Department of Music
Calendar of Events
Spring, 2022
Tuesday, February 1, 12:30pm
First Tuesday Lunch Concert (virtual offering)
featuring Marjorie Merryman’s “Four Images for Solo Cello”
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
Monday, February 14, 12:30pm
Music in the Gallery
featuring John Harbison’s “Suite for Solo Cello”
Cantor Gallery
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
Tuesday, February 22, 7:30 pm
Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series
Nathan Laube
St. Joseph Memorial Chapel
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
Not to be missed, maestro Laube commanding the Taylor and Boody organ at Saint Joseph Memorial Chapel.
Grammy winner, Nathan Laube, is a leading performer and pedagogue. He is on the organ faculty at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Stuttgart, Germany.
Wednesday, March 2nd, 1:00 pm (this concert was rescheduled due to snowstorm)
Afternoon Concert
Nostalgic and Eternal Visions
Matthew Jaskot, piano
Brooks Concert Hall
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
Pianist Matthew Jaskot performs music by William Grant Still, Paul McCartney (as played by jazz pianist Brad Mehldau), and Mary Kouyoumdjian. Still's Three Visions are an evocative rumination on the soul's journey after death. Mehldau's interpretation of the Beatles classic Blackbird is both delicate and alluring, and Kouyoumdjian's hauntingly beautiful Aghavni (Doves) follows the lives of a group of woman before, during, and after the Armenian Genocide.
Wednesday, March 2nd, 8:00 pm
Joint Wind Ensemble/Orchestra Concert
Classics from Broadway to the Silver Screen
Brooks Concert Hall
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
From Phantom of the Opera to Harry Potter, be sure to catch this performance of timeless movie and musical classics!
Tuesday, March 15, 8:00 pm
Stuart Gerber, percussion
Brooks Concert Hall
Stuart Gerber (praised by The New York Times as a musician of “consummate virtuosity”) presents an evening of music for percussion and electronics by Alvin Singleton, Emma O’Halloran, Eric Lyon, and a world premiere by Prof. Chris Arrell.
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
Saturday, March 19th, 7:30 pm
Matthew Luca, Organ Scholar
Senior Recital
St. Joseph Memorial Chapel
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
Friday, March 25, 8pm
College Choir Concert
Silver and Gold
St. Joseph Memorial Chapel
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
“Make new friends, but keep the old; one is silver and the other gold.” This famous round is the inspiration for our program, which will combine a world premiere and newly published music with beloved choral classics. The poetry of Holy Cross’s own Oliver de la Paz is being set by Canadian composer Patrick Murray in a piece composed specifically for the College Choir. We will also be sharing a newly published and long-lost work by African American composer Margaret Bonds, a setting of the Prayer of St. Francis (“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.”) These new works will be paired with beloved choral chestnuts such as “The Silver Swan” by Gibbons and the classic African American spiritual “Ev’ry Time I Feel the Spirit” by Dawson.
Thursday, March 31, 8 PM
Art Song Concert
Langston Hughes, Musical Inspiration
featuring Christon Carney, tenor
Brooks Concert Hall
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
American poet Langston Hughes has been an inspiration to countless composers over the past century. This program will feature settings of his poetry by four composers: Florence Price, Robert Owens, Jean Berger, and Margaret Bonds. Operatic tenor Christon Carney has performed with the Nashville Symphony, Nashville Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, Rhode Island Civic Orchestra and Chorale, and has won the Orpheus Vocal Competition, the Altech Vocal Competition, and the Harlem Opera Theater Competition. He holds a masters' degree from NEC and teaches in Worcester.
Monday, April 4, 12:30 pm
“Fire, Passion, Beauty:
Music of Domenico Scarlatti”
Laurence Rosania, Piano
Brooks Concert Hall
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
The brilliant music of Spanish composer Domenico Scarlatti ranks with the greatest of any age. It also provides a cultural lens on St. Ignatius Loyola in this special Ignatian Year. Although from different centuries, still the same passion, energy, and courtly ideals that motivated his countryman Ignatius can be found in Scarlatti’s dazzling keyboard works. His famous “Cat’s Fugue” is featured!
Friday, April 8, 8 pm
Chamber Singers Concert
Clash! Music of Struggle
Brooks Concert Hall
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
The Holy Cross Chamber Singers will present music about struggle and war in this pugnacious program! A movement from Bach’s cantata Christ lag in Todesbanden, Vittoria Aleotti’s thrilling Renaissance motet Exurgat Deus, contemporary composer Jonathan Woody’s sparkling “I Conquer the World with Words” and Moses Hogan’s famous setting of “Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho” are just a few of the exciting pieces on this program – don’t miss it!
Saturday, April 9, 1 PM
Senior Recital
Nickolas Rockwood, piano
Brooks Concert Hall
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
Thursday, April 21, 8 pm
Jazz Ensemble Concert
Brooks Concert Hall
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
Sunday, April 24, 3 pm
Percussion Ensemble Recital
Brooks Concert Hall
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
Wednesday, April 27, 7:00 pm
Holy Cross Spring Orchestra & Holy Cross Choirs
Academic Conference Concert
“Mendelssohn, Warlock, and Brahms:”
St. Joseph Memorial Chapel
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
The Holy Cross Orchestra and Holy Cross Choirs will join forces at the conclusion of the Academic Conference. This program will feature Mendelssohn’s famous Hebrides Overture, Warlock’s lively Capriol Suite, and Brahms’ beloved work Nänie for chorus and orchestra, a piece full of Classical references in which the gods mourn the transience of beauty. This joint concert promises to be an unforgettable musical experience.
Thursday, April 28, 8:00 pm
H-CLEF Concert
Brooks Concert Hall
Join the Holy Cross Laptop Ensemble Federation for a screening of MUSC 299: Principles of Sound Synthesis final projects combining sound with choreographed video.
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
Friday, April 29, 6 pm
Chamber Music Recital
Brooks Concert Hall
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
Saturday, April 30, 2:30 pm
Junior Recital
Joseph Cracolici, cello
Brooks Concert Hall
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
Saturday, April 30, 4:00 pm
Senior Recital
Chase Ackerson, violin
Brooks Concert Hall
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
Sunday, May 1st, 3:00 pm
Spring Wind Ensemble Concert
Something Old & Something New
Brooks Concert Hall
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
Join the Holy Cross Wind Ensemble performing works of Ralph Vaughan Williams, J.S. Bach, Julie Giroux and more.
Tuesday, May 3, 6 pm
End of Semester Student Recitals
Brooks Concert Hall
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
Thursday, May 5, 6 pm
Gregorian Vespers for the Ignatian Year
St. Joseph Memorial Chapel
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
For its fourth annual Gregorian Vespers, the combined Chant classes of Professor Daniel DiCenso will perform Gregorian Vespers for the Ignatian Year under the direction of Laurence Rosania, Director of Liturgy and Music. Over 50 singers will bring to life this ancient and haunting music in the majestic acoustics of the Chapel, inviting the listener into an otherworldly realm of sound.
Saturday, May 7, 7:30 pm
Gamelan Gita Sari
Brooks Concert Hall
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
Monday, May 9, 12:30 pm
Artist-in-Residence concert
Brooks Concert Hall
Featuring works by Matthew Jaskot, Shirish Korde and Osvaldo Golijov
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic
Tuesday, May 10, 4PM
Senior recital
Sadie O'Conor, soprano
St. Joseph Memorial Chapel
Live-Stream available at: https://linktr.ee/hcmusic