Lunchtime Series: Free, 30-minute lunchtime concerts at noon. Donations accepted. Come for the concert and stay for lunch at 12:30 p.m. for only $10.
Evensong Series: Fourth Sunday of the month at 5 p.m.
Spring and Summer Schedule:
JA N UA R Y
Lunchtime – Friday, Jan. 9: Art Songs and Musical Theater, Amelia Hammond, pianist and Connor Scott, baritone
Lunchtime — Friday, Jan. 23: Sacred Vocal music at the organ, Keith Wehmeier, countertenor and Connor Scott, organ
F E B R U A R Y
Lunchtime — Friday, Feb. 13, in the Guernsey Room of The Bishop Tuttle Building: A history of the classical guitar. Solo works on Renaissance, Baroque and 19th Century guitars performed by Patrick Rafferty
Choral Evensong — Sunday, Feb. 22: Program for Black History Month featuring African American composers with the choir from St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Dr. Barbara Raedeke, organist and choir director
M A R C H
Lunchtime — Monday, March 2: Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57, Appassionata, performed by Nathan Sisson Coleman
Lunchtime — Friday, March 13: Lenten music, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater – “The sorrowful mother was standing and watching,” a masterwork of sorrow that captures the Virgin Mary’s grief at the cross through sublime duets and powerful harmonies, perfect for contemplative reflection during the Lenten season. Keith Wehmeier, countertenor and Ashley Fabian, soprano, with baroque orchestra
Choral Evensong — Sunday, March 22: Program for Women’s History Month featuring all women composers
Lunchtime —Monday, March 23: Lenten music, Early Music Missouri presents O, Let Me Weep, 17th-century sacred and secular laments for voice, Baroque violin and lutes. The program features vocal music from England and Italy as well as the Passacaglia for solo violin from Heinrich Biber’s famous Rosary Sonatas. Featuring Arianna Aerie, soprano; Celina Boldrey, Baroque violin; and Jeffrey Noonan, lute and theorbo
A P R I L
Lunchtime — Monday, April 13: Webster University Jazz Singers Mike Engelhardt, conductor, leads the chorus in The Gold Standard. (Please note concert starts at 12:15 p.m. with lunch at 12:45).
SPECIAL CONCERT — Sunday, April 19, 3 p.m.: The St. Louis Chamber Chorus, Philip Barnes, director Voices of Change: Celebrating 70 years of the Chorus. COMMONWEALTH Queen Elizabeth II (Born April 21,1926). Elizabeth II was Britain’s longest reigning monarch, and for her accession ten poets and ten composers collaborated on A Garland for the Queen, a song cycle in her honor. As queen, Elizabeth saw the British Empire. Williams both hailed in secular hymns. Now matching her longevity as queen (seven decades), the Chamber Chorus celebrates its anniversary with a commission from British composer Sasha Johnson Manning.
Choral Evensong — Sunday, April 26
MA Y
Lunchtime — Monday, May 4: Irish music, and originals by singer-songwriter and guitarist John Bolduan
Thursday, May 21: Art songs and Spirituals, Benna Stokes, mezzo-soprano, and Connor Scott, piano
Choral Evensong — Sunday, May 24: World premiere of a new Evening Service commissioned by composer Thomas Yonke
J U N E
Choral Evensong — Sunday, June 7: Memorial for Bishop Hays Rockwell featuring Fauré’s Requiem
Lunchtime — Thursday, June 18: Art songs, arias and Broadway with Danielle Feinstein, mezzo-soprano and Connor Scott, piano
