Concerts and Events

Department of Music

Calendar of Events

Spring 2023

 

Thursday, February 16, 12:30 pm

Chertsey Chamber Music

Beehive

Prior Performing Arts Center

 

Wednesday, February 22, 8 pm

Chertsey orchestra recital

Beehive

Prior Performing Arts Center

 

Tuesday Feb 28, 12:30 

Lunchtime concert

Rhapsody in Blue 

Robert Gardner, piano

Matthew Jaskot, piano

Luth Concert Hall

Prior Performing Arts Center

This lunchtime concert features Brooks Scholar Robert Gardner ('26) performing George Gershwin's iconic work, Rhapsody in Blue, in a two piano version with Professor Matthew Jaskot. Blending elements of jazz, blues, and classical music, Rhapsody in Blue is one of the most recognizable compositions in music history. Gershwin's Three Preludes will also be performed as an appetizer to the main course. The concert will be roughly thirty minutes long. Come join us to hear this brilliant music and to celebrate the two brand new Steinway Ds housed in the Prior Performing Arts Center!

Sponsored by the Prior Performing Arts Center and the Music Department

 

Wednesday, March 1, 8 pm

Holy Cross Wind Ensemble & Orchestra concert

Luth Concert Hall

Prior Performing Arts Center

Join us for an unforgettable musical journey as the Holy Cross Orchestra and Wind Ensemble come together to present a concert celebrating the theme of darkness and light. The performance will feature works by Joseph Bologne, Chen Yi, Niloufar Nourbakhsh, and Haley Woodrow, as well as film music from “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Dark Knight.”

 

Tuesday, March 14, 7 pm-This concert has been cancelled in person due to the snowstorm. 

Please watch the pre-recording of the concert on March 14 at 7 pm at this link https://linktr.ee/hcmusic

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series

Marie Rubis Bauer, Director of Music/Cathedral Organist 

Saint Cecilia Cathedral and Archdiocese of Omaha 

St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Stylus Fantasticus! Baroque expressions on the Taylor & Boody

 

Tuesday March 21, 12:30 pm

Lunchtime Concert

Ari Kiirikki, flute 

Joe Cracolici, cello

The Beehive

Prior Performing Arts Center

This lunchtime concert features a unique version of Robert Schumann's song cycle Dichterliebe, performed by Brooks Scholars Ari Kiirikki ('25) and Joseph Cracolici ('23) on flute and cello in the intimate setting of the Prior Center Beehive. They will be joined by Matthew Jaskot (piano). Heine's poetry will also be read by members of the German Studies Department. The concert will be about 30 minutes long.

Sponsored by the Prior Performing Arts Center and the Music Department

 

Thursday, March 23, 5:30 pm

Chertsey Tile Exhibit concert 

Chamber Singers

The Beehive

Prior Center for Performing Arts

Come join us for an exciting mini-concert of music inspired by the intersection of religion and culture demonstrated in the Chertsey Tile exhibit. Each musical selection is connected to Jerusalem, exploring broader themes of cross-cultural influences and outsider perspectives of people passing through. We will be singing music by the 9th-century Byzantine nun, Kassia, as well as a selection from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, a piece by Gesualdo, and a prayer for peace based on an ancient Sufi melody.

 

 

Wednesday, March 29, 1 pm

Chertsey Chant recital

Chants from a Benedictine Monastery

Beehive

Prior Performing Arts Center

The Gregorian Chant class of Prof. Daniel DiCenso, directed by Laurence Rosania, Director of Music & Liturgy, will present "The Office of Nones" , a brief example of  midday prayer sung in monasteries of the Middle Ages.    The service itself -- based on the Benedictine Rule -- might have been something heard in 1250 at Chertsey Abbey around the time the tiles were created, giving us a link through music to this medieval masterpiece.

