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Announcing Our 2024-25 Season

Holiday Concert – Once, as I Remember

An homage to the Festival of Lessons and Carols, featuring poetry and carols both traditional and modern.

  • Saturday, December 7, 2024
  • Sunday, December 8, 2024
  • Both concerts at St. Andrew’s Church in Kent, CT at 3:00 PM

Spring Concert – The Gift to Sing

Featuring a newly commissioned setting from composer Jonathan Woody of “The Gift to Sing” by James Weldon Johnson.

  • Sunday, March 23, 2025
  • St. Andrew’s Church in Kent, CT at 3:00 PM

Summer Major Works Concert

Featuring Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass.

  • Sunday, June 8, 2025
  • St. John’s Church in New Milford, CT at 3:00 PM

Tickets for all three concerts are available here: tickets

Season Album 2023-2024

A Rose in Winter
December 9 & 10, 2023
(Original painting by Kent Singer, Ann Quackenbos)
The Peace of Wild Things
March 10, 2024
Vivaldi, Handel & Zelenka
June 2, 2024

We opened our 51th season in December 2023 with A Rose in Winter, a gentle and beautiful program of music expressing joy, hope and peace. The Spring concert, The Peace of Wild Things, on March 10, 2024 featured Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb, Randall Thompson’s Frostiana (organ and piano played brilliantly by our accompanist, Sandra Kleisner), and two pieces by the young American composer, Jake Runestad: The Hope of Loving and The Peace of Wild Things.

The audience for our Summer Great Works Concert on June 2, 2024 was treated to three delightful pieces from the Baroque period: Vivaldi’s Gloria, Handel’s Coronation Anthems, and Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Magnificat in D Major.

Pre-concert warmup for Rose in Winter
Knox addressing the Rose in Winter audience
St. Andrew’s Church, Kent CT
Rehearsing with soloists and orchestra
Rose in Winter organist Sarah Johnson
Sandra Kleisner at the organ for Rejoice in the Lamb, assisted by former Kent Singer Martha Holcombe
One of our faithful volunteers, Exiene Lofgren
Schlicker organ at St. Andrew’s
The Peace of Wild Things performance
Harpsichordist Christine Gevert tuning her instrument before the June concert
Kent Singer tenors in rehearsal

Thank you for a successful 2023-24 season!

St. John's Episcopal Church, New Milford, CT
St. John’s Episcopal Church, New Milford, CT
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Kent, CT
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Kent, CT

Thanks to all our singers, volunteers, donors, advertisers, and especially our faithful audience for a successful conclusion to our 2023-24 season! Click here for photos and music from our three concerts this year: A Rose in Winter, The Peace of Wild Things, and Vivaldi, Handel & Zelenka.

Also a special thank you to St. Andrew’s Church in Kent and St. John’s Church in New Milford, and to our wonderful director, Knox Sutterfield, and rehearsal accompanist, Sandra Kleisner!

Looking forward to seeing you again next year! Have a great summer!

Summer Concert Recording 2024

Click here to see the concert program

Click here to listen to the entire live concert

(As always, we’re making these recordings available to you, our members, for your private enjoyment only. Please don’t copy them to any streaming services or publish them in any way.)

Summer 2024 – Vivaldi, Handel & Zelenka

Our annual Summer Great Works concert for 2024 features three pieces from the Baroque era: Vivaldi’s Gloria, Handel’s Coronation Anthems, and Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Magnificat in D Major.

Click here to see the concert program

Vivaldi, Handel, Zelenka – June 2, 2024

 
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Practice Playlist for Summer Concert 2024

Here are Knox’s official playlists for our Summer concert:

One nice thing about the YouTube recording of the Zelenka is that it has the score with it—including the orchestral and solo parts—which might be especially helpful as we get closer to the concert.

Here are slowed-down versions of two sections from the Zelenka:

Also, here is a quick lesson on how to perform the trills in the Handel Coronation Anthems:

Summer Great Works Concert 2024

Our annual Summer Great Works Concert for this year will feature three pieces from the Baroque era: Vivaldi’s Gloria, Handel’s Coronation Anthems, and Czech composer Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Magnificat in D Major.

  • Sunday, June 2, 2024
  • St. John’s Church in New Milford, CT at 3:00 PM

Tickets now on sale here: Tickets

The Peace of Wild Things – March 10, 2024

 
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