A preview by Betsy Schwarm After the Pilgrimage: The Journey Home – that’s a program title that one might interpret in several ways. Chronologically speaking, these late May performances by […]
Return and Restoration: A New Season with St. Martin’s Chamber Choir

By Betsy Schwarm In troubled times, music can be the perfect balm: soothing the soul and heartening one for the future. Alas that, for the past year and a half, […]
Duruflé Requiem

Held in such high esteem as one of the most profound of all choral works, Maestro Krueger has felt that performing the Maurice Duruflé Requiem requires a level of artistic […]
The Voice of Nature

St. Martin’s Chamber Choir Virtual Performance. Nature has inspired and spoken to a great variety of composers through the ages. At a time when many believe our earth to be […]
St. Martin’s Voices of Nature

Preview by Betsy Schwarm One full year into social distancing, many of us have wearied of gazing at computer screens. If, perchance, it would take a compelling reason to return […]
Aurora Borealis: Baltic Music

St. Martin’s Chamber Choir Virtual Performance. There must be something in the water of the Baltic Sea (or is it the Aurora Borealis?) to produce the incredible outpouring of choral […]
An Olde English Christmas: The Britten “Ceremony of Carols”

St. Martin’s Chamber Choir Virtual Performance. With its mystical Medieval texts, Benjamin Britten’s (1913-1976) beloved “Ceremony of Carols” for voices and harp will be the centerpiece of a concert featuring […]
In a Dark Chapel: The Byrd Mass for 4 voices

St. Martin’s Chamber Choir Virtual Performance. William Byrd (1543-1623) was forced to disguise his Roman Catholicism in Protestant England, and, though providing many choral works in English for Queen Elizabeth […]
High Praise: Music for Trebles and Organ

St. Martin’s Chamber Choir Virtual Performance. In addition to ethereal works for women’s voices and organ by Brahms and Mendelssohn, a small group of six women will perform the Mass […]
Tracing “The Way of St. James” in Song

A review by Marc Shulgold Whether by car, airplane, bus, train or bike, there’s something appealing about taking a trip. Usually, it’s for pleasure, visiting friends or relatives or simply […]
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