2022–23

TO THE HANDS

Saturday, March 11, 2023 — 5:00 p.m.
Emmanuel Church, Back Bay

Back Bay Chorale
Chamber Orchestra
Angelina Savoia, harp
Robert Schulz, marimba
Emily Isaacson conducting

BACH
Komm, Jesu, Komm, BWV 229

BURHANS
Super Flumina Babylonis

PALESTRINA
Super flumina Babylonis

KIRKLAND SNIDER
Mass for the Endangered: Credo

BUXTEHUDE
Membra Jesu Nostri (excerpts)

SHAW
To the Hands

A BOSTON CHRISTMAS

Friday, December 16 • 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 17 • 4:00 p.m.
Old South Church, Boston

Back Bay Chorale
Helios Brass Quintet
Justin Thomas Blackwell, organ
Thomas Schmidt, timpani
Jonathan Mott, conducting

2021–22

A BOSTON CHRISTMAS

Friday, December 17 — 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 18 — 4:00 p.m.
Old South Church, Boston

Back Bay Chorale
Majestic Brass
Herbert S. Jones, conductor and composer
Justin Thomas Blackwell, organ
Henry Weinberger, piano
Robert Schulz, percussion
Katherine Chan conducting
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting

Come, let us go again, Carson Cooman
Bogoroditse Devo raduisya, Arvo Pärt
Verbum Caro Factum est, Hans Leo Hassler
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, Michael Praetorius
In dulci jubilo, Robert Lucas de Pearsall
Carol: Angels we have heard on high, arr. Julian Wachner
The Bell Carol, Philip Ledger
Bethlehem, William Billings
O little town, arr. Bob Chilcott
Carol: It came upon the midnight clear, Mack Wilberg
Alchemy, Karen P. Thomas (2020 Back Bay Chorale co-commission)
Mary’s Boy Child, Jester Hairston
My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord, arr. Herbert S.
Jones Christ is Born Today, Herbert S. Jones
When the song of the angels, Paul Ayres
Carol: Joy to the world, Mack Wilberg

LIVING GOLD: THE POWER OF VOICE

March 5, 2022 — 1:00 p.m.
Boston Public LIbrary — Central Library in Copley Square

Members of Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
Members of Bridges ESL Chorus
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting

BACH
Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV39

THOMAS
Alchemy

BRAHMS: EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM

Friday, May 6, 2022 — 8:00 p.m.
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge

Maya Bloom, soprano
Ryne Cherry, baritone
Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting

THOMAS
Alchemy
orchestration by Patrick T. Waters (April, 2022)
2020 Back Bay Chorale co-commission, premiere of orchestrated version

BRAHMS
Ein deutsches Requiem, op. 45

2020–21

The Complete Chorister

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, Back Bay Chorale conducted its season virtually with "The Complete Chorister," an interactive set of Zoom-based sessions.

Polyphonic Intimacy: An Introduction to The Complete Chorister
September 14, 2020

Loren Ludwig PhD
Performer Scholar

From Mourning to Joy: The promise of renewal in Brahms's Ein deutsches Requiem
September 21, 28, 2020

Scott Allen Jarrett
Artistic Director, Back Bay Chorale

Choral Passport: New Zealand
October 5, 2020

Prof. Karen Lesley Grylls
Head of Choral Studies, University of Auckland

"More diction, please!": A closer look at the history of text setting
October 12, 2020

Brett Kostrzewski
BBC Program Annotator, Boston University

Choral Passport: South Africa
October 19, 2020

Dr. Mollie Stone
University of Chicago

Consonance and Dissonance How music creates emotion
October 26, 2020

Scott Metcalfe
Artistic Director, Blue Heron

Music’s Mirror of the Mind: Dramatic impact in Handel's choruses
November 2, 9 2020

Scott Allen Jarrett
Artistic Director, Back Bay Chorale

Choral Passport: Latin America
November 16

Ahmed Anzaldua
Director of BorderCrosSing

Choral Passport: Scandinavia & The Baltics
November 30, 2020

Prof. Heather McGlaughin Garbes
University of Washington

Of Partridges and Pear Trees: Carols through the ages
December 7, 14 2020

Scott Allen Jarrett
Artistic Director, Back Bay Chorale

Glory Hallelujah!: The History of Boston's Handel and Haydn Society
January 11, 2021

