CONCERTS

Fall

​Composed amidst the turmoil of Napoleonic Europe, Haydn’s Mass in D Minor (“Lord Nelson”) is an operatic rollercoaster from despair to hope. It is paired with Bernstein’s colorful Chichester Psalms, a powerful setting of Hebrew psalms of struggle and compassion scored for brass, percussion, and strings. Short works by Bruckner and Mendelssohn round out this emotional program.

Date/Location TBD

December

Handel’s Messiah is performed by Octavo Singers annually in December. Fresh and inspiring year after year, it has been an audience favorite and a treasured annual tradition for decades and is not to be missed!

December 13, 2025 at 3 pm
Nott Memorial Chapel, Union College

Spring

​Truly a hidden gem of symphonic choral literature, Holst’s The Cloud Messenger is a 45-minute masterpiece based on some of the most beautiful imagery of Classical India by the poet Kalidasa. Through Holst’s own evocative English translation, it tells the story of a genie exiled from paradise, who, beseeching the clouds to send a message of love to his soul mate in heaven, weaves a fairy-tale epic of passion and devotion. Together with Brahms’ Schicksalslied, his ‘mini-requiem’, this romantic and sweeping program will be sure to stir the soul. Other short works TBD.

April 25, 2026 (Time TBD)
Nott Memorial Chapel, Union College