Commonwealth Chorale‘s second season with Artistic Director Michael Driscoll includes these concerts:
- November 18, 2023:“Glory and Praise” — Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Francis Poulenc’s Gloria. Premiered in the 1960s, both were influenced by jazz and popular music, and both exemplify the power of ancient sacred texts to express timeless desires for peace and spiritual transcendence.
- March 10, 2024: “Fate and Faith” — Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s Lobgesang, Johannes Brahms’s Schicksalslied, and Felix Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42.
- May 11, 2024: “The Dream Unfinished” — Florence Price’s Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight, William Grant Still‘s Plain-Chant for America, other works by Price, as well as works by Margaret Bonds, Randall Thompson, André Thomas, Irving Berlin, and Dorothy Rudd Moore.
Commonwealth Chorale is a 70-member auditioned chorus of experienced singers from the
metropolitan Boston area. Commonwealth Chorale is committed to performing the finest
classical music from all periods and from a wide cross-section of composers. Rehearsals are at First Baptist Church in Newton Centre, and concerts are at Church of the Holy Name in West Roxbury.
