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Summer Festival of Sacred Music "Special praise should go to the men and women of this adventurous summer music series." Read The New York Sun's Review, July/2008 by Fred Kirshnit: SUMMER FESTIVAL 2008/Every Sunday at the 11 o'clock service. June 22, 11am Missa Brevis in B-flat, K. 275 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart St. Bartholomew’s Choir and Orchestra of period instruments. Dona nobis pacem from Missa Breivs in B-flat, K. 275. Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor, Concentus Musicus Wien, orchestra.   June 29 Missa Brevis William Walton St. Bartholomew’s Choir Sanctus and Benedictus. Christopher Robinson, Conductor. Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge. July 6 A Celebration of American Music Chichester Psalms Leonard Bernstein Music from Randall Thompson’s The Peaceable Kingdon St. Bartholomew’s Choir with guest instrumentalists Chichester Psalms, excerpt from  Movement I The Dale Warland Singers, Dale Warland, conductor July 13 A little jazz mass Bob Chilcott St. Bartholomew’s Choir with guest instrumentalists Listen to an excerpt of Chilcott's "Gloria." July 20 Missa Luba – Congolese Mass Father Guido Haazen St. Bartholomew’s Choir with guest percussionists Listen to an excerpt of Kyrie July 27 Music of New York City composers Missa Brevis McNeil Robinson St. Bartholomew’s Choir August 3 “Western Wynde” Mass John Taverner St. Bartholomew’s Choir August 10 A celebration of Women’s voices Messe Basse Gabriel Fauré The Women of St. Bartholomew’s Choir August 17 “Collegium Regale” Communion Service Herbert Howells St. Bartholomew’s Choir August 24 A celebration of Men’s voices Missa Brevis in F Joseph Rheinberger The Men of St. Bartholomew’s Choir August 31 Missa Brevis in G Minor Johann Sebastian Bach St. Bartholomew’s Choir and Orchestra of period instruments September 7 Choristers Sunday St. Bartholomew’ Boy & Girl Choristers, with Members of St. Bartholomew’s Choir Missa Sancti Joannis de Deo Franz Josef Haydn A Song of Divine Love Grayston Ives September 14 Requiem Maurice Duruflé St. Bartholomew’s Choir and Orchestra Support the Summer Festival of Sacred Music. St. Bartholomew’s Summer Festival of Sacred Music, a New York institution, celebrates a season of outstanding choral works from around the world. The 2008 season includes music from the United States, England, France, Austria, Germany, Liechtenstein and the Congo. Highlights include three performances with orchestra, as well as a celebration of American music and a jazz mass. Join us on Sundays at 11AM, and hear two of New York’s finest choirs, Saint Bartholomew’s Choir and St. Bartholomew’s Boy & Girl Choristers, accompanied by outstanding instrumentalists and New York City’s largest pipe organ in the architectural (and air-conditioned) splendor of St. Bartholomew’s Church. For more information about the Summer Festival of Sacred Music, contact St. Bart's Central at 212-378-0222 or central@stbarts.org