The Harvard University Choir performs Haydn's The Creation in the Memorial Church of Harvard University, April 29, 2017. Music by Joseph Haydn (1732-1809). Libretto by Gottfried van Swieten (1733-1803). English adaptation by Vincent Novello (1781-1861). Harvard University Choir & Grand Harmonie conducted by Edward Elwyn Jones.

JUDAS MACCABAEUS
Oratorio in Three Parts, HWV 63 (1746)
Music by George Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
Libretto by Thomas Morell (1703–1784)


Judas Maccabaeus: Gene Stenger
Israelites: Isabella Kopits, Arianna Paz, Faith Pak, Angela Eichhorst,
Benjamin Wenzelberg, Claire Dickson, Kath Courtemanche, Elizabeth Wu,
Clare Duncan, Katherine Lazar, May Wang, Ethan Craigo,
Elba Alonso Monsalve, Theodora Mautz, Evelynne Fulda, Hugh Strike,
Rena Cohen, Rebecca Stewart
Simon: Andrew Jing, Sean Telford, Adrian Cho, Freddie MacBruce, Jasper Schoff
Eupolemus (the Jewish Ambassador to Rome): Richard Tong

Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra
Harvard University Choir
Edward Elwyn Jones, conductor
Opening remarks by Rabbi Jonah Chanan Steinberg

The Harvard University Choir and Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra conducted by Edward Elwyn Jones at the Memorial Church of Harvard University, October 21, 2017. L'Orfeo: Music by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643); Libretto by Alessandro Striggio the Younger (1573-1630).

The Harvard University Choir and the Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra will perform Joseph Haydn's L’infedeltà Delusa (Sinfonia), W. A. Mozart's Vesperae solennes de Confessore, and C. P. E. Bach's Magnificat. Download program: http://bit.ly/32kPuI0


MUSIC OF HAYDN, MOZART & C.P.E. BACH

L’infedeltà Delusa (Sinfonia), Hob. XXVIII:5 (1773)
Joseph Haydn (1732–1809)


Vesperae solennes de Confessore, K. 339 (1780)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791)

1. Dixit Dominus (Psalm 110) (Rena Cohen, Elizabeth Corbus, Patrick Braga, Christian Carson, soloists)
2. Confitebor tibi Domine (Psalm 111) (Benjamin Wenzelberg, Claire Murphy, Samuel Rosner, Henrique Neves)
3. Beatus vir qui timet Dominum (Psalm 112) (Sophie Choate, Camille Sammeth, Adam Mombru, Freddie MacBruce)
4. Laudate pueri Dominum (Psalm 113)
5. Laudate Dominum omnes gentes (Psalm 117) (Isabella Kopits)
6. Magnificat (Angela Eichhorst, Cana McGhee, Jasper Schoff, Joseph Gauvreau)


Intermission (10 minutes)

Magnificat, Wq 215, H. 772 (1749, rev. 1779)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788)
1. Magnificat
2. Quia respexit (Katharine Courtemanche)
3. Quia fecit
4. Et misericordia (Samuel Rosner)
5. Fecit potentiam (Henrique Neves)
6. Deposuit potentes de sede (Katherine Lazar and Gregory Lipson)
7. Suscepit Israel (May Wang)
8. Gloria patri
9. Sicut erat in principio


Harvard University Choir
Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra
Edward Elwyn Jones, conductor

The Harvard University Choir and Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Edward Ewlyn Jones, performed Monteverdi's Vespers at the Memorial Church of Harvard University, April 28, 2018.

The Harvard University Choir, under the direction of Edward Elwyn Jones, performs Christoph Willibald Gluck's Alceste, in the Memorial Church, Oct. 20, 2018. Download the program: https://memorialchurch.harvard.edu/files/thememorialchurch/files/alceste_program.pdf

Remembering, A Concert Commemorating the Centennial of the End of World War I: Harvard University Choir, conducted by Edward Elwyn Jones, performed Nov. 11, 2018 at the Memorial Church of Harvard University,

The music department of the Memorial Church of Harvard University, under the direction of Edward Elwyn Jones, performs Igor Stravinsky's L'Histoire Du Soldat , in the Memorial Church, Nov. 11, 2018. The piece for storytellers and instrumental ensemble features the talents of Thomas Forrest Kelley, Thomas Sheehan and Carson Cooman.

The Harvard University Choir, conducted by Edward Elwyn Jones, performs Tobias and the Angel, a church opera by Jonathan Dove to a libretto by David Lan at the Memorial Church of Harvard University, March 4, 2018.

Orfeo ed Euridice (1762)
Azione teatrale in three acts
Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)
Libretto by Ranieri de’ Calzabigi (1714–1795)

29 October 2014
The Memorial Church at Harvard University
Harvard University Choir
Grand Harmonie
Edward Elwyn Jones, conductor
Amanda Forsythe and Jessica Petrus, sopranos
Orfeo: Julia Mintzer, mezzo-soprano
Euridice: Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Amore: Margot Rood, soprano

Orfeo ed Euridice (1762)
Azione teatrale in three acts
Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)
Libretto by Ranieri de’ Calzabigi (1714–1795)

29 October 2014
The Memorial Church at Harvard University
Harvard University Choir
Grand Harmonie
Edward Elwyn Jones, conductor
Amanda Forsythe and Jessica Petrus, sopranos
Orfeo: Julia Mintzer, mezzo-soprano
Euridice: Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Amore: Margot Rood, soprano

Orfeo ed Euridice (1762)
Azione teatrale in three acts
Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714–1787)
Libretto by Ranieri de’ Calzabigi (1714–1795)

29 October 2014
The Memorial Church at Harvard University
Harvard University Choir
Grand Harmonie
Edward Elwyn Jones, conductor
Amanda Forsythe and Jessica Petrus, sopranos
Orfeo: Julia Mintzer, mezzo-soprano
Euridice: Amanda Forsythe, soprano
Amore: Margot Rood, soprano

28 March 2014
The Memorial Church at Harvard University
Harvard University Choir
Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra
Edward Elwyn Jones, conductor
Amanda Forsythe and Jessica Petrus, sopranos
Jonas Budris, tenor
David McFerrin, bass

28 April 2013
The Memorial Church at Harvard University
Harvard University Choir
Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra
Edward Elwyn Jones, conductor

Dominique Labelle, soprano
Krista River, mezzo-soprano
Matthew Anderson, tenor
Sumner Thompson, bass-baritone

28 April 2013
The Memorial Church at Harvard University
Harvard University Choir
Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra
Edward Elwyn Jones, conductor

Dominique Labelle, soprano
Krista River, mezzo-soprano
Matthew Anderson, tenor
Sumner Thompson, bass-baritone

28 April 2013
The Memorial Church at Harvard University
Harvard University Choir
Harvard Baroque Chamber Orchestra
Edward Elwyn Jones, conductor

Dominique Labelle, soprano
Krista River, mezzo-soprano
Matthew Anderson, tenor
Sumner Thompson, bass-baritone