Announcing Musica Sacra’s 2025-26 Season!
The 2025-26 concert season, led by Music Director Kent Tritle, begins with the Renaissance masterpiece Spem in Alium by Thomas Tallis anchoring the group’s immersive “SurRound” program in the candlelit Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Musica Sacra’s annual holiday concert at Carnegie Hall is a program of festive music by Bach, Corelli, Rachmaninoff, and others and excerpts from Handel’s Messiah, featuring soprano Kathryn Lewek and harpist Mariko Anraku.
The season concludes with a program of new and recent music by Caroline Shaw and Wayne Oquin, including the world premiere of Oquin’s On the Words of Walt Whitman, which will feature soprano Susanna Phillips and baritone John Moore.
SurRound III
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
Kent Tritle, conductor
THOMAS TALLIS Sing and Glorify (for 40 solo voices, ed. K. Tritle)
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Mass for Double Choir: Kyrie
ARVO PÄRT Da pacem Domine
FRANK MARTIN Mass for Double Choir: Agnus Dei
ALESSANDRO STRIGGIO Ecce Beatam Lucem (for 40 solo voices)
NANCY WERTSCH Eternae Deus
VALENTIN SILVESTROV Prayer for Ukraine
CAROLINE SHAW and the swallow
TRADITIONAL “I’m gonna sing ‘til the spirit” (arr. Moses Hogan)
THOMAS TALLIS Spem in Alium (for 40 solo voices)
JEAN RITCHIE “Now is the cool of the day”
Classics for Christmas
Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Carnegie Hall
Kent Tritle, conductor
Michael Sheetz, conductor*
Kathryn Lewek, soprano
Mariko Anraku, harp
J.S. BACH “Gloria in excelsis” from Mass in B Minor
RANDALL THOMPSON Alleluia
ALESSANDRO CORELLI Concerto Grosso No. 8 in G Minor
G.F. HANDEL Excerpts from Messiah:
Pastoral Symphony
“Glory to God”
“Rejoice greatly”
FRANCIS POULENC O Magnum Mysterium
HELENA PAISH “While Mary Slept”
G.F. HANDEL Concerto for Harp in B-flat Major, Op. 4, No. 6
ADOLPHE ADAM Cantique de Noël*
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF “Bogoroditse Dyevo” from Vespers
G.F. HANDEL “Worthy is the Lamb” from Messiah
Oquin and Shaw
Wednesday, March 11, 2026 at 7:30 PM
St. Bartholomew’s Church
Kent Tritle, conductor
Susanna Phillips, soprano
John Michael Moore, baritone
CAROLINE SHAW Entr’acte for string orchestra
WAYNE OQUIN
O Magnum Mysterium
Alleluia
Sure on this shining night
On the Words of Walt Whitman for soprano, baritone, chorus, and orchestra
(world premiere)
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Programming, dates and guest artists subject to change.