady, Tarik O’Regan, and David Lang.
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Friday, November 13, 2015, 8pm National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY “Great Beauty” Collaboration with 1B1, Paola Prestini, and David Lang David Lang – I lie David Lang – World to come IV Arvo Pärt - My Heart’s in the highlands Vladimir Martynov – The Beatitudes Zbigniew Preisner – Dies Irae John Taverner – The Lamb Arvo Pärt – Te Deum The Choir of Trinity Wall Street with 1B1 and NOVUS NY Julian Wachner, conductor
Wednesday, December 23, 2015, 7pm The Metropolitan Museum of Art David Lang – Little Match Girl Passion Benjamin Britten – A Ceremony of Carols The Choir of Trinity Wall Street Julian Wachner, conductor
AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS, BOSTON CHAPTER OPENING EVENT
Tuesday, September 8, 2015, 7:30pm St. Cecilia Parish, Boston, MA The Choir of Trinity Wall Street with the Marsh Chapel Choir and Majestic Brass Featuring Avi Stein and Forrest Eimold, organists Julian Wachner and Scott Allen Jarrett, conductors
AMERICAN CHORAL DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION NATIONAL CONVENTION
Friday, February 12, 2016, 8pm Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA The Choir of Trinity Wall Street Julian Wachner, conductor
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YOUTH MUSIC PROGRAMS Trinity Wall Street is the voice of youth in Lower Manhattan, providing a unique musical environment for young singers and instrumentalists alike. Trinity offers music education and performance opportunities for girls and boys ages 5-18. The various programs emphasize the social aspect of making music, bringing together collaborative neighborhood partners and teaching the importance of building bridges within our community.
TRINITY YOUTH CHORUS The Trinity Youth Chorus brings together talented youth ages 5 -18 from the five boroughs of New York City. Led by Melissa Attebury, Trinity Wall Street’s Associate Director of Music and the Arts, the choristers provide musical leadership at Sunday services alongside The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and offer concerts throughout the year. The chorus has performed Schubert’s Mass in G, Vivaldi’s Gloria, Britten’s Ceremony of Carols, Children’s Crusade, The Golden Vanity, Friday Afternoons, and a fully staged production of Noye’s Fludde. 2015 events have included the Prototype Festival, Ginastera’s Turbae ad Passionem Gregorianam at Carnegie Hall, and a performance with Bobby McFerrin. The chorus was featured in the films Love is Strange and Doubt and performed as part of Fashion Week 2014. The Trinity Youth Chorus also sang backup for Josh Groban and The Rolling Stones, and has appeared on CBS’s The Early Show and Public Radio International.
ISO TRINITY FLORENTINE ORCHESTRA Trinity’s Youth Orchestra consists of beginner to intermediate instrumentalists, with players from the New York metro area. Each rehearsal is run by experienced and dedicated professional musicians, and through arrangements of excellent repertoire, students fall in love with orchestral music, learning fundamental orchestral and instrumental techniques in the process. In the 2015-16 season, the orchestra will perform at Trinity Church, Symphony Space, and Opera 360 with the Metropolitan Opera Guild.
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MUSIC OUTREACH Trinity Wall Street is dedicated to promoting lifelong engagement with music through a comprehensive program of educational opportunities, cultural activities, and free access to Trinity’s acclaimed performances. Trinity carries out this vision through extensive educational youth programs and partnerships with underserved schools and communities throughout New York City. Through these efforts, Trinity provides free opportunities for all to experience music at the highest level of excellence.
FOSTERING MUSIC IN THE COMMUNITY Trinity supports youth from underserved communities in their musical, academic, social, and emotional development, primarily through the study, performance, and appreciation of diverse genres of music. Among its various outreach partners is Hour Children (an organization assisting incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and their children), for which Trinity provides teaching artists and music education programs. Trinity also partners with community centers such as the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning to stream live webcasts for the community in Queens, New York.
FOSTERING MUSIC IN SCHOOLS Trinity’s music outreach maintains a student-centered philosophy of education, catering to the individual goals of each school, while addressing core and educational standards. From Trinity’s teaching artists and webcasts to classroom curricula and live Concerts at One participation, Trinity provides highly interactive educational experiences to hundreds of students. Its engaging curricula is designed for all teachers, regardless of music background, while specific partnerships provide teaching artists to work within the schools to develop choral and instrumental ensembles. In addition, Trinity offers professional development and educational opportunities for teachers at partnering schools.
VISITING CHOIRS Trinity Wall Street’s Visiting Choir ministry welcomes hundreds of performers from around the world for informal concerts that are open to the public. Groups of all ages and backgrounds are given the opportunity to be a part of history by performing in St. Paul’s Chapel, New York City’s oldest public building in continuous use.
