Sunday, October 11, 2026 4 pm and 5;45 pm
Jerwood Hall
David Önaç, Atlantic Requiem (world premiere)
Malcolm J. Merriweather, conductor
Brittany Renee, soprano
J’Nai Bridges, mezzo-soprano
Orson Van Gay II, tenor
BBC Singers
London Symphony Orchestra
November 1 & 4:00pm
Symphony in Motion: Gregg Smith, Igor Stravinsky, & Margaret Bonds
The Dessoff Choirs
Footprints Dance Company
Freddie Moore, choreographer
November 13 & 15, 2026 7:30pm and 2:00pm
Carnegie Hall
Tosca
New York Philharmonic
Gustavo Dudamel, Music and Artistic Director
Marina Rebeka, Tosca
Jonas Kaufmann, Cavaradossi
Ludovic Tézier, Scarpia
Andrew Moore, Angelotti
Ben Brady, Sacristan
Ben Reisinger, Spoletta
Benjamin Taylor, Sciarrone
Christopher Humbert Jr., Jailer
New York Philharmonic Chorus
Malcolm J. Merriweather, Director
Brooklyn Youth Chorus
Dianne Berkun Menaker, Director
December 6, 2026 4:00pm
Rosary Cathedral, 2535 Collingwood Blvd, Toledo, OH
RICHARD SCHNIPKE, chorus director
Great Music in a Great Space
Kent Tritle, conductor
Robert Convery, I have a dream
Malcolm J. Merriweather, baritone soloist
Merriweather guest conducts The Grace Chorale of Brooklyn in And They Lynched Him On A Tree William Grant Still (1895-1978). The Chorale is joined by the Brooklyn College Symphonic Choir and Conservatory Singers.
Malcolm J. Merriweather, conductor
Malcolm J. Merriweather, conductor
Merriweather guest conducts The Grace Chorale of Brooklyn in And They Lynched Him On A Tree William Grant Still (1895-1978). The Chorale is joined by the Brooklyn College Symphonic Choir and Conservatory Singers.
Malcolm J. Merriweather, conductor
This program reflects on the Civil War as seen through Whitman’s eyes. As a volunteer nurse in a Washington, D.C. military hospital, he was witness to the many horrors that wars inflict.
Rene Clausen’s Three Whitman Songs and Jeffrey Van’s A Procession Winding Around Me: Four Civil War Poems offers contemporary settings of Whitman’s poetry, the latter with guitar. British composers Stanford and Holst both set Whitman’s elegy on the death of Abraham Lincoln “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” with full Victorian splendor. We also present the final installment (over three seasons) of Bach’s six motets, Der geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf. The motet, written for a funeral fits the theme of this program.
Pre-concert talk – 3:15 pm
Civil War Poetry of Walt Whitman
Dr. Karen Karbiener
A Procession Winding Around Me: Four Civil War Poems Jeffrey Van (b. 1941)
Der geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, BWV 226 J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
Three Whitman Settings Rene Clausen (b. 1953)
Four Walt Whitman Songs Kurt Weill (1900-1950)
Whispers of Heavenly Death (premiere) Ian Sturges Milliken (b. 1984)
Ode to Death, H. 144, Op. 38 Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Elegiac Ode, Op. 21 Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)
