The 2016–2017 season opens with Mozart’s Requiem at Alice Tully Hall with The Dessoff Orchestra. Entitled “We Remember,” this concert will feature Steven Stucky’s Take Him, Earth, honoring President John F. Kennedy, and the premiere of an orchestrated version of David Hurd’s homage to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., In Honor of Martin.
The Conservatory Singers will present a concert of contrasting repertoire that illustrates love, war, and passing as interpreted through poetry and music. Music by Isaac, Bach, Barber, Bernstein, Pachelbel, and featuring Janequin’s La Guerre.
Lawrence Cummings, piano
Alex Lavoie and Gloria Bangiola, graduate assistants
Malcolm J. Merriweather, conductor