Teresa Neff, PhD
Senior Lecturer in History/Culture at MIT

Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach: Brich dem Hungrigen dein Brot, BWV 39
January 18, 2021

Reginald Mobley
Countertenor

Britten War Requiem, Part 1
January 25, 2021

James Schmidt, PhD
Professor, Boston University

Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach: Die Elenden sollen essen, BWV 75February 1 2021

Reginald Mobley

Why We Sing: Digital Choir Project with ESL Chorus, I
February 8, 2021

Scott Allen Jarrett and Katherine Chan, Back Bay Chorale

I, Too, Sing America: Part 1 (1619–1945)
February 15, 2021

Anthony Trecek-King
Associate Professor of Choral Music and Director of Choral Activities, The Harrt School, University of Hartford

I, Too, Sing America: Part 2 (Civil Right Era)
February 22, 2021

Anthony Trecek-King
Associate Professor of Choral Music and Director of Choral Activities, The Harrt School, University of Hartford

Why We Sing: Digital Choir Project with ESL Chorus, II
March 1, 2021

Scott Allen Jarrett and Katherine Chan, Back Bay Chorale

Why We Sing: Canticum Novum Digital Choir Project, I
March 15, 2021

Scott Allen Jarrett and Katherine Chan, Back Bay Chorale

Leonard Bernstein: A New American Song
March 22, 2021

Julian Wachner, Director of Music, Trinity Church Wall Street

Robert Shaw: Man of Many Voices
March 29, 2021

Ann Howard Shaw
Professor emerita of Music, Boston University

Why We Sing: Canticum Novum Digital Choir Project, I!
March 15, 2021

Karen P. Thomas
Artistic Director and Conductor, Seattle Pro Musica

Britten War Requiem, Part 2
April 12, 2021

James Schmidt, PhD
Professor, Boston University

Britten War Requiem, Part 3
April 26, 2021

James Schmidt, PhD
Professor, Boston University

Cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach: Man singet mit Freuden, BWV 149
May 3, 2021

Reginald Mobley
Countertenor

Season Wrapup: Why We Sing
May 10, 2021

Scott Allen Jarrett
Artistic Director, Back Bay Chorale

2019–20

MOZART & HANDEL

Saturday, November 9, 2019 — 8:00 p.m.
Saint Cecilia Church, 18 Belvidere Street Boston

Sherezade Panthaki, soprano
Kim Leeds, alto
Lawrence Wiliford, tenor
Dana Whiteside, bass

Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting

HANDEL
Zadok the Priest, HWV 258

MOZART
Mass in C major (Coronation Mass), K. 317

HANDEL
Ode for Saint Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76

A BOSTON CHRISTMAS

Friday, December 20, 2019 — 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 21, 2019 • 4:00 p.m.
Old South Church, Boston

Justin Thomas Blackwell, organ
Robert Schulz, percussion
Back Bay Chorale Majestic Brass

Handel and Haydn Society Youth Chorus of Sopranos and Altos
Alyson Greer Espinosa, conductor, Michael Becker, collaborative pianist
Katherine Chan conducting

Hodie, (fromA Ceremony of Carols), Benjamin Britten
Carol: O come, all ye faithful, arr. David Willcocks
O Radiant Dawn, James MacMillan
In the bleak midwinter, Harold Darke
My Lord has come, Will Todd
The Lamb, Kim André Arnesen
Lully, lulla, lullay, Philip W.J. Stopford
Carol: Ding, dong, merrily on high, arr. Charles Wood
The Virgin Mary had a baby boy, Traditional Trinidadian Carol arr. Stephen Hatfield
Ave Regina coelorum, Giovanni Legrenzi
Bogoroditse Devo (Ave Maria), Sergei Rachmaninov, arr. Lucyanne Gordon
Snowforms, R. Murray Schafer
I'll Fly Away, arr. Craig Courtney
What sweeter music, Hywel Davies
Silent Night, Stephen Paulus
Carol: Hark! the herald-angels sing, arr. Julian Wachner
Hope for Resolution, arr. Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory
Hallelujah! (from Messiah), G. F. Handel

