October 20, 2024 – August 16, 2024
Oct 2024
Nicholas Kraemer Conducts Handel, Beethoven, and Mozart - Guest Chorus Director
Chicago Symphony Orchestra • Chicago
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Nicholas Kraemer, conductor
Benjamin Rivera, guest chorus director
Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, countertenor
Josh Lovell, tenor
Michael Sumuel, bass-baritone
Join Nicholas Kraemer and four preeminent singers for a selection of Handel’s brilliant and soul-stirring vocal numbers, which explore the full spectrum of human emotions — from utmost sorrow to joy and sensuality. Plus, enjoy music fit for a king with Handel’s Water Music, composed for the royal court of George I, and Mozart’s grand Coronation Mass.
Program
Handel: Water Music, Suite No. 2
Handel: Voi che udite il mio lamento from Agrippina
Handel: Prophetic raptures swell my breast from Joseph
Handel: Introduction to Act III and Entrance of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon
Handel: To thee thou glorious son from Theodora
Handel: Let’s imitate her notes above from Alexander’s Feast
Beethoven: Elegy
Mozart: Mass in C Major (Coronation)
Oct 2024
Nicholas Kraemer Conducts Handel, Beethoven, and Mozart - Guest Chorus Director
Chicago Symphony Orchestra • Chicago
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Nicholas Kraemer, conductor
Benjamin Rivera, guest chorus director
Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, countertenor
Josh Lovell, tenor
Michael Sumuel, bass-baritone
Join Nicholas Kraemer and four preeminent singers for a selection of Handel’s brilliant and soul-stirring vocal numbers, which explore the full spectrum of human emotions — from utmost sorrow to joy and sensuality. Plus, enjoy music fit for a king with Handel’s Water Music, composed for the royal court of George I, and Mozart’s grand Coronation Mass.
Program
Handel: Water Music, Suite No. 2
Handel: Voi che udite il mio lamento from Agrippina
Handel: Prophetic raptures swell my breast from Joseph
Handel: Introduction to Act III and Entrance of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon
Handel: To thee thou glorious son from Theodora
Handel: Let’s imitate her notes above from Alexander’s Feast
Beethoven: Elegy
Mozart: Mass in C Major (Coronation)
Oct 2024
Nicholas Kraemer Conducts Handel, Beethoven, and Mozart - Guest Chorus Director
Chicago Symphony Orchestra • Chicago
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Nicholas Kraemer, conductor
Benjamin Rivera, guest chorus director
Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, countertenor
Josh Lovell, tenor
Michael Sumuel, bass-baritone
Join Nicholas Kraemer and four preeminent singers for a selection of Handel’s brilliant and soul-stirring vocal numbers, which explore the full spectrum of human emotions — from utmost sorrow to joy and sensuality. Plus, enjoy music fit for a king with Handel’s Water Music, composed for the royal court of George I, and Mozart’s grand Coronation Mass.
Program
Handel: Water Music, Suite No. 2
Handel: Voi che udite il mio lamento from Agrippina
Handel: Prophetic raptures swell my breast from Joseph
Handel: Introduction to Act III and Entrance of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon
Handel: To thee thou glorious son from Theodora
Handel: Let’s imitate her notes above from Alexander’s Feast
Beethoven: Elegy
Mozart: Mass in C Major (Coronation)
Oct 2024
Solemn High Mass
Church of the Ascension • Chicago
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Missa brevis in C major “Coronation Mass”, K. 317
Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006) Behold How Good and How Pleasant (1967)
Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) Ave Maria, op. 145 (1914)
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum
Sep 2024
Solemn High Mass for Michaelmas
Church of the Ascension • Chicago
John Ireland (1879-1962) Communion Service in C (1913 rev. 1941)
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) Christ, the fair glory, from Company of Heaven (1937)
Edward Elgar (1857-1934) Ave verum, op 2, no. 1 (1902)
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum
Aug 2024
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 - Diction Coach
Grant Park Music Festival • Chicago
Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Christopher Bell, chorus director
Maeve Höglund, soprano
Jane Archibald, soprano
Gemma Nha, soprano
Kayleigh Decker, mezzo-soprano
Susan Platts, mezzo-soprano
John Matthew Meyers, tenor
Rod Gilfry, baritone
Kevin Short, bass-baritone
Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen Children’s Choir
Katja Kalmar, choir director
GUSTAV MAHLER
Symphony No. 8, Symphony of a Thousand
Part I: Hymn, Veni, creator spirtus
Part II: Final Scene from Goethe’s Faust
Aug 2024
Mahler: Symphony No. 8 - Diction Coach
Grant Park Music Festival • Chicago
Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Christopher Bell, chorus director
Maeve Höglund, soprano
Jane Archibald, soprano
Gemma Nha, soprano
Kayleigh Decker, mezzo-soprano
Susan Platts, mezzo-soprano
John Matthew Meyers, tenor
Rod Gilfry, baritone
Kevin Short, bass-baritone
Gumpoldskirchner Spatzen Children’s Choir
Katja Kalmar, choir director
GUSTAV MAHLER
Symphony No. 8, Symphony of a Thousand
Part I: Hymn, Veni, creator spirtus
Part II: Final Scene from Goethe’s Faust