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“Trinity’s music – indispensable and unmissable” The New York Times
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All Concerts at One are at Trinity Church (Broadway at Wall Street), unless otherwise noted.
Thursdays at 1pm, Trinity continues its tradition of presenting incredible talent through Concerts at One. This series is free and open to all and has a rich history of bringing a wide array of music to Lower Manhattan since the 1920s. The 2015-16 season celebrates renowned and emerging professional musicians, as well as partnerships with major artists and arts organizations, performing a spectrum of works spanning almost 700 years.
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ith a focus on Trinity’s new outreach program W and partnerships with several underserved schools, Concerts at One this fall is aptly titled Eclectics: concerts that are as unique as they are engaging.
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“A CELEBRATION OF THE CITY” The Army’s oldest musical organization presents a diverse program of classical and patriotic works celebrating the beauty and strength of New York City, and those who protect both it and our nation. WEST POINT BAND AND GLEE CLUB
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Richard Strauss – Der Abend
Gustav Mahler – Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen Frank Martin – Mass for Double Choir THE CHOIR OF TRINITY WALL STREET Julian Wachner, conductor
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THIRD THURSDAYS WITH NOVUS NY Johannes Brahms – S erenade No. 2 in A Major, op. 16 Esa-Pekka Salonen – Five Images After Sappho
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“… fiddle music, from the devilish to the divine, played by a consummate musician whose style and repertoire sit somewhere between Nashville and Nairn.” — Folk World JEREMY KITTEL BAND: Jeremy Kittel, fiddle/violin Joshua Pinkham, mandolin Nathaniel Smith, cello Simon Chrisman, hammered dulcimer
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FOUNDERS: Brandon Ridenour, trumpet and piano Ben Russell, violin and vocals Hamilton Berry, cello and vocals Andrew Roitstein, bass
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“YOU & WHO”: RE-IMAGINING CHAMBER MUSIC THROUGH SONGWRITING
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“FREEDOM CONCERT”
Modeled after the “freedom concerts” presented by the late Coretta Scott King throughout her leadership in the civil rights movement, this concert will present poetry and prose along with a wide range of classical and contemporary music. A forum on freedom will follow the concert. Malcolm Merriweather, director
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“SACRED FEAST”
Trumpet master Thomas Bergeron’s genre-bending creativity impressed critics with his new album “Sacred Feast,” which recreates the music of Olivier Messiaen. For this performance he brings a ninepiece ensemble, combining a jazz quintet with a classical string quartet. THOMAS BERGERON JAZZ ENSEMBLE
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THIRD THURSDAYS WITH NOVUS NY John Luther Adams – Strange and Sacred Noise NOVUS NY featuring SANDBOX PERCUSSION: Jonathan Allen, Victor Caccese, Ian Rosenbaume, and Terry Sweeney
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Drawing from a broad range of influence, including Schubert’s Winterreise and compositions by jazz musicians John Lewis, Bill Evans, and Thad Jones, as well as familiar holiday songs, this program will paint a picture of the many moods of this special season. CHRIS PATTISHALL QUARTET
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“FROM BACH TO ROCK TO HIP HOP” This genre-defying group delivers “subversive humor and first-rate playing” (Wall Street Journal). Expect a program that includes classical, jazz, rock, hip-hop, salsa, and everything in between! PROJECT TRIO: Greg Patillo, flute Eric Stephenson, cello Peter Seymour, bass
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CANADIAN BRASS HOLIDAY CONCERT Celebrate the holidays with the “world’s most famous brass group.” Canadian Brass performs seasonal favorites along with classical brass standards in an entertaining afternoon of virtuoso playing and heartwarming humor. CANADIAN BRASS: Christopher Coletti & Caleb Hudson, trumpet Bernhard Scully, horn Achilles Liarmakopoulos, trombone Chuck Daellenbach, tuba
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CHRISTMAS EVE COMMUNITY CAROL SING
St. Paul’s Chapel, Broadway and Fulton Street
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Trinity presents a season-long festival of Alberto Ginastera in celebration of the Argentinian composer’s centenary. This spring, Concerts at One juxtaposes the third compositional periods of Ginastera and the great revolutionary Beethoven.
