Modeled on the “Madrigal Comedies” of the Renaissance, Gian Carlo Menotti’s “The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore” tells the story of a poet who keeps the mythical creatures of the title as pets, which each become fashionable in their turn but are then discarded by the residents of the poet’s town. The entire piece […]

Modeled on the “Madrigal Comedies” of the Renaissance, Gian Carlo Menotti’s “The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore” tells the story of a poet who keeps the mythical creatures of the title as pets, which each become fashionable in their turn but are then discarded by the residents of the poet’s town. The entire piece […]

The great Romantic era Czech pianist and composer Carl Czerny (1791-1857, a student of Beethoven and teacher of Liszt) made a reputedly difficult 4-hand piano arrangement of the Mozart Requiem that had been lost for almost 200 years. This manuscript was recently rediscovered in Slovakia, and will receive its Denver area premiere by twelve select St. […]

The great Romantic era Czech pianist and composer Carl Czerny (1791-1857, a student of Beethoven and teacher of Liszt) made a reputedly difficult 4-hand piano arrangement of the Mozart Requiem that had been lost for almost 200 years. This manuscript was recently rediscovered in Slovakia, and will receive its Denver area premiere by twelve select St. […]

The great Romantic era Czech pianist and composer Carl Czerny (1791-1857, a student of Beethoven and teacher of Liszt) made a reputedly difficult 4-hand piano arrangement of the Mozart Requiem that had been lost for almost 200 years. This manuscript was recently rediscovered in Slovakia, and will receive its Denver area premiere by twelve select St. […]

St. Martin’s Chamber Choir presents “A Bavarian Christmas: Die Geburt Christi of Heinrich von Herzogenberg” One of Denver’s favorite choral traditions, the St. Martin’s holiday concert, this year features the beautiful Christmas Oratorio Die Geburt Christi (The Nativity of Christ) by Heinrich von Herzogenberg (1843-1900). Modeled on the passions and cantatas of Bach, it tells […]

St. Martin’s Chamber Choir presents “A Bavarian Christmas: Die Geburt Christi of Heinrich von Herzogenberg” One of Denver’s favorite choral traditions, the St. Martin’s holiday concert, this year features the beautiful Christmas Oratorio Die Geburt Christi (The Nativity of Christ) by Heinrich von Herzogenberg (1843-1900). Modeled on the passions and cantatas of Bach, it tells […]

St. Martin’s Chamber Choir presents “A Bavarian Christmas: Die Geburt Christi of Heinrich von Herzogenberg” One of Denver’s favorite choral traditions, the St. Martin’s holiday concert, this year features the beautiful Christmas Oratorio Die Geburt Christi (The Nativity of Christ) by Heinrich von Herzogenberg (1843-1900). Modeled on the passions and cantatas of Bach, it tells […]

St. Martin’s Chamber Choir presents “Chant: Mystery and Mysticism: The Symphonie des Mysterès of Joaquin Nin-Culmell” In 1996 the men of St. Martin’s, together with organist Richard Robertson, made the premiere recording of Spanish composer Joaquin Nin-Culmell’s Symphonie des Mysterès, in the presence of the composer. A student of Dukas and de Falla, and inspired […]

St. Martin’s Chamber Choir presents “Chant: Mystery and Mysticism: The Symphonie des Mysterès of Joaquin Nin-Culmell” In 1996 the men of St. Martin’s, together with organist Richard Robertson, made the premiere recording of Spanish composer Joaquin Nin-Culmell’s Symphonie des Mysterès, in the presence of the composer. A student of Dukas and de Falla, and inspired […]

St. Martin’s Chamber Choir presents “St. Mark Passion of Charles Wood” In 1920, Eric Millner-White, then Dean of King’s College, Cambridge (and famous for introducing the celebrated Lessons and Carols service there in 1918), proposed to Charles Wood, organist of Gonville and Caius College, the composition of a work based on the Gospel of St. […]

St. Martin’s Chamber Choir presents “St. Mark Passion of Charles Wood” In 1920, Eric Millner-White, then Dean of King’s College, Cambridge (and famous for introducing the celebrated Lessons and Carols service there in 1918), proposed to Charles Wood, organist of Gonville and Caius College, the composition of a work based on the Gospel of St. […]

St. Martin’s Chamber Choir presents “St. Mark Passion of Charles Wood” In 1920, Eric Millner-White, then Dean of King’s College, Cambridge (and famous for introducing the celebrated Lessons and Carols service there in 1918), proposed to Charles Wood, organist of Gonville and Caius College, the composition of a work based on the Gospel of St. […]

St. Martin’s Chamber Choir presents “Short Stories in Song: ” Short Stories in Song features a moving collection of choral works, each telling its own miniature story. Partsongs by Holst and Vaughan Williams, Kodaly’s “Jesus and the Traders,” a gorgeous setting of Thomas Hardy’s poem “The Choirmaster’s Burial” by modern Swedish composer Mårten Jansson, and […]

St. Martin’s Chamber Choir presents “Short Stories in Song: ” Short Stories in Song features a moving collection of choral works, each telling its own miniature story. Partsongs by Holst and Vaughan Williams, Kodaly’s “Jesus and the Traders,” a gorgeous setting of Thomas Hardy’s poem “The Choirmaster’s Burial” by modern Swedish composer Mårten Jansson, and […]

To say “Christmas Carol” these days is inevitably to think of the thrilling and beautiful arrangements that Sir David Willcocks, who died in September 2015, wrote when he was the organist-choirmaster at King’s College, Cambridge and later director of the Royal College of Music. Paying tribute to this giant of the 20th century choral world, […]

To say “Christmas Carol” these days is inevitably to think of the thrilling and beautiful arrangements that Sir David Willcocks, who died in September 2015, wrote when he was the organist-choirmaster at King’s College, Cambridge and later director of the Royal College of Music. Paying tribute to this giant of the 20th century choral world, […]