2023-2024 Season
Experience Moments of Beauty, Joy, and Wonder!
Music to Illuminate, Challenge, and Inspire
At Seraphim we join our voices in music that quiets the noise, speaks to the challenges we face, and sows seeds for change in our world. We invite you to join us this season.
April 26, 2024 Concert
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Stars and Planets
April 26, 2024 at 8 pm
Church of the Redeemer
Chestnut Hill
Join us for a musical exploration of the stars and planets! Organist Peter Sykes will perform his transcription of Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets. Between the movements of Holst's work choral pieces will illuminate a glorious journey through the heavens.
Timothy Takach's Helios reflects on the Greek gods for which the planets are named. Jonathan Dove's Seek Him that Maketh the Seven Stars evokes awe for the divine maker of the stars. Robert Schumann's romantic A die Sterne longs for peace among the stars. Wie schön leuchtet die Morgenstern by Elliott Gyger for adult and children's choirs is a virtuosic hymn to joy and the sweetness of love, identifying Jesus as the "morning star" in a mystical wedding song. Also on the program is a newly commissioned work Stars by Patricia Van Ness on Sara Teasdale's poem of the same title.
Music will take us beyond our small blue planet to the sublime expanse outside the limitations of our ken. Consider our unique place in the enormous solar system, embrace the unknown, and celebrate how precious and irreplaceable our lives are.
Peter Sykes, organist, assisted by Victoria Wagner
Jennifer Lester, music director for Seraphim
Heinrich Christensen, organist for Seraphim
Youth Choir, First Church in Belmont
Ian Garvie, music director
Offfered in collaboration with the Boston Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
Program booklet (includes program notes).
Friday, April 26, 2024 at 8:00 pm
Church of the Redeemer
379 Hammond St, Chestnut Hill
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Senior: $17 Advance | $20 Door
Student: $10 Advance | $10 Door
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Inspired to Joy
March 2 & 3, 2024
Seraphim’s March 2 & 3 program will explore JOY in its many facets through the works of J.S. Bach, Biebl, Coleridge-Taylor, Duruflé, Mendelssohn, Parry, a new commission by Trevor Weston, and others. We have been through many challenges in recent years, with more to come. Yet, JOY resurfaces. Join us to CELEBRATE that JOY - irrepressible and unmistakably human, emerging even without reason and in spite of reasons.
We will present the composer of our featured commission, Trevor Weston, along with the lyricist Angelo Geter in a pre-concert forum at 7:30 pm on March 2. During the concert spoken word artist Geter will recite his poem "Praise" prior to performance of the new piece, which Dr. Weston has entitled "Lauda." We encourage you to take advantage of the plentiful parking available at the venue in West Roxbury and the opportunity to greet our honored guests following the concert.
Jennifer Lester, music director
Heinrich Christensen, organist
Stephan Griffin, baritone soloist
Paul Mattal and Stephanie Wingfield, cello
Program notes.
A Seraphim Christmas
December 2 & 3, 2023
A joyous celebration of the season with works by Betinis, Bichel, Daquin, Margetson, Mendelssohn, Rutter, Schütz, Talley, Wangenheim, and Woodman, plus your favorite carols and our annual winter clothing drive.
Participate in our outreach to those experiencing homelessness by bringing donations of new and gently used sturdy winter wear. More information.