THE GOLDEN AGE OF BRASS

Saturday, March 7, 2020 — 8:00 p.m.
Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street Boston

Sarah Yanovitch, soprano
MaryRuth Lown, soprano
Douglas Dodson, countertenor
Stefan Reed, tenor
Ethan DePuy, tenor
Jason Steigerwalt, bass
Back Bay Chorale
Dark Horse Consort
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting

GABRIELI
Jubilate Deo à 8

SCHEIN
Nu danket alle Gott

GABRIELI
Canzon III à 6, C197

SCHÜTZ
Selig sind die Toten, SWV 391

MONTEVERDI
Deus in adjutorium and Dixit Dominus, from the Vespers of 1610

SCHÜTZ
Musikalische Exequien, SWV 279–81

MENDELSSOHN: ELIJAH

Postponed due to COVID-19

2018–19

SEVEN JOYS

Saturday, November 10, 2018 — 8:00 p.m.
Emmanuel Church, Boston

Back Bay Chorale
*Back Bay Chorale Ensemble
†Majestic Brass
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
^Katherine Chan conducting

GABRIELI
Plaudite, psallite, jubilate Deo omnis terra

SHAW
Seven Joys
Co-commissioned by the Back Bay Chorale and the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia.

After a Storm
First Interlude
Ratio
Second Interlude
What Seems Like Joy
Third Interlude
Blackbird Etude

INTERMISSION

GÓRECKI
Totus tuus, op. 60

BRITTEN
Five Flower Songs, op. 47
To Daffodils
The Succession of the Four Sweet Months
Marsh Flowers
The Evening Primrose
Ballad of Green Broom

BARBER
Agnus Dei (transcribed from Adagio for Strings, op. 11)

ELGAR
They are at rest (1909)

DOVE
In beauty may I walk (2001)

A BOSTON CHRISTMAS

Thursday, December 20, 2018 — 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 22, 2018 — 4:00 p.m.
Old South Church, Boston

Back Bay Chorale
Majestic Brass
Robert Schulz, percussion
Justin Thomas Blackwell, organ
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting

O come, O come, Emmanuel. arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw
Carol: O come, all ye faithful, arr. David Willcocks
I
Hail! gladdening Light, Charles Wood
O magnum mysterium, Tomás Luis de Victoria
O Heiland, reiß die
Himmel auf, op. 74, no. 2, Johannes Brahms
II
Carol: It came upon the midnight clear, arr. Mack Wilberg
Bogoroditse Devo, Arvo Pärt
Sanctus, Jan Sandström
Ave, maris stella, Edvard Grieg
III
Carol: Angels we have heard on high, arr. Julian Wachner
Two Christmas Anthems, William Billings
Slava v vishnih Bogu (from the All-Night Vigil), Sergei Rachmaninoff
A Lullaby/Away in a manger, arr. Thomas Bold
IV
Carol of the Stranger, Abbie Betinis
BRIDGES:
Our Music in the Community
I Started out Singing, Jocelyn Hagen
V
O Holy Night, arr. Dudley Buck
Weihnachten, op. 79, no. 1, Felix Mendelssohn
Carol: Hark! the herald-angels sing, arr. Willcocks
Hallelujah! (from Messiah), G. F. Handel

RACHMANINOFF: VESPERS

Saturday, March 9, 2019 — 8:00 p.m.
St. Paul’s Church, Harvard Square, Cambridge

Elizabeth Eschen, mezzo-soprano
Stefan Reed, tenor
Back Bay Chorale
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting

BACH: MASS IN B MINOR

Sunday, May 19, 2019 — 3:00 p.m.
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge

Sarah Yanovitch, soprano I
Sonja DuToit Tengblad, soprano II
Clara Osowski, mezzo-soprano
Patrick Muehleise, tenor
Edmund Milly, bass-baritone
Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting

2017–18

UNFINISHED MASTERPIECES

Saturday, October 28, 2017 — 8:00 p.m.
New England Conservatory’s Jordan Hall, Boston

Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Margaret Lias, mezzo-soprano
Lawrence Jones, tenor
Woodrow Bynum, bass
Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting

MENDELSSOHN
Christus, Op. 97

SCHUBERT
Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D. 759

MENDELSSOHN
Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener in Frieden fahren, Op. 69/1