 

Saturday, April 1, 4 pm

Holy Cross College Choir 

Celecstial Harp

St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Live-Stream available athttps://linktr.ee/hcmusic

The College Choir will be performing sacred music inspired by the harp. Our program includes a rousing selection from Joseph Hadyn Creation: “Awake the Harp,” followed by César Franck’s heavenly Panis Angelicus, accompanied by the harp. The harp appears as the subject of the traditional hymn, Hark I Hear the Harps Eternal, in an arrangement of the Sacred Harp tune by Alice Parker, and Rollo Dilworth’s hopeful and buoyant arrangement of Little David, Play on Your Harp. Our program will culminate with the exquisite Requiem by Gabriel Fauré. At times transcendent, powerful, ethereal; Requiem contains breathtaking examples of the composer’s most gorgeous melodic writing and rich orchestral colors.

 

Tuesday, April 4, 12:30 pm 

Lunchtime Concert

Blues, Jazz & Funk

Student Jazz Quartet

Rhiannon Hurst, vocals

Jesse Carson, guitar

Matt Irving, bass

Koe Bolat, drums

The Beehive

Prior Performing Arts Center

Come and hear an eclectic collection of music ranging from blues, to jazz, to funk! Vocalist and Brooks Scholar Rhiannon Hurst ’25 will be joined by Jesse Carson ’23 on guitar, Matt Irving ’26 on bass, and Koe Bolat ’23 on drums. Sponsored by the Prior Performing Arts Center and the Department of Music. 

Sponsored by the Prior Performing Arts Center and the Music Department

 

Tuesday, April 11, 8 pm

Brooks Scholar concert

Brooks Concert Hall

This recital features the Brooks Scholars, the Department of Music's full-tuition scholarship program for students with outstanding academic and performance/composition achievement.

 

Friday, April 14, 8 pm

Holy Cross Chamber Singers

STARS

St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Come join us for an evening of music about those great heavenly bodies: radiant, sparkling, luminous stars. We are thrilled to be joined by friends within the department and across campus to bring you musical expressions of what humans have felt for centuries looking up at the stars: humility, awe, hope, wonder. In the secular texts we will be sharing with you, the stars

 

Saturday, April 15, 4 pm

Rhiannon Hurst

Solo Jazz recital

Brooks Concert Hall

 

Tuesday, April 18, 7 pm

Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series

Gavin Klein ‘26, Organ Scholar

St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Rising star Gavin Klein performs his first recital at the Holy Cross.

 

Sunday, April 22, 2 pm

Senior recital

Carina Gregori Asadourian, soprano

Brooks Concert Hall

 

Tuesday, April 25, 8 pm

Jazz Ensemble concert

Brooks Concert Hall

 

Wednesday, April 26, 8 pm

Holy Cross Orchestra & Holy Cross Choirs

Academic Conference Concert

St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

Live-Stream available athttps://linktr.ee/hcmusic

 

Friday, April 28, 4 pm

End of Semester Student Recital

Brooks Concert Hall

 

Saturday, April 29th, 2 pm

Senior recital

Mia Beviglia, piano

Brooks Concert Hall

 

Saturday, April 29th, 4:30 pm

Senior recital

Joseph Cracolici, cello

Brooks Concert Hall

 

Sunday, April 30th, 2 pm

Senior recital

Natasha Rollo, soprano

Brooks Concert Hall

 

Monday, May 1, 8 pm

Chamber Music Concert

Brooks Concert Hall

 

Tuesday, May 2, 8 pm

Senior recital

Anthony Cash, tenor

Brooks Concert Hall

 

Wednesday, May 3, 8 pm

Holy Cross Wind Ensemble

Luth Concert Hall

Prior Performing Arts Center

Live-Stream available athttps://linktr.ee/hcmusic

 

Thursday, May 4, 6 pm

Fifth Annual Gregorian Vespers

St. Joseph Memorial Chapel

 

Saturday, May 6, 7:30 pm

Gamelan Gita Sari Concert

Boroughs Theater

Prior Performing Arts Center