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Our Concerts
Handel Society’s concert season follows the traditional academic calendar, from September through May. Concerts take place in Spaulding Auditorium at the Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College.
2019-2020 Concert Schedule
Sat, Nov 16 2019 – 7:30pm, Rossini’s Stabat Mater
Fri May 22 2020 – 7:30 PM and Sat May 23 2020 – 7:30 PM, Britten’s War Requiem, with the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra and the Dartmouth College Glee Club.
Previous Concerts
- 2019.05.18-19 Handel Messiah
- 2018.11.13 Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem
- 2018.05.19 Bach St. John Passion
- 2017.11.14 Mozart/Levin Requiem and Lauridsen Lux Æterna
- 2017.05.20 Dvořák’s Stabat Mater, Op. 58 and Bach’s Magnificat, BWV 243
- 2016.11.15 Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, world premiere of Dominic DiOrio’s I Am Music and works by Arvo Pärt
- 2016.05.29 Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Darmouth Symphony and Glee Club
- 2016.05.14 Bach’s B Minor Mass
- 2015.11.17 Handel’s Messiah
- 2015.05.16 Verdi Requiem
- 2014.11.18 Brahms Alto Rhapsody, Schicksalslied, Gesang der Parzen and Ave Maria plus Whitbourn Annelies
- 2014.05.17-18 Mozart’s Mass in C-minor
- 2013.11.19 Poulenc Gloria and Britten Ceremony of Carols
- 2013.05.18-19 J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion
- 2013.02.24 Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble
- Glimpses of Love Christopher Marshall (world premiere)
- 2012.11.13 Away From Home
- Roots & Wings Oliver Caplan ’04 (world premiere)
- Fern Hill John Corigliano
- At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners Williametta Spencer
- Exultate Deo Allesandro Scarlatti
- Hymn to St. Cecelia Benjamin Britten
- O Magnum Mysterium Tomás Luis de Victoria
- Ave Regina Coelorum Anton Bruckner
- Osculetur me osculo oris sui Giovani Pierluigi da Palestrina
- Tota pulchra es Palestrina
- Vox dilecti mei Palestrina
- Wade in the Water Traditional, arr. Moses Hogan
- Every Time I Feel the Spirit Traditional, arr. William Dawson
- Precious Lord Thomas A. Dorsey, arr. Arnold Sevier
- 2012.05.19 Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem (read the review)
- 2011.11.30 Handel’s Messiah (read the review)
- 2011.05.21 Be Thou My Comfort: The Healing Power of Music
- Chandos Anthem No. 6, As Pants the Hart for Cooling Streams George Frideric Handel
- If Ye Love Me Thomas Tallis
- Fürchte dich nicht J. S. Bach
- Ubi Caritas Olá Gjeilo
- This House of Peace Ralph Johnson
- Cantate Misericordium Benjamin Britten
- Alleluia (from Place of the Blest) Randall Thompson
- Chichester Psalms Leonard Bernstein
- 2010.11.30 J. S. Bach’s Weihnachts-Oratorium, Parts 1, 2, & 3
- 2010.05.29 Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra
- Symphony Nº 2 in C minor Gustav Mahler
- 2010.05.15 A Stranger in a Strange Land
- Missa Brevis in D Zoltán Kodály
- Belshazzar’s Feast William Walton
- 2009.12.01 Celebration for the Season
- Christmas Cantata Daniel Pinkham
- Ubi Caritas Maurice Duruflé
- Tota Pulchra Es Maurice Duruflé
- Water Night Eric Whitacre
- Rest Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Alleluia Randall Thompson
- Divine Cecelia Daniel Brewbaker (commission)
- Three Huguenot Psalms Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
- Il Est Né arr. Parker and Shaw
- Here, Mid the Ass and Oxen Mild arr. Alice Parker
- Still, Still, Still arr. Normal Luboff
- Music's Music Stephen Sametz
- My Lord, What a Mornin’ arr. Harry T. Burleigh
- Every Time I Feel the Spirit arr. Moses Hogan
- Deep River arr. Norman Luboff
- 2009.05.16 Handel Society of Dartmouth College
- Samson George Frideric Handel
- Last Letter Home Lee Hoiby
- Requiem for the Fallen Jonathan Leshnoff (joint commission)
- 2008.12.02 Celebration for the Season
- A Ceremony of Carols Benjamin Britten
- Lo, In the Time Appointed Healey Willan
- Bogoroditse Djevo Sergei Rachmaninoff
- O Magnum Mysterium Morten Lauridsen
- Hodie Christus Natus Est Francis Poulenc
- Wassail Song arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams
- I Saw Three Ships arr. Parker and Shaw
- Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella arr. Parker and Shaw
- Magnificat in D Johann Sebastian Bach
- 2008.05.17 Handel Society of Dartmouth College
- Carmina Burana Carl Orff
- 2008.03.02 Spring Bouquet (with the Yale Camerata and the Yale Schola Cantorum)
- Song of Songs Jonathan Leshnoff
- O vos omnes Cristóbal de Morales
- Festival Te Deum Benjamin Britten
- 2007.12.28-29 Celebration for the Season (with Helmut Rilling, guest conductor)
- Messiah George Frideric Handel
- 2007.05.19 Fire and Ice
- Nänie Johannes Brahms
- Choral Fantasy Ludwig van Beethoven
- Fire and Ice Andrea Clearfield (commission)
- 2007.03.03 A Salute to the Choral Arts Within the Ivy League (with the Yale Camerata)
- Benedicta Es Josef Rheinberger
- In Deo Speravit Rheinberger
- Abendlied Rheinberger
- Vier Notturnos Heinrich von Herzogenberg
- 2006.11.28 Celebration for the Season
- Venite populi Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Ave Verum Corpus Mozart
- Vesperae solennes de Confessore Mozart
- O Come, O Come Emmanuel arr. Parker and Shaw
- Ave Maria Tómas Luis de Victoria
- Alma Redemptoris Mater Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
- Fum, Fum, Fum! arr. Parker and Shaw
- Carol of the Bells arr. Peter Wilhousky
- Te Lucis Ante Terminum J. Aaron McDermid
- O Nata Lux Morten Lauridsen
- Wade in the Water arr. Moses Hogan
- Ain’t Got Time to Die arr. William Dawson