Malcolm J. Merriweather, clinician
Merriweather performs Three Dream Portraits by Margaret Bonds with organist, Nathaniel Gumbs. The program also includes chamber music for various instruments all in the splendor of the Church of St. Luke & St. Simon Cyrene.
Malcolm will be guest clinician and recitalist for the insittute. His seminars will focus on English/German Diction, solo singing, and choral conducting.
The Dessoff Choirs will join Roomful of Teeth in a performance of Eve Beglarian’s None more than you. The ensemble of Grammy Award-winning vocal titans led by Williams College professor Brad Wells, returned to its summer home at MASS MoCA creating new works and honing techniques. Teeth’s residency culminated in an unforgettable performance, which includrf Richard Beaudoin’s Another Woman of Another Kind featuring Claire Chase and a new arrangement of David Lang’s Little Match Girl Passion.
Merriweather will present the “Calamus Songs” of Gregg Smith with pianist, Nissa Kahle and flutist, Lish Lindsey.
Malcolm J. Merriweather, conductor
Sing with The Dessoff Choirs as we gather to lift our voices in holiday cheer with one of the most beloved choral masterpieces, Handel’s Messiah.
Malcolm J. Merriweather, conductor
The Dessoff Choirs ushers in the winter solstice with a reprise performance of Margaret Bonds’ The Ballad of the Brown King, coinciding with Dessoff’s CD release of this never-before recorded work. A holiday cantata focusing on Balthazar of the Three Kings, the text was written by Langston Hughes and the entire work was written in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. The concert opens with traditional holiday motets and concludes with Silent Night by candlelight and the “Hallelujah Chorus” from Handel’s Messiah.
Pre-concert talk with Dr. Ashley Jackson – 3:15 pm
| Rise up, Shepherd, and Follow | André J. Thomas (b. 1952) |
| Carol: O come all ye faithful | John Francis Wade (1711-1786) |
| Arr. David Willcocks (b. 1919-2015) | |
| The snow lay on the ground | Julian Wachner (b. 1969) |
| Carol: Hark the herald angels sing | Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) |
| Arr. Daniel Fortune and Malcolm J. Merriweather | |
| The Ballad of the Brown King | Margaret Bonds (1913-1972) |
| Carol: Silent Night | Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863) |
| Hallelujah from Messiah | George Friderick Handel (1685-1759) |
Malcolm J. Merriweather, conductor
Harvard Club Festival Chorus and Orchestra
Merriweather conducts the Conservertory Symphonic Choir and Orchestra in an annual presentation of Handel’s Messiah.
This winter concert rings in the golden anniversary, with a program including works by Johannes Brahms, René Clausen, Rollo Dilworth, Gabriel Fauré, Elaine Hagenberg, David Hurd, and Karen Siegel, and new pieces written for the occasion by Artistic Director and Conductor Colin Britt and former Artistic Director Michael Conley!
Merriweather joins former conductors Gwen Gould, Andrew Megill, and Michael Conley,
