Schedule

Dec
10
Thu
Handel’s Messiah @ Harvard Hall, Harvard Club
Dec 10 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Merriweather conducts a professional choir and orchestra in the Christmas portion of Handel’s Messiah. The concert will also be adorned with seasonal carols and arrangements by John Rutter

Dec
11
Fri
Welcome Yule! @ Judson Memorial Church
Dec 11 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

This joyous holiday program features Vivaldi’s Magnificat, Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, and Saint‐Saëns’ exquisitely orchestrated Oratorio de Noël. The program will be adorned with holiday arrangements by Robert De Cormier and seasonal carols for the audience.

 

West Village Chorale

Orchestra of the West Village Chorale

Sarah Brailey, soprano http://sarahbrailey.com/calendar/

Kirsten Sollek, contralto

Malcolm J. Merriweather, conductor

Dec
12
Sat
Cathedral Christmas Concert @ Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine
Dec 12 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

The annual Christmas Concert at St. John the Divine features J.S. Bach’s beloved Magnificat. Exuberant trumpets and timpani introduce this setting of the song of Mary, which was intended for use at major feast days, including Christmas. The triumphant brass, festive choruses, and dancing rhythms herald the arrival of the Christmas season. The angelic voices of the Cathedral Choristers will adorn the program with seasonal selections and the audience joins to sing in favorite Christmas Carols!

The Cathedral Choir, Chorale, and Choristers

Amy Justman, Jamet Pittman, and Michele Kennedy, sopranos
Katie Geissinger and Kirsten Sollek, mezzo-sopranos
Marc Day, tenor
Hans Tashjian, bass

Malcolm J. Merriweather, conductor

Kent Tritle, conductor

 

Dec
13
Sun
Welcome Yule! @ Judson Memorial Church
Dec 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

This joyous holiday program features Vivaldi’s Magnificat, Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, and Saint‐Saëns’ exquisitely orchestrated Oratorio de Noël. The program will be adorned with holiday arrangements by Robert De Cormier and seasonal carols for the audience.

 

West Village Chorale

Orchestra of the West Village Chorale

Sarah Brailey, soprano http://sarahbrailey.com/calendar/

Kirsten Sollek, contralto

Malcolm J. Merriweather, conductor

Dec
15
Tue
Messiah Sing @ Union Theological Seminary
Dec 15 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

The faculty, students, and staff join together in the Union Theological Seminary Chapel for an informal sing thru of Handel’s Messiah.

Malcolm J. Merriweather, conductor

Dec
20
Sun
Caroling Walk @ Judson Memorial Church
Dec 20 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Dig out your Santa hats and your Christmas sweaters, and warm up your Fa-la-la’s!

Come with us around the historic, Dickensian streets of our Village neighborhood singing everyone’s favorite holiday songs.  Then come back to Judson for more caroling and refreshments by the piano!

 

Malcolm J. Merriweather, conductor

Dec
21
Mon
Make Music New York Winter Festival @ West Park Presbyterian Church
Dec 21 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

**This event will conclude at the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine**

Make Music Winter, first launched in 2011, is a free, outdoor musical event each December 21st that turns audiences into music makers. Inspired by Phil Kline’s annual Unsilent Night – the boombox parade that has become an international tradition – Make Music Winter transforms New York’s cityscape with twelve participatory musical parades on the winter solstice, running the gamut of musical genres.

Parade partners in 2014 included the Bronx Music Heritage Center, Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, Friends of the High Line, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Brooklyn Public Library, Prospect Park Alliance, El Puente, and many more. The full 2014 schedule is listed on the Make Music Winter page.

Malcolm J. Merriweather, conductor

Dec
22
Tue
Messiah @ Carnegie Hall
Dec 22 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm

Malcolm joins the chorus of Musica Sacra as the institution returns to Carnegie Hall for its 77th performance of Handel’s Messiah.

Musica Sacra Chorus and Orchestra

Kathryn Lewek, Soprano
Christopher Ainslie, Countertenor
Mingjie Lei, Tenor
Matt Boehler, Bass

Kent Tritle, Music Director and Conductor

 

Dec
24
Thu
Christmas Eve Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols @ Cathedral of Saint John the Divine
Dec 24 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm

The Cathedral Choristers and the Trebles of the Cathedral Choir present a service of Nine Lessons and Carols. The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols was first celebrated at King’s College, Cambridge on Christmas Eve, 1918. It was an adaptation of a similar service that had been written for the cathedral at Truro in 1880.

The choir will sing music by Gregg Smith, Raymond Nagem, Malcolm J. Merriweather, Benjamin Britten, Larry Long, Peter Warlock, and John Rutter.

Christmas Eve Mass with Festal Prelude @ Cathedral of Saint John the Divine
Dec 24 @ 10:00 pm – 11:00 pm

The Cathedral Choir, Chorale, and Choristers are join by orchestra for the moving Christmas Mass service. The service will feature Mozart’s Coronation Mass and other seasonal carols.