MOZART
Requiem in D minor, K 626

A CANDLELIGHT CHRISTMAS

Tuesday, December 19, 2017 — 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday, December 20, 2017 — 7:30 p.m.
Old South Church, Boston

Back Bay Chorale
*Back Bay Chorale Ensemble
Majestic Brass
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting

O come, O come, Emmanuel, arr. Parker/Shaw
Carol: O come, all ye faithful, arr. Willcocks
In dulci jubilo, M. Praetorius
Now is born the divine Christ child (Traditional)
The Shepherd’s Farewell (from L’enfance du Christ, op. 25), Berlioz
The Birth of Christ (from Christus, op. 97), Mendelssohn
Carol: The first Nowell, arr. Willcocks
What is this lovely fragrance?, arr. Flummerfelt
*Suo gân, arr. Cleobury
Ding! dong! merrily on high, arr. Wilberg
*O frondens virga, Drew Collins
*Ach Herr, du Schöpfer aller Ding, Schütz
A Hymn to the Virgin, Britten
The Shepherd’s Carol, Bob Chilcott
*Mary had a baby, arr. Dawson
Carol: Go, tell it on the mountain (Traditional Spiritual)
Glory, glory, glory to the newborn King, Moses Hogan
Come, let us go again, Carson Cooman
Carol: Hark! the herald-angels sing, arr. Willcocks
Hallelujah! (from Messiah), G. F. Handel

ELEMENTS OF STYLE: AN AMERICAN SONGBOOK

Saturday, March 10, 2018 — 8:00 p.m.
St. Paul’s Church, Cambridge

Margaret Bridge, mezzo-soprano
Daniel Doña, viola
Henry Weinberger, piano
Back Bay Chorale
*Back Bay Chorale Ensemble
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting

DIORIO
All Is (2016)

BARBER
Reincarnations (1942)

CORIGLIANO
Fern Hill (1961)

LAURIDSEN
Mid-Winter Songs (1980)

SHAW
Fly Away I (2012)

LANG
tell me, from battle hymns (2009)

HIGDON
Amazing Grace, from Southern Grace (1998)

ESSENTIAL VOICES: RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS

Sunday, May 13, 2018 — 3:00 p.m.
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge

Christina Pier, soprano
Sumner Thompson, baritone
Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Toward the Unknown Region

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Five Variants of “Dives and Lazarus”

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Dona Nobis Pacem

2016–17

MUSIC OF THE SPIRITS

Sunday, October 30, 2016 —3:00 p.m.
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University Cambridge

Sonja DuToit Tengblad, soprano
Margaret Lias, mezzo-soprano
Patrick T. Waters, tenor
Ryne Cherry, baritone
Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting

BRAHMS
Nänie, Op. 82

BEETHOVEN
Mass in C major, Op. 86

MENDELSSOHN
Die erste Walpurgisnacht [The First Walpurgis Night], Op. 60

A BOSTON CHRISTMAS

Sunday, December 18, 2016 – 3:00 p.m.
Old South Church, Boston

Eric Berlin, trumpet
Back Bay Chorale
*Back Bay Chorale Ensemble
Majestic Brass
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
Jonathan Mott conducting

Verbum caro factum est, Hassler
Carol: Hark! the herald-angels sing, arr. J. Wachner
Gloria in excelsis Deo, Weelkes
Plainsong: In splendoribus sanctorum, Mode VI
In splendoribus sanctorum, MacMillan
Lux Aurumque, Whitacre
*O beatum et sacrosanctum diem, P. Philips
*Hodie Christus natus est, Poulenc
Carol: O come, all ye faithful, arr. D. Willcocks
Hodie Christus natus est, G. Bassano
Bethlehem, W. Billings
Carol: Angels we have heard on high, J. Wachner
†Fum, fum, fum, arr. Parker/Shaw
*†E la don, don, Cancionero de Upsala, 1556
*†Ríu, ríu, chíu, Cancionero de Upsala, 1556
Coventry Carol, D. Warland
The Three Kings, J. Dove
When the song of the angels is stilled, P. Ayres
Christmas Flourish, Randol Alan Bass

ESSENTIAL VOICES: DA PACEM

Saturday, March 11, 2017 — 8:00 p.m.
St. Paul’s Church, Cambridge

Emily Marvosh, contralto
Justin Thomas Blackwell, organ
Back Bay Chorale
Jonathan Mott conducting

STANFORD
Justorum animae, Op. 38, No. 1

BACH
Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229

LEE
Lux aeterna IV

SHEPPARD
In pace, in idipsum dormiam et requiescam

PÄRT
The Beatitudes

TAVENER
Song for Athene

RACHMANINOFF
Blagoslovi, dushe moya, Ghospoda, from All-Night Vigil, Op. 37

MOTT
Beings

PÄRT
Da pacem Domine

BYRD
Gaudeamus omnes in Domino

PAULUS
The Road Home

HAYDN Die Schöpfung [The Creation], H.XXI:2 (sung in German)

Sunday, May 14, 2017 — 3:00 p.m.
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge

Jacquelyn Stucker, soprano
William Hite, tenor
Sumner Thompson, baritone
Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting

2015–16

THE ROMANTIC GENERATION

Saturday, November 7, 2015 – 8:00 p.m.
Church of St. Paul, Cambridge

Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
Henry Weinberger, piano
Justin Thomas Blackwell, piano
Ethan DePuy, tenor
Becca Kornet, mezzo-soprano
John Kornet, tenor
Elisabeth Axtell, horn
Nick Rubenstein, horn
Anna Ellsworth, harp

BRAHMS
from Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103 (Nos. 1, 4, 5, and 11)

BRAHMS
Vier Gesänge, Op. 17

SCHUBERT
Der Gondelfahrer, D. 809

SCHUBERT
Nachthelle, D. 892

SCHUBERT
Sehnsucht, D. 656

BRAHMS
Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52

A BOSTON CHRISTMAS

Sunday, December 20, 2015 – 3:00 p.m.
Old South Church, Boston

Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
Lexington High School Concert Choir (Jason Iannuzzi, Director of Choruses)
Tremble Clefs: A Chorus of the Jewish Family and Children’s Service (Marilyn Okonow, conductor)
Back Bay Chorale (Scott Allen Jarrett, conductor)
Majestic Brass
Justin Thomas Blackwell, organ

O come, O come Emmanuel – Traditional, arr. Julian J. Wachner
Carol: Adeste Fideles (O come, all ye faithful) – John Francis Wade, arr. Richard Webster
Bring a torch, Jeannette, Isabelle – Traditional, arr. Wachner
Svete tikhi, Op. 23, no. 2,Alexander Gretchaninoff
Ave Maria, Anton Bruckner
Carol: O little town of Bethlehem, Lewis H. Redner; arr. Webster
Oh guide my steps, Debra Winston
This Christmastide, Donald Fraser
Sing Noel, William Cutter
The snow lay on the ground – Traditional, arr. Wachner
Sleigh Ride – Leroy Anderson, arr. Michael Edwards
The holly and the ivy, Rodney Lister
Now winter nights enlarge – Thomas Campion, arr. Richard Cornell
Away in a manger, Rodney Lister
Jubilate Deo à 8, Giovanni Gabrieli
Niño lindo – Traditional Venezuelan melod, arr. Wachner
Carol: Silent Night – Franz Gruber, arr. Wachner
Fantasia on a Ukranian Carol – Traditional Ukranian carol, arr. William Cutter
Carol: Joy to the world – Traditional, arr. Wachner

POULENC Stabat Mater
MOZART Symphony No. 39 in E-flat major, K. 543
VERDI Stabat Mater

Saturday, March 5, 2016 – 8:00 p.m.
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge

Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
Jacquelyn Stucker, soprano

BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125
BERNSTEIN Chichester Psalms

Back Bay Chorale
New Bedford Symphony

Saturday, May 14, 2016 – 7:30 p.m.
Zeiterion Arts Center, New Bedford

David MacKenzie conducting

Sunday, May 15, 2016 – 3:00 p.m.
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge

Scott Allen Jarrett conducting

Karen Slack, soprano
Abigail Fischer, mezzo-soprano
Yeghishe Manucharyan, tenor
David Kravitz, baritone

2014–15

MUSIC OF VIENNA

Saturday, October 18, 2014 – 8:00 p.m.
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge

Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
Joanna Mongiardo, soprano
Jacqueline Stucker, soprano
Patrick T. Waters, tenor
Bradford Gleim, bass

BEETHOVEN
Hallelujah, from Christ on the Mount of Olives, Op. 85

HAYDN
Te Deum in C major, Hob. XXIIIc:2 (“for the Empress Marie Therese”)

SCHOENBERG
Friede auf Erden, Op. 13

MOZART
“Great” Mass in C minor, K.427

A CANDLELIGHT CHRISTMAS

Saturday, December 13, 2014 – 8:00 p.m.
Emmanuel Church, 15 Newbury Street,

Boston Back Bay Chorale
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
*Mariah Wilson conducting
Majestic Brass
Gary DiPerna, timpani
Justin Thomas Blackwell, organ

Tollite hostias (from Oratorio de Noël, Op. 12), Camille Saint-Saëns
Carol: O come, all ye faithful; arr. David Willcocks
*Bogoroditse Devo, Arvo Pärt
*Bogoroditse Devo (from All-Night Vigil, Op. 37), Sergei Rachmaninoff
*Shestopsalmiye (from All-Night Vigil, Op. 37), Rachmaninoff
*Salvation is created, Pavel Chesnokov
Ave Maria (Angelus Domini), Franz Biebl
Canon: Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen, Melchior Vulpius
Lo, how a Rose e’er blooming, Jan Sandström
Carol: Hark! the herald-angels sing, arr. Willcocks
Quem vidistis, pastores?, Richard Dering
Rise up, shepherd, and follow, Spiritual; arr. John Rutter
Glory, glory, glory to the newborn King, Spiritual; arr. Moses Hogan
Carol: Deck the hall, Traditional carol
Jubilate Deo a 8, Giovanni Gabrieli
Here we come a-wassailing, Traditional carol
Carol of the Bells, arr. Peter J. Wilhousky
I wonder as I wander; Appalachian carol, arr. Rutter
What cheer?, William Walton
Have yourself a merry little Christmas, arr. Paul Johnson
Carol: Silent night, holy night, arr. Malcolm Sargent
Carol: Joy to the world, arr. Julian J. Wachner
“Hallelujah” (from Messiah), G. F. Handel

BEETHOVEN Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123

Saturday, March 21, 2015 – 8:00 p.m.
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge

Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
Jessica Muirhead, soprano
Adriana Zabala, alto
Stefan Barner, tenor
David Kravitz, bass

DURUFLÉ Requiem, Op. 9

Saturday, May 9, 2015 – 8:00 p.m.
St. Paul’s Church, Cambridge

Back Bay Chorale
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
*Mariah Wilson conducting
Margaret Lias, mezzo-soprano
Sassan Haghighi, cello
Justin Thomas Blackwell, organ

INGALLS
Northfield

MARSHALL
Hymnodic Delays: Bright Hour Delayed

O’REGAN
We Remember Them, from Triptych (2005)

RUNESTAD
I will lift my eyes (Psalm 121)

DURUFLÉ
Quatre Motets sur des Thèmes Grégorian, Op. 10

LAURIDSEN
Ubi caritas et amor

2013–14

WAGNER AND VERDI: SUNDAY AT THE OPERA

Sunday, November 3, 2013 – 3:00 p.m.
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge

Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
Karen Slack, soprano
Corey Bix, tenor
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting

WAGNER
Tannhäuser
Act II, Scene 4
Entrance of the Guests – “Freudig begrüßen wir die edle Halle”
Act II, Introduction and Scene 1
“Dich teure Halle”
Overture (Dresden version, 1837)

WAGNER
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Act III, Scene 5
Procession of the Meistersingers
Wach auf! es nahet gen den Tag”
“Morgenlich leuchtend in rosigem Schein” (Prize song)

VERDI
La Forza del Destino
Overture
Act IV, Scene 2: “Pace, pace mio Dio”

VERDI
La Traviata
Act I excerpts
“Introduction”
Brindisi (“Libiamo”)
“Si redeesta in ciel l’aurora” “Sempre libera”

VERDI
Nabucco
Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves

VERDI
Aida
Act II, Scene 2
“Gloria all’Egitto, ad Iside”
Triumphal March
“Vieni, o guerriero vindice”

BACH AND BEYOND: CELEBRATING 40 YEARS

Saturday, March 8, 2014 – 8:00 p.m.

