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This city of stunning historic and contemporary contrasts is the perfect setting for a program that juxtaposes Mozart’s timeless Requiem with
Bernstein’s jazzy and bold Chichester Psalms, set to a text in Hebrew.
Responding to the hate crime murder of young Matthew Shepard, acclaimed conductor and composer Craig Hella Johnson created a compassionate and ultimately hopeful musical response. This fusion oratorio incorporates a
variety of musical styles into a unified whole with settings of soulful texts by poets including Hildegard of Bingen, Lesléa Newman, Rumi, as well as passages from Matt’s personal journal, newspaper reports, and more.
A dream program for the choral-orchestral music aficionado. Haydn’s stirring masterpiece, the Lord Nelson Mass, will be paired with Brahms’ transcendent Nänie and Jake Runestad’s luminous and colorful Into the Light, with texts by Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Helen Keller, among others.
Generations of choristers have sung the works of iconic composer Alice Parker. This long weekend workshop in The Berkshires is the perfect location to explore her choral legacy—from the early Robert Shaw arrangements through her original compositions.
Sing in one of America’s most historic musical settings on Memorial Day Weekend! Join newly-appointed BCI Artistic Director Anthony Trecek-King for a program inspired by choral music for piano four-hands including the Brahms Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes, Copland’s The Promise of Living, and exciting music of Handel, Hagenberg, and Shank.
To commemorate Bruckner’s 200th birthday, we’ll perform his monumental
Te Deum for chorus and orchestra, which premiered in this very hall in 1886. The program also includes Schubert’s energetic Magnificat and Elgar’s heartfelt The Music Makers.
Eugene Rogers, Director of Choirs at the University of Michigan and Artistic Director of The Washington Chorus, makes his BCI debut with a program offering a powerful affirmation of the human experience and the search for justice and peace.
Epic and majestic, A Sea Symphony takes full chorus and orchestra on a voyage of the soul, set to words of Walt Whitman. Joe Miller, Professor of Conducting and Director of Choral Studies at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, returns to BCI to lead this Vaughan Williams program, which also includes the Five Mystical Songs.
Sing Verdi’s towering choral masterpiece with full orchestra in the majestic Teatro Verdi, one of Florence’s most historic theaters (located on Via Giuseppe Verdi itself, just steps from the Piazza di Santa Croce). Heinz Ferlesch, Artistic Director of Vienna Singakademie, will lead his seventh BCI concert.
For information on older programs, view or download our chronological list of all programs since our founding in 1982.