Come celebrate with us the 15th season of St. Bartholomew’s Summer Festival of Sacred Music, a New York institution, offering outstanding sacred choral works from around the world.

Each day of the festival begins with an organ voluntary at 10:50 am and the day’s choral work presented within the context of St. Bartholomew’s 11 am service.

Two of New York City’s finest choirs, St. Bartholomew’s Choir and the Boy and Girl Choristers, sing the works in the architectural splendor of St. Bartholomew’s Church. For more information, call St. Bart's Central: 212.378.0222.

THE SCHEDULE OF WORKS:
SUNDAY, JUNE 28
Celebrating New York's annual observance of Pride Week, and the 15th season of the Summer Festival of Sacred Music, St. Bartholomew's Choir will offer a selection of Sacred Music of Gay Composers: Benjamin Britten, Calvin Hampton and David Conte.
 
SUNDAY, JULY 5
Great American Music in Observance of Independence Day
Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and music of Copland and Piccolo

SUNDAY, JULY 12
Works by Felix Mendelssohn: A 200th Birthday Observance
Die Deutsche Liturgie, He watching over Israel (from Elijah) and Grant us thy peace

SUNDAY, July 19
The Incomparable William Byrd
Missa á 4 and Ave verum corpus

SUNDAY, July 26
Missa Luba A Congolese Mass
Nicholas White’s Steal Away

SUNDAY, August 2
Palestrina - The Prince of Music
Missa Brevis and Sicut cervus

Sunday, AUGUST 9
Joseph Rheinberger – Cantus Missae

Sunday, AUGUST 16
Music for Men’s Voices
Maurice Duruflé – Messe cum jubilo
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy - Periti autem

Sunday, AUGUST 23
Zoltán Kodály – Missa Brevis

Sunday, AUGUST 30
Bob Chilcott – A Jazz Mass

Sunday, SEPTEMBER 6
Franz Peter Schubert – Missa in G
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) composed his Missa in G in 1815. It is scored for 4 part choir, soprano, tenor and bass soloists, strings and continuo. An early mass, it is highly influenced by Mozart in the natural symmetry of its phrases, but holds glimpses of the harmonic adventurousness and emotional intensity of Schubert’s later work.

Sunday, SEPTEMBER 13
Franz Joseph Haydn
Missa in D Minor (“The Lord Nelson”)
At 11 am, St. Bartholomew's Choir with orchestra will offer Haydn's Missa in D Minor ("The Lord Nelson Mass") as part of the Summer Festival of Sacred Music. Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) composed his Missa in D Minor in 1798. It is scored for 4 part choir, soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists, strings, trumpets, tympani and continuo. It is the third of Haydn’s six late masses. According to legend, the powerful trumpet fanfares of the Benedictus of this mass were inspired by the news of Admiral Lord Nelson's victory over Napolean at the Battle of the Nile. Although, the mass makes use of vivid war imagery, Haydn's noble vision of peace in the final "Dona nobis pacem" is unsurpassed in any other of his mass settings.

Sunday, SEPTEMBER 20
St. Bartholomew’s Boy and Girl Choristers
Malcolm Archer – Christchurch Mass
Malcolm Archer (b. 1952) is widely regarded as one of the foremost church musicians of his generation. His posts as Director of Music have included the cathedrals of Bristol, Norwich and St. Paul's in London. He is presently Director of Chapel Music at Winchester College. A prolific composer of over 200 published works, his choral music is renowned for its accessibility and vocal ease. His Christchurch Mass for treble voices and organ was composed in 1992 for the Choir of Christchurch Priory in Dorset.