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Gabriel Kahane

Giving Voice to the Voiceless

Composer Gabriel Kahane confronts the experience of being homeless as Trinity’s music ensemble, NOVUS, dives heart first into a new season.
Compline

Compline

Set in the tranquility of St. Paul’s Chapel, 30 minutes of chant-based improvised music by Trinity Choir.
Edwidge Danticat

A Conversation with Edwidge Danticat

Novelist Edwidge Danticat joins us on October 22 to discuss "Brother, I'm Dying," a poignant memoir about how her immigrant Haitian family’s bonds of love survived distance, loss, and tragedy.
Amanda Ripley

High Conflict / Healthy Conflict

Journalist Amanda Ripley’s book, "High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out," introduces a mind-opening way of thinking about conflict that will transform how we move through the world.

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MusicMarch 3, 2024

Compline by Candlelight

Compline by Candlelight provides peace and stillness as one week ends and another begins. Enjoy 30 minutes of improvised music by The Choir of Trinity Wall Street with this week's podcast, featuring:

Love Bade Me Welcome – David Hurd
Renewal Concert in October 2023
FeaturedFebruary 29, 2024

“Holding Out Hope”: The Renewal Concerts

“Renewal is constantly part of who we are,” said composer Jessica Meyer, one of the artists behind the transformative “Renewal” concert series launched last year by Trinity’s new music orchestra, NOVUS NY. “Because if we are not slowly growing, we are slowly dying.”
Bach at One: St. John's Passion
MusicFebruary 28, 2024

Bach at One: St. John Passion

St. John Passion, BWV 245 Part 1
“O Mensch, bewein' dein' Sünde groß” from St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244

The Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Trinity Baroque Orchestra; led by Avi Stein.

MusicFebruary 25, 2024

Compline by Candlelight

Compline by Candlelight provides peace and stillness as one week ends and another begins. Enjoy 30 minutes of improvised music by The Choir of Trinity Wall Street with this week's podcast, featuring:

Hear my prayer, O Lord – Henry Purcell
Mozart Requiem
MusicFebruary 22, 2024

Mozart Requiem

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s final composition, Requiem, was finished after his death by his student Franz Xaver Süssmayr. According to his wife, Constanze Mozart, the ailing composer had come to believe he was writing the piece, initially commissioned by a German count, to be played at his own funeral — and indeed some sections were. Requiem was later performed at the funerals and commemorative services of Ludwig van Beethoven, Joseph Haydn, and Frédéric Chopin. 

Centuries later in 1960, “scraps of paper” containing Mozart’s unrealized ideas were discovered, prompting new versions of the Requiem.

Join us for Robert Levin's scholarly completion of this celebrated and emotionally stirring choral masterpiece, featuring Downtown Voices with The Choir of Trinity Wall Street.

Downtown Voices with The Choir of Trinity Wall Street featuring Sonya Headlam, soprano; Pamela Terry, alto; Timothy Hodges, tenor; Neil Netherly, bass; NOVUS NY; Stephen Sands, conductor
 

MusicFebruary 18, 2024

Compline by Candlelight

Compline by Candlelight provides peace and stillness as one week ends and another begins. Enjoy 30 minutes of improvised music by The Choir of Trinity Wall Street with this week's podcast, featuring:

The Day is Done – Stephen Paulus
Jazz Icons: Bobby Watson
MusicFebruary 11, 2024

Jazz Icons: Bobby Watson

Jazz icon Bobby Watson, in collaboration with JAZZ HOUSE KiDS, presented a special concert in Trinity Church.
 
Prolific saxophonist, composer, and educator Bobby Watson sits among the pantheon of jazz greats. As a bandleader, Watson has released numerous highly acclaimed albums, including Love Remains, Post-Motown Bop, and Tailor Made. He has played alongside Max Roach, Branford and Wynton Marsalis, John Hicks, and many other jazz pioneers. During his years as musical director for Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Watson contributed to fourteen recordings — more than anyone else in the group’s storied thirty-five-year history.

To this dynamic and supercharged concert, Watson brings an all-star band including Wallace Roney Jr., trumpet, Orrin Evans, piano, Essiet Okon Essiