Musica Sacra Choral Concert - Two Tix
2 Prime Parquet Tickets to any Musica Sacra Performance in 2024.
Since its founding in 1964 by conductor Richard Westenburg, the mission of Musica Sacra has been to create definitive, professional, choral performances of the highest caliber for the widest possible audience. It supports its mission by presenting concerts, recording, commissioning and performing new choral works, collaborating with other top tier performing arts organizations, and educating audiences, students, and the general public in the appreciation and history of choral music.
The story of Musica Sacra, the longest continuously performing professional chorus in New York City, is the story of a dazzling past, a thriving present, and a vibrant future. It’s a tale of six decades of brilliance, every performance filled with new discoveries; profound statements made simply and elegantly. Whether a performance of the great choral masters of the past or the contemporary repertoire of today, MUSICA SACRA stands alone in its ability to positively change one’s perception of choral singing forever.
Musica Sacra was founded by Richard Westenburg at Central Presbyterian Church in 1964; it was the first all-professional, paid admission choral series ever undertaken by a church. By the early ’70s, the popularity of its concerts caused it to become independent and move to larger venues, including Carnegie Hall and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The repertoire represents the masterpieces of choral music – the motets, cantatas, passions, and B Minor Mass of Bach, the masses of Mozart and Haydn, the Requiems of Mozart, Brahms, and Fauré, Bloch’s Sacred Service, Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Strauss’s Deutsche Motette, Bruckner’s motets, and Schönberg’s Friede auf Erden – all part of the rich tradition of presenting the finest choral music by the foremost musicians of our time.
One of the manifestations of this rich tradition has been Musica Sacra’s performances of the Passions of J.S. Bach. The St. John Passion was recently presented at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater, implementing a surround-sound volunteer choir singing the chorales of the Passion in addition to the Musica Sacra core of professional singers. This follows a similar practice for the St. Matthew Passion, which in 1992, 1994, 2006 and 2008, filled Carnegie Hall’s Second Tier with over 200 experienced singers who performed all the work’s chorales. Musica Sacra’s manner of performing these Passions has become a standard and well-received version of these masterpieces.
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