The Greenwich Choral Society typically presents three or four different choral music programs during its season. An annual highlight is the traditional Christmas Concert, held at Christ Church, Greenwich in December.

The GCS 2010-2011 season includes:

Christmas in Germany
Celebrate Christmas with J.S. Bach and family as we present the Missa (Kyrie and Gloria) from J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor as well as works by Johann Michael and Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach. A stirring collection of traditional German carols and lullabies, all sung in the glow of candlelight, will delight the ear with the sweet sounds of the season.

Saturday, December 4, 2010 – 2:00 and 4:30 PM
Sunday, December 5, 2010 – 4:30 PM
Christ Church Greenwich
254 East Putnam Ave, Greenwich, CT

Directions

Of War and Peace

"Ring out the thousand wars of old
Ring in the thousand years of peace"
Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1850

Come together with the Greenwich Choral Society in a special choral meditation on the cost of war and the hope for peace. Inspired by the conflict and frailty of the human condition, this concert will offer compelling and provocative works by Samuel Barber, Benjamin Britten, Karl Jenkins, Vincent Persichetti, Veljo Tormis, and Ralph Vaughan Williams while featuring Franz Joseph Haydn’s Mass in Time of War (“Paukenmesse”), written in 1796 as Napoleon's army was advancing on Austria.

Saturday, March 5, 2011 – 2:00 and 4:30 PM
Christ Church Greenwich
254 East Putnam Ave, Greenwich, CT

Directions

Dvořák: Stabat Mater
Oratorio for Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra, op. 58

With the Westchester Choral Society (Frank Nemhauser, Music Director)

Antonín Dvořák was among many composers, including Palestrina, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Rossini and Poulenc, to set the Stabat Mater to music, but his version stands out with its extraordinary spiritual intensity and emotional range, as well as a strongly symphonic quality. It is a huge work – for orchestra, chorus and soloists – but it is the expressive beauty of Dvorák’s setting that strikes the listener; the sheer gloriousness of color and movement that make this work so hugely uplifting.

The shifts of mood from grief and near despair to hope and faith run throughout the ten movements, and culminate in the ecstasy of the final Quando corpus morietur, with its overwhelming confidence. In the dying minutes of the Stabat Mater, the orchestra goes silent and the choir breaks out unaccompanied into an amazing hymn of praise. The orchestra returns to accompany the choir for the final Amen culminating in one of the most powerful declarations of faith in the history of music.

Saturday, May 21, 2011 - 8PM
Palace Theatre, 61 Atlantic Street, Stamford, CT 06901
Call the Palace Theatre directly for tickets to this performance at 203-325-4466.

Directions

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