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Alberto Ginastera – Concerto for Strings, op. 33 John Corigliano – Voyage
Eskender Bekmambetov – “For Misha’s Gang,” Suite for small, regular, large, and extra large fiddles (World Premiere) CHAMBER ORCHESTRA KREMLIN Misha Rachlevsky, conductor
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Ludwig van Beethoven – Twelve Variations for Cello and Piano in G Major on Handel’s “See, the Conqu’ring Hero comes,” WoO 45 Alberto Ginastera – Sonata, op. 49 Richard Wilson – Motivations
Jeffrey Zeigler, cello and Pedja Muzijevic, piano
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Alberto Ginastera – Cantata para América mágica
NOVUS NY and THE CHOIR OF TRINITY WALL STREET Sarah Brailey, soprano Melissa Attebury, alto Steven Caldicott Wilson, tenor Joseph Beutel, bass Julian Wachner, conductor
“…warm, full-blooded and virtuosic playing with colorfully shaped, gleaming phrases.” —The New York Times on Chamber Orchestra Kremlin
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Johann Sebastian Bach – Cello Suite No.1 in G Major, BWV 1007 Benjamin Britten – Cello Suite No. 3, op.87 Alberto Ginastera – Puneña No. 2 “Hommage à Paul Sacher”, op. 45 Ashley Bathgate, cello
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Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet No. 15 in A Minor, op. 132 Alberto Ginastera – String Quartet No. 3 for Soprano and String Quartet, op. 40 ENSO QUARTET: Maureen Nelson, violin Ken Hamao, violin Melissa Reardon, viola Richard Belcher, cello Mellissa Hughes, soprano
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Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major “Hammerklavier”, op. 106 Alberto Ginastera – Piano Sonata No. 2, op. 53 Paavali Jumppanen, piano
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3RD THURSDAYS WITH NOVUS NY Gabriel Fauré – Requiem (1893 version)
Alberto Ginastera – Cantata Bomarzo, op. 32
NOVUS NY and THE CHOIR OF TRINITY WALL STREET Christopher Herbert, baritone Julian Wachner, conductor
“ Ms. [Ashley] Bathgate’s rich tone, fluid dynamics and imaginative phrasing captured the magic… an eloquent new-music interpreter.” —The New York Times
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Edgard Varese – Density 21.5
Alberto Ginastera – Puneña No.1, op. 41 (1973, left incomplete at the time of the composer’s death) Astor Piazzolla – Tango Etudes
Julian Wachner – Inverted Skies
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Claude Debussy – Syrinx
Alexandra Sopp, flute
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Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp Minor, op. 131 Alberto Ginastera – String Quartet No. 2, op. 26 BORROMEO STRING QUARTET: Nicholas Kitchen, violin Kristopher Tong, violin Mai Motobuchi, viola Yeesun Kim, cello
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Nicolas De Grigny – Veni Creator Spiritus
Maurice Duruflé – Prelude, Adagio and Chorale Variations on Veni Creator Alberto Ginastera – Variazioni e Toccata sopra Aurora lucis rutilat, op. 52 Chelsea Chen, organ
“Most artists can go to extremes when needed; then there are those who seem to positively thrive there— Caravaggio, Almodóvar, Nirvana. The Borromeo Quartet, too.” —Matthew Guerrieri, The Boston Globe
FINALE WEEK OF REVOLUTIONS 2015
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Ludwig van Beethoven – Missa Solemnis, op.123 Alberto Ginastera – Cello Concerto No.1, op.36 THE CHOIR OF TRINITY WALL STREET DOWNTOWN VOICES NOVUS NY Matt Haimovitz, cello Julian Wachner, conductor
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Ludwig van Beethoven – Piano Sonata No.32 in C Minor, op. 111 Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet No.16 in F Major, op.135 Alberto Ginastera – Piano Quintet, op.29 Vicky Chow, piano MOMENTA QUARTET: Emilie-Anne Gendron, violin Adda Kridler, violin Stephanie Griffin, viola Michael Haas, cello
May
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THURSDAY · 1PM
Richard Strauss – Metamorphosen
Alberto Ginastera – Glosse Sobre Temes De Pau Casals, op. 46 Knut Nystedt – Concerto Arctandriae, op. 128 1B1 Jan Bjøranger, conductor
“The Momenta players unleashed an utterly abstract, utterly beautiful sonic skyscape… An extraordinary musical experience.”
— The Washington Post
May
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FRIDAY · 1PM
Luciano Berio – Sequenza XI
Robert Beaser – Shenandoah
John Corigliano – Red Violin Caprices Eliot Fisk, guitar
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Alberto Ginastera – Sonata for Guitar, op. 47
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FINALE CONCERT
Ludwig Van Beethoven – Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, op.125 Alberto Ginastera – Psalm 150, op.5 THE CHOIRS OF TRINITY WALL STREET DOWNTOWN VOICES NOVUS NY 1B1 Julian Wachner, conductor
“…lovers of culture must always be vigilant about protecting what matters. And Trinity’s music — indispensable and unmissable — certainly does.” —The New York Times
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The diversity of Music and the Arts at Trinity Wall Street is expressed through the individuals who contribute their talents within the community. The Congregational Arts Committee celebrates artistic gifts, as both novices and accomplished artists participate together in classes, dance, theater, poetry, and other events, providing theological insights on spiritual, social, and moral issues. Events and performances take place throughout Lower Manhattan at Trinity Church, St. Paul’s Chapel, and the Parish Center. The three sub-committees of Congregational Arts—Lively Arts (including poetry and the Trinity Movement Choir), Visual Arts, and Allegro (music)—all serve a vital mission of galvanizing the downtown community through the arts.
