In celebration of the Yale School of Music’s 125th anniversary, the Yale Philharmonia and Yale Schola Cantorum will join The Bach Choir, London for a five-city East Coast tour, March 8-14, performing a program titled English Musical Splendor.
David Hill, music director of The Bach Choir, London and principal conductor of the Yale Schola Cantorum, will lead the ensembles in a selection of English choral masterpieces, including William Walton’s magnificent oratorio Belshazzar’s Feast. Baritone David Pershall (Mus.M. 2010; Mus.A.D. 2011) and Yale School of Music faculty pianist and Dean Robert Blocker will join the ensembles as the program’s soloists. Learn more at: https://music.yale.edu/tour2020/.
Charles Villiers Stanford Song to the Soul, Op. 97b
Arnold Edward Trevor Bax Mater ora filium, GP 246
Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on the “Old 104th” Psalm Tune
—Intermission—
William Walton Belshazzar’s Feast
Yale alumni and affiliates are warmly invited to attend this celebration of Yale’s remarkable musical culture, as well as an exclusive preconcert events in each of the tour cities. The concerts and preconcert events in New Haven, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C., are free for all alumni and their guests but you must register.
