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Mark your calendars for Dec. 21: “The Grand Tradition Continues: OSNY Messiah 2020” is a performance of selections from Handel’s "Messiah" that will debut for on-demand, free streaming on Monday, December 21, at 8:00 pm on the Oratorio Society of New York website, www.osny.org. Taped in October in the barn at Kent’s house in upstate New York, the performance features Kent leading 24 members of the Oratorio Society of New York chorus, a 12-member orchestra, and star soloists Susanna Phillips, Soprano, Heather Petrie, Joshua Blue, Tenor, and Baritone Sidney Outlaw.
In addition to most of the Christmas portion of the oratorio (Part 1), the performance includes the “Hallelujah” chorus performed by more than 80 members of the OSNY, each recorded separately and engineered together.
Just announced: The Naxos recording of the world premiere performance of "Sanctuary Road" by Paul Moravec, Composer and Mark Campbell, with Kent leading the Oratorio Society of New York and soloists Laquita Mitchell Soprano, Raehann Bryce-Davis, mezzo soprano, Joshua Blue, Tenor, Malcolm J. Merriweather, and Dashon Burton, Bass-Baritone has been nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Choral Performance category! See the full list of nominees here:
2021 GRAMMYs: Complete Nominees List
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The 63rd GRAMMY Awards are right around the corner, airing Sunday, Jan. 31, on CBS, but the nominations are here now! Find out who is nominated in each of the 83 categories in the full nominees list below.For Veteran's Day: Here is Kent leading the Cathedral Choir in an excerpt of Patrick Zimmerli's "Instrument of Destiny," recorded at the work's U.S. premiere last November.
"Under the Little Crosses" by Patrick Zimmerli
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"Under the Little Crosses" from Alan Seeger: Instrument of Destiny November 20, 2019 Patrick Zimmerli, composer Mirabelle Ordinaire, conception, libretto, tr...This coming Tuesday at 6! Watch the "Tuesday at 6" virtual concert from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC, featuring a performance compilation of Kent playing favorites by J.S. Bach and the Toccata from "Suite Gothique" by Léon Boëllmann. Details here!
So here's the story! As the New York Philharmonic says:
Perhaps a trick, and definitely a treat! “All Hallows’ Eve: NY Phil at the Cathedral,” featuring small groups of NY Phil musicians - including Kent! - playing spooky classics that make you think of things that go bump in the night, all in the Gothic interior of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC. Tune in tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. EDT for our musical Halloween party!
The New York Philharmonic partners with the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC for this free, streamed performance of classically spooky compositions by Saint-Saëns and others, recorded in the Cathedral and streamed on their YouTube and Facebook pages on Saturday, October 31 at 6:00 PM ET: www.facebook.com/nyphilharmonic/?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mkt_20201030_pl...