TITANS FROM THE TEENS AND TWENTIES

Saturday, October 17, 2009, 8:00 PM
St. John's Chapel
632 S. Main St., Geneva, NY

Sunday, October 18, 2009, 3:00 PM
Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse, NY

Syracuse Vocal Ensemble opens its 2009-10 season with a performance in partnership with the Everson Museum of Art's grand fall exhibit "Turner to Cezanne." The exhibit is a stunning collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings and invites this forward-looking choral program that exemplifies the diversity of musical styles flowing out of this era. Composers represented on this program include Ralph Vaughan Williams, Aaron Copland, Maurice Ravel, William Schuman, and Béla Bartók. Celebrated Syracuse pianist Kevin Moore joins the ensemble for this fascinating intersection of art and music.

MY SOUL DOTH MAGNIFY: A CHRISTMAS PIE OF MAGNIFICATS

Saturday, December 12, 2009, 7:30 PM
Cicero United Methodist Church
8416 Brewerton Rd., Cicero, NY

Sunday, December 13, 2009, 3:00 PM
United Church of Fayetteville
310 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville, NY

The well-known scripture passage from the Gospel of Luke known as the "Magnificat" or "Song of Mary" describes Mary's response to the Angel Gabriel's announcement that she will bear God's son. This year's Christmas Pie program will explore a diverse assortment of Magnificat settings, including music by Thomas Tomkins, Heinrich Schutz, Felix Mendelssohn, Kenneth Leighton, and Sergei Rakhmaninov. Antonio Vivaldi's Magnificat accompanied by chamber strings will conclude the program. And, of course, be sure to stay for our famous pie reception afterwards.

RAKHMANINOV'S VESPERS (THE ALL-NIGHT VIGIL)

Saturday, March 13, 2010, 8:00 PM
St. Mary's Church
401 N. Main St., Minoa, NY

Sunday, March 14, 2010, 3:00 PM
St. Patrick's Church
216 N. Lowell Ave, Syracuse, NY

Considered by many to be one of the greatest a cappella choral works ever composed, the All-Night Vigil by Russian composer Sergei Rakhmaninov is a work of extraordinary power and beauty. Rakhmaninov himself considered it his greatest achievement. Written in less than two weeks in 1915, the All-Night Vigil received its first performance in Moscow at an extraordinarily tense time, coming as it did on the eve of the Bolshevik Revolution. Perhaps this grave political circumstance is what inspired the not-so-religious Rakhmaninov to write a liturgical work of such astonishing depth. Whatever the reason, this is a work for the ages.

SPECIAL EVENT: QUINTESSENTIAL WITH JOE DAVOLI, FIDDLE AND HARVEY NUSBAUM, GUITAR

Sunday, April 11, 2010, 3:00 PM
May Memorial Unitarian Universalist Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A concert of Irish music to benefit SVE.