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Downtown Voices is a new semi-professional choir at Trinity Wall Street made up of volunteer singers from the New York metro area and members of the professional Choir of Trinity Wall Street. Directed by Stephen Sands, the group begins its inaugural season in the fall of 2015, with performances featuring the works of Beethoven, Alberto Ginastera, Benjamin Britten, and James MacMillan.
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Trinity’s steeple is filled with bells—23 to be exact! In addition to 11 chiming bells that mark the hours, Trinity has the only set of 12 change-ringing bells in the United States, a gift from British businessman and philanthropist Martin “Dill” Faulkes in 2006. They are uniquely beautiful and require extensive training to ring. A full peal can last between three and four hours. Trinity’s change-ringing bells are rung for civic events and weddings, as well as every Sunday. New ringers are always welcome.
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Paola Prestini Mass Reimaginings is a major long-term commissioning project, curated by composer Daniel Felsenfeld. Six of today’s most diverse and compelling composers have each been invited to offer their own 21st-century take on the traditional mass, to be premiered by The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and new-music orchestra NOVUS NY, under the leadership of Julian Wachner. From 2015 through 2017, Trinity will present two concerts a year featuring masses by curator Daniel Felsenfeld, Netsayi, Paola Prestini, Jonathan Newman, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and Julian Wachner. In 2018, all six works will be presented within the context of Trinity’s multifaceted celebration of the 100th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein, including the late composer’s own reimagined trope on the Catholic Mass. Each mass will intersperse the five invariable portions of the Eucharistic liturgy— the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei—with newly commissioned text from a contemporary author of the composer’s choosing. The resulting works will be effective for concert and liturgical use in a variety of contexts, further expanding the universality of these ageless and ancient texts by contextualizing them within current intellectual struggles on the issues of economic equality, ecology, gender, race, and sexuality, as well as 21st-century developments in multiculturalism, ecumenism, and tolerance among the world’s systems of spirituality and faith.
DECEMBER 30, 2015, 5PM Trinity Church | Broadway at Wall Street Mass Reimaginings opens with Daniel Felsenfeld’s Astrophysical Mass during the Twelfth Night Festival.
JANUARY 21, 2016, 5PM Trinity Church | Broadway at Wall Street Netsayi will present her reimagined setting on January 21, 2016 at 6pm as part of the opening night of Trinity Institute’s Listen for a Change: Sacred Conversations for Racial Justice.
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TWELFTH NIGHT FESTIVAL: TIME’S ARROW DECEMBER 26, 2015 – JANUARY 6, 2016 Trinity Church and St. Paul’s Chapel
Boasting an “engrossing” and “enviable variety of repertory” (The New York Times), Trinity Wall Street’s Twelfth Night Festival returns in 2015-16 to celebrate the twelve days of the nativity with a full program of mostly free events. As Trinity has become an epicenter for both early and new music, this year’s festival, aptly subtitled “Time’s Arrow,” invokes the past as composers reach for the musical unknown. The juxtaposition of music spanning the past millennium—from Handel’s Messiah and Bach cantatas to the premieres of works by Daniel Felsenfeld and David Lang– is sure to have a lasting impact on returning and new concertgoers alike. This year’s festival features renowned early music and contemporary music groups including Tenet, GEMS, Clarion Music Society, Helicon, GEMAS, Lorelei Ensemble, and others. Highlights include performances by The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, Trinity Youth Chorus, NOVUS NY, and the new Downtown Voices, as well as a Time’s Arrow Festival Concert by New York Baroque Incorporated (NYBI), whose musicians will perform on modern and baroque instruments.
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Trinity Wall Street’s high definition video streaming ministry brings Trinity services and events to people around the globe. Through live and on-demand high definition webcasts available on desktop and mobile devices, Trinity’s worship services, concerts, arts events, conferences, and more are made accessible to countless individuals. This ministry also fosters music in New York City through outreach programs to public school classrooms and community centers such as the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. Trinity’s Media Production team operates 16 robotic cameras and delivers live webcasts six days a week, totaling more than 450 events per year. Trinity’s webcasting has won many awards for its distinctive work, including a New York Emmy Award for Outstanding Religious Programming, a Webby Award, a CINE Golden Eagle Award, and several Telly Awards. If you can’t make it to Trinity Church or St. Paul’s Chapel for a service or concert, attend online and join international audiences in enjoying the many programs Music & the Arts has to offer.
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