Emmanuel Church, Boston
Back Bay Chorale
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
*Beverly Taylor conducting
Terry Everson, trumpet

BACH
Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit auf, BWV 226

KYR
Out of the Depths (De Profundis), from The Passion According to Four Evangelists (1995)

WACHNER
Shall we, too, rise forgetful from our sleep, from Come, My Dark-Eyed One (2009)

MACMILLAN
Data est mihi omnis potestas (2007)

MACMILLAN
In splendoribus sanctorum (2005)

MACMILLAN
Sedebit Dominus Rex (2005)

Bridges Presentation

BACH
Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied!, BWV 225

HANDEL Saul, HWV 53, an oratorio (abridged)

Saturday, May 10, 2014 – 7:30 p.m.
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge

Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
Sumner Thompson, baritone (Saul)
Matthew Anderson, tenor (Jonathan)
Douglas Dodson, countertenor (David)
Amanda Forsythe, soprano (Michal)
Jacquelyn Stucker, soprano (Merab)
Patrick T. Waters, tenor (Witch of Endor)
Irvin Heifetz, bass (Ghost of Samuel)
Claire McCarthy, soprano (Israelitish Woman, High Priest)
Joseph Leupold, baritone (Doeg)
Daniel Mahoney, tenor (Amalekite)

2012–13

A BACH CHRISTMAS

Saturday, December 15, 2013 – 8:00 p.m.
Faneuil Hall, Boston

Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Emily Marvosh, mezzo-soprano Gregory Zavracky, tenor
Harris Ipock, bass

BACH
Selections from Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248
Chorus: Jauchzet, frohlocket! Auf, preiset die Tage!
Chorale: Brich an, o schönes Morgenlicht
Sinfonia, from Part II
Recitative: Und alsobald war da be idem Engel
Chorus: Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe
Recitative: So recht; ihr Engel, jauchzt und singet
Chorale: Wir singen dir in deinem Heer

BACH
Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191

BACH
Magnificat in D major, BWV 243
Holiday Sing-Along, arr. Jarrett
Hallelujah!, from Messiah, George Frederic Handel

MOZART Requiem in D minor, K. 626

M FAIROUZ Anything Can Happen (2011)
(BBC Commission)

Sunday, March 17, 2013 – 8:00 p.m.
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge

Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
Teresa Wakin, soprano
Misty Bermudez, alto
Stefan Reed, tenor
David Kravitz, bass
Roger Tapping, viola

ORFF Carmina Burana

Saturday, May 11, 2013 – 8:00 p.m.
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge

Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
Boston City Singers (Jane Money, Artistic Director)
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
Melinda Whittington, soprano
Patrick T. Waters, tenor
Graham Fandrei, bass
Justin Thomas Blackwell, piano
Henry Weinberger, piano

2011–12

ESSENTIAL VOICES

Saturday, November 19, 2011 – 8:00 p.m.
Emmanuel Church, Boston

Back Bay Chorale
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
Justin Thomas Blackwell, organ

PALESTRINA
Alma Redemptoris Mater

PALESTRINA
Missa Papae Marcelli

BRITTEN
Deus in adjutorium meum … (1945)

BRITTEN
A Hymn to the Virgin (1930)

MENDELSSOHN
Heilig

BRUCKNER
Os justi, WAB 30

WACHNER
Arise, my love (1998)

MACMILLAN
Padre Pio’s Prayer (2008) J

MACMILLAN
A New Song (1997)

J S BACH St. John Passion, BWV 245

Saturday, March 10, 2012 – 8:00 p.m.
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge

Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
Dann Coakwell, tenor (Evangelist)
Paul Max Tipton, baritone (Jesus)
Margot Rood, soprano
Emily Marvosh, mezzo-soprano
Aaron Sheehan, tenor
Sumner Thompson, bass (Pilate)

HAYDN Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons), Hob. XXI:3

Saturday, May 5, 2012 – 8:00 p.m.
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge

Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
Teresa Wakim, soprano (Hanne)
Zachary Wilder, tenor (Lucas)
David Kravitz, bass (Simon)

