RECENT PERFORMANCES & EVENTS
MODfest 2024 January 25-February 3, 2024
A festival of contemporary music, film, dance, and drama.
Christine Howlett & Tom Pacio, co-directors
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Saturday, February 24, 2024, 4:00 PM | Illuminare: Darkness to Light
Featuring works by American composers Elizabeth Alexander, Elaine Hagenberg, and Jake Runestad. Greenwich Choral Society, Greenwich High School, Performing Arts Center
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Saturday, April 20, 2024, 4:00 PM | Transcendence and Triumph
Featuring Vaughan Williams' Serenade to Music, Gjeilo's Luminous Night of the Soul, and Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass. Greenwich Choral Society, Greenwich High School, Performing Arts Center
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Saturday, May 4, 2024, 7:00 PM | Handel's Dixit Dominus HWV 232
Music of Handel, Elizabeth Alexander, and B.E. Boykin
Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir, Vassar College Chapel
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Sunday, June 23, 4:00 PM | Bachfest 2024
Music of Buxtehude and Schütz, and Bach's O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe BWV 34, Triple Concerto in A minor BWV 1044, and Gloria in excelsis Deo BWV 191
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2023
Saturday, January 7, 2023, 2:00 PM | CMEA Eastern Region High School Festival
Treble Choir, Christine Howlett, conductor, University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Saturday, March 4, 2023, 4:00 PM | Ulster Country Music Educators Association | All-County Chorus, conductor
Saturday, April 1, 2023, 3:00 PM | Sounds of Earth: Resilient Voices
Premiere of EARTHSONGS by Shavon Lloyd, featuring Cappella Festiva Choirs. Projections by Rick Jones.
Vassar Chapel. Free and open to the public.
Saturday, April 1, 2023, 8:00 PM | Gloria RV 589: Antonio Vivaldi
Vassar College Women's Chorus with orchestra. Skinner Hall of Music. Free and open to the public.
Saturday, April 22, 2023: 7:00 PM |"Mozart's Last Word": Pre-concert talk by Kathryn Libin, Associate Professor.
8:00 PM - REQUIEM. Vassar College Choir with orchestra. Skinner Hall of Music. Free & open to the public.
Saturday, May 13, 2023, 3:00 PM | Resonant Reflections
Featuring Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Margaret Bonds, Eliza Gilkyson, Ola Gjeilo, Eric Whitacre, and more.
Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir. Christ Episcopal Church. Tickets at cappellafestiva.org.
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Saturday, November 4, 8:00 PM | Pergolesi's Stabat Mater & Side Road (premiere) by Caroline Shaw.
Vassar College Treble Chorus & Choir, Skinner Hall of Music, Vassar College
Saturday, November 11, 8:00 PM | Brahms' Neue Liebeslieder & Schubert's Mass in G
Vassar College Choir, Skinner Hall of Music, Vassar College
Sunday, December 3, 7:00 PM | A Service of Lessons and Carols
Vassar College Choirs & Cappella Festiva, Vassar College Chapel ​
Saturday, December 9, 2:30 PM and 5:00 PM | Truth, Light, and Serenity
Featuring Vivaldi's Magnificat and Mozart's Vesperae de Solennes Confessore
Greenwich Choral Society & Orchestra, Christ Church Greenwich, Greenwich, CT
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Sunday, December 10, 4:00 PM | Truth , Light, and Serenity
Featuring Vivaldi's Magnificat and Mozart's Vesperae de Solennes Confessore
Greenwich Choral Society & Orchestra, First Congregational Church of Greenwich, Old Greenwich, CT
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Thursday, October 13, 2022, 5:00 PM | Distinguished Alumnae Achievement Award: Meryl Streep '71
Performance by the Vassar College Choir & Women's Chorus, Vassar College Chapel, Poughkeepsie, NY
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Saturday, November 5, 2022, 8:00 PM | EINHORN: VOICES OF LIGHT
Hudson Valley Philharmonic & Vassar College Choir, Bardavon, Poughkeepsie, NY
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Saturday, November 12, 2022, 8:00 PM | LOVE ARRIVES
Vassar College Women's Chorus, Skinner Hall, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
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Saturday, November 19, 2022, 2:00 PM | Love is love is love is love
Cappella Festiva Chamber, Treble, and Cor Capriccio Choirs,
Christ Episcopal Church, Poughkeepsie, NY
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Saturday, December 3, 2022, 3:00 PM | HANDEL'S MESSIAH
Danbury Concert Chorus & Orchestra, First Congregation Church, Danbury, CT
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Sunday, December 4, 2022, 7:00 PM | A Service of Lessons and Carols
Vassar College Choir, Women's Chorus, Chamber Choir,
Cappella Festiva Chamber, Treble, & Cor Capriccio Choirs.
Vassar College Chapel, Poughkeepsie, NY.
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Saturday, December 17, 2022, 2:00 PM | HANDEL'S MESSIAH
Hudson Valley Philharmonic & Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir, Bardavon, Poughkeepsie, NY
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