Past PerformancesPast Performanceshttp://graceandspiritus.org/past-performances/2013-04-14T15:48:18ZSquarespaceMissa Pangeahttp://graceandspiritus.org/past-performances/2012/11/28/missa-pangea.htmlGrace and Spiritus2012-11-29T03:37:23Z2012-11-29T03:37:23Z 


Missa Pangea: One Text, Three Cultural Perspectives under the direction of Jason Asbury, Music Director on January 25, 26, and 27, 2013.

Coronation Mass
Mozart 

 
 Missa Brevis Canadian composer Ruth Watson Henderson

Miss Luba
A Congolese adaptation of the Mass.

South African singer, Peter Ncanywa, tenor solo in the Missa Luba.

 

]]>Brooklyn A Garden of Songhttp://graceandspiritus.org/past-performances/2012/7/1/brooklyn-a-garden-of-song.htmlGrace and Spiritus2012-07-01T16:17:55Z2012-07-01T16:17:55ZChoral Kickoff - Sing New York - A project of the New York Choral Consortiumhttp://graceandspiritus.org/past-performances/2012/4/16/choral-kickoff-sing-new-york-a-project-of-the-new-york-chora.htmlGrace and Spiritus2012-04-16T14:11:30Z2012-04-16T14:11:30ZFree programs of choral music on Sunday afternoon April 15. Stop in, bring friends
and hear some great choral music. Best of all, it's FREE!

]]>February 2012http://graceandspiritus.org/past-performances/2012/3/14/february-2012.htmlchristine2012-03-14T19:31:34Z2012-03-14T19:31:34ZCELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH

Grace and Spiritus will be performing in a Black History Month celebration on Sunday, February 26 at Mount Lebanon Baptist Church in Bedford-Stuyvesant.  We will sing three spirituals -  Soon Ah Will Be Done, Battle of Jericho and Swing Low, Sweet Chariot.

The celebration begins at 3:30.

All are welcome. This is a free event.

Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church, 230 Decatur Street, Brooklyn, NY 11233. Click HERE for directions.

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Transforming Traditions


Jason Asbury, Music Director
Matthew Henning, Assistant DIrector

Giacomo Carissimi - Jephte
Aarvo Part - The Beatitudes
Leonard Bernstein - Chichester Psalms

American Spirituals  -
Soon Ah Will be Done
Deep River
Joshua Fit The Battle of Jericho

Emily Serotta, soprano
Daniel Jones, Tenor
Sam Lazzara, percussion 

 

]]>September 11, 2011http://graceandspiritus.org/past-performances/2011/9/15/september-11-2011.htmlGrace and Spiritus2011-09-15T19:30:01Z2011-09-15T19:30:01Z

We began our 2011-2012 Season participatiing in a program hosted by Saint Ann’s Church, in Brooklyn Heights on September 11, 2011. The program included a new work by the British composerJulian Grant, entitled “In a Fog - Remember.” Grant’s music is set to two poems written by Brooklyn poet Anne Pierson Wiese. The chorus commissioned the piece with the theme of remembrance to commemorate the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001.  

]]>April 2011http://graceandspiritus.org/past-performances/2011/7/31/april-2011.htmlGrace and Spiritus2011-07-31T21:43:49Z2011-07-31T21:43:49ZSPRING CONCERT

LE FONTANE DI ROMA
Music by Ottorino Respighi

LARGO AL FACTOTUM DELLA CITTA (from Il Barbiere di Seviglia
Music by Gioacchino Rossini

AH, MES AMIS (from La Fille du Regiment)
Music by Gaetano Donizetti

AU FOND DU TEMPLE SAINT (from Le Pecheurs de Perles)
Music by Georges Bizet

AH, MIMI, TU PIU NON TORNI
Music by Giacomo Puccini

MESSA A QUATTRO VOCI
Music by Giacomo Puccini

FEATURING:
Mattew Garrett, tenor
Dylan Herbert, bass baritone

]]>January 2011http://graceandspiritus.org/past-performances/2011/7/31/january-2011.htmlGrace and Spiritus2011-07-31T21:37:31Z2011-07-31T21:37:31ZWINTER CONCERT

IN A FOG... REMEMBER
Music by Julian Grant
Text from poems by Anne Pierson Wiese

EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM (A German Requiem)
Music by Johannes Brahms

Peter Kendall Clark, baritone
Jeannie Im, soprano
Jason Asbury and Matthew Henning, pianists

]]>May 2010http://graceandspiritus.org/past-performances/2011/7/31/may-2010.htmlGrace and Spiritus2011-07-31T21:28:31Z2011-07-31T21:28:31ZREALMS OF POWER AND DESIRE: A CHORAL CELEBRATION OF WOMEN


GLI AMANTI FALLITI
Music by Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677)

LAMENTO DELLA NINFA
Music by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

LA PASTORELLA AL PRATO
Music by Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

MUSIC OF LILI BOULANGER
Hymne au Soleil
Les Sirenes

Emily Serotta, mezzo-soprano

MUSIC OF SAMUEL BARBER
Under the Willow Tree
Take up her bed, she looks like sleep (from Antony and Cleopatra)

Andrea Skafish, soprano

WORLD PREMIERE: THE REED
Music by Jennifer Griffith

Sarah Craft Nelson
James Ruff, tenor
Jason Asbury, pianist
Anna Maria Baeza, clarinetist
Erin Skykes, violist
Joachim Woitun, cellist
Cory Bracken, percussionist
Sadreddin Mostafavi Shahab, narrator

]]>January 2010http://graceandspiritus.org/past-performances/2011/7/31/january-2010.htmlGrace and Spiritus2011-07-31T21:09:38Z2011-07-31T21:09:38ZPRAISE AND LAMENTATION

OH GOD, THOU ART MY GOD (Psalm 63)
Music by Henry Purcell

BEATUS VIR (Psalm 112)
Music by Claudio Monteverdi

DIDO AND AENEAS: An Opera in 3 Acts
Music by Henry Purcell

Sarah Craft Nelson as Dido
Nicholas Filzen as Aeneas
Rachel Arky as Belinda
Emily Serotta as Sorceress
Andrea Skayfish as Spirit

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