Wednesday, December 19, 2012

St. Jean Baptiste Church

All Bach New Year's Eve Concert

Monday, December 31 2012

at St. Jean Baptiste Roman Catholic Church
Lexington Avenue and 76th Street, Manhattan

Program features Orchestral Suite No. 3; Mass in F; the "Brandenburg" Concerto No. 4, and Cantatas Nos. 158 and 189, 

performed by the Amor Artis Chorus and Baroque Orchestra;
 Johannes Somary, music director
Cheryl Bensman Rowe, soprano
Jeffrey Dooley, countertenor
Patrick Romano, tenor
 John Ostendorf, bass

8 P.M. Tickets are $15. Information: (212) 874-4513.

 Conductor Stephen Somary and the Amor Artis Chamber Choir and Ensemble perform a festive all-Bach New Year's Eve concert in the lovely St. Jean Baptiste Church in New York City.

St. John the Divine

St. John the Divine.  This will truly be sublime.


New Year’s Eve Concert for Peace, 2012


Monday, December 31 at 7:00PM 



at The Cathedral of St. John the Divine

1047 Amsterdam Avenue

at 112th Street
New York, NY 10025




New Year's Eve Concert for Peace
December 31, 2012 at 7pm



Cathedral Choir and Orchestra

Wolfgang Mozart, Coronation Mass
Ludwig van Beethoven, Choral Fantasy
Felix Mendelssohn, Verleigh uns Frieden (Grant us Peace)
Anton Bruckner, motets

Harry Smith, host
Judy Collins, guest artist

Jamet Pittman, soprano
Kirsten Sollek, contralto
Steven Fox, tenor
Peter Stewart, baritone



Founded by Leonard Bernstein in 1984, the annual New Year's Eve Concert for Peace is a signature Cathedral event, gathering old friends and new for over a quarter of a century. The music, the candles, and the spirit of peace send audiences out into the chill January night feeling connected, uplifted, and ready to communicate and uphold that spirit.

Trinity Church

Well known for their concert series at Trinity Church, this will be a classic.


Parthenia a quartet of viols
"As It Fell on a Holie Eve- Music for an Elizabethan Christmas"

Thursday, Dec 27 7:30 pm

at Trinity Church 
89 Broadway New York, New York

Rosamud Morley, Treble Viol
Lawrence Lipnik, Tenor Viol
Beverly Au, Bass Viol
Lisa Terry, Bass Viol

Guest Artist 
Julianne Baird, Soprano
7:30pm Tickets $25-General Admission (212)-866-0468 
Gotham Early Music Scene and Trinity Wall Street Church present Parthenia and soprano Julianne Baird in a glittering array of songs, dances and carols from Elizabethan England. Along with music by Thomas Morley, Anthony Holborne, Thomas Ravenscroft, Dr. John Bull and Tobias Hume, this concert will feature a wide variety of music by the celebrated master composer of England’s Golden Age, William Byrd.

Our Lady of Pompei Church

If you are downtown and in the little Italy area, you can find a little respite in the hustle and bustle at this concert.


Memorare

Saturday, Dec 29th 7:30pm
at Our Lady of Pompei Church
25 Carmine St. New York, New York

 The Lorenzo Ruiz Choir of New York and the BNP New York Choir's bring New York city a concert tribute to the Blessed Mother and promises to be a joyous festival of Christmas carols and love songs. 

7:30 PM tickets are $20-$500 (718)-456-7314

Proceeds from the concert will go to BNP New York's project of sending seminarians to school in the Philippines. This project which started on 1988 has so far produced 4 seminarians who were ordained as priests. Currently, they have one seminarian who, with God's blessings, will be ordained on 2014.
Hopefully we can add more seminarians to this program. Donations start at $20 which are tax deductible.

Saint Peter's Lutheran Church

There are some amazing concerts this holiday season and we are posting several of our fav's.  I love the ethereal nature of the repertoire below and you can't beat the price.  A great lunch time treat.

Vox Fidelis- 
Christmas in the High Renaissance

Thursday, Dec 27th 2012 1:15pm

at Saint Peter's Lutheran Church
619 Lexington Ave. New York, New York

Timothy Smith, director
Vox Fidelis Early Music Ensemble

1:15pm Free Concert 

Vox Fidelis specializes in sacred Renaissance polyphony, its cultivation and promotion, and its place in traditional sacred liturgy. They will be singing festive selections by Praetorius, Palestrina, and more to celebrate Christmas Renaissance style!

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Turntable Tuesday

by Ted Ganung

For this week I bring a very special debut release "Twisted Trees" from LA based artist, Tate Hall. Twisted Trees is an epic journey through time and space that marks an escape from reality. The album is meant to be listened to from start to finish as one seamless piece of music evolving from track to track. Tate Hall, an already accomplished Sound Engineer, shows his strength in his debut release with his signature clean and ultra refined production style. Below I have included a link to listen to the album, for more information on Tate Hall click here Tate Hall Music