2010–11

J S BACH Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV 248 (Christmas Oratorio)

Saturday, December 11, 2010 – 7:00 p.m.
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge

Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
Kendra Colton, soprano
Krista River, mezzo-soprano
Aaron Sheehan, tenor
David Newman, bass

RACHMANINOFF All-Night Vigil (Vsenoshchnoe bdenie), Op. 37

Saturday, March 5, 2011 – 8:00 p.m.
Emmanuel Church, Boston

Saturday, March 19, 2011 – 8:00 p.m.
Cathedral Church of St. Luke, Portland

Back Bay Chorale
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
Stefan Reed, tenor

VERDI Messe da Requiem

Saturday, May 14, 2011 – 8:00 p.m.
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge

Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
Hope Briggs, soprano
Sarah Heltzel, mezzo-soprano
Yeghishe Manucharyan, tenor
David Kravitz, baritone

2009–10

MUSIC for the CATHEDRAL, CONCERT HALL, and OPERA HOUSE

Friday, November 20, 2009 – 8:00 p.m.
Emmanuel Church, Boston

Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
Angela Gwinn, soprano
Henry Weinberger, piano
Scott Allen Jarrett, piano
Justin Thomas Blackwell, organ

VERDI
Ave Maria, from Quattro Pezzi Sacri

PIZZETTI
Missa di requiem

PIZZETTI
De profundis (1937)

ROSSINI
O salutaris Hostia

MASCAGNI
Regina Coeli, from Cavalleria rusticana

PUCCINI
Un bel dì, from Madama Butterfly

PUCCINI
Quando me’n vò, from La bohème

PUCCINI
O mio babbino caro, from Gianni Schicchi

ROSSINI
I gondolieri,from Péchés de vieillese, Vol. 1

ROSSINI
La passeggiata, from Péchés de vieillese, Vol. 1

ROSSINI
Toast pour le nouvel an, from Péchés de vieillese, Vol. 2

A VENETIAN CHRISTMAS

Saturday, December 19, 2009 – 8:00 p.m.
Sunday, December 20, 2009 – 3:00 p.m.
Marsh Chapel, Boston University, Boston

Scott Allen Jarrett conducting Majestic Brass Justin Thomas Blackwell, organ

SCHÜTZ
Jauchzet dem Herrn, SWV 38 (arranged for choir and brass by Michel Rondeau)

GABRIELI
Gloria (Sacrae Symphoniae, 1597)

DERING
Quem vidistis, pastores

GABRIELI
Sanctus (Sacrae Symphoniae, 1597)

BASSANO
Hodie Christus natus est

MONTEVERDI
Lauda Jerusalem (Psalm 147), from Vespro della Beata Virgine, 1610

CHRISTMAS FAVORITES
Carol: Hark the herald angels sing, arr. David Willcocks
Carol of the Bells, arr. Peter Wilhousky
Herbert Howells – Sing lullaby
Tomorrow shall be my dancing day, John Gardner
Shepherd’s Pipe Carol, John Rutter
Riu, riu, chiu Morten, arr. Noah Greenberg
O magnum mysterium, Morten Lauridsen
Silent Night, arr. Malcolm Sargent
The Twelve Days of Christmas Carol, arr. John Rutter
O come, all ye faithful, arr. David Willcocks
Carol: Joy to the World, arr. Julian J. Wachner
Hallelujah!, from Messiah, George Frederic Handel

HANDEL Israel in Egypt, HWV 54 (1739)
HANDEL Concerto Grosso in F major, Op. 3, no. 4

Saturday, March 13, 2010 – 8:00 p.m.
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge

Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
Teresa Wakim, soprano
Brenna Wells, soprano
Brad Fugate, alto
Matthew Anderson, tenor
James Demler, baritone
Graham T. Wright, bass

BACH Mass in B minor, BWV 232

Saturday, May 15, 2010 – 8:00 p.m.
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, Cambridge

Scott Allen Jarrett conducting
Back Bay Chorale and Orchestra
Kendra Colton, soprano I
Sonja Tengblad, soprano II
Krista River, mezzo-soprano
Aaron Sheehan, tenor
Sumner Thompson, bass-baritone