29th Annual Memorial Vespers

Saint Peter's Church
Lexington Avenue at 54th Street, New York City

Saturday June 6th, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.:

J.S. Bach
O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht BWV 118

Johannes Brahms
Geistiches Leid Opus 30

Works by Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, and Randall Thompson

Gregg Smith and Thomas Schmidt, Conductors

2008 - 2009
New York Concert Series

Saint Peter's Church
Lexington Avenue at 54th Street, New York City

March 7, 2009. Saturday evening at 8:00 p.m.:

This concert will be in memory of Lukas Foss and Edmund Najera

Heinrich Schütz
Psalms for Double Chorus

Edmund Najera
Plaudite

Karl Korte
Home to Roost
Songs on texts by Poet Laureate Kay Ryan

Lukas Foss
Behold I Build an House

intermission

Dale Jergenson
The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat
A Parable for Chorus and Harmonica

Sidney Marquez Boquiren
Lament: Out of the Depths

Libby Larsen
By a Departing Light

James Shaw
Three settings of E. E. Cummings

Gregg Smith
Evening

This Series is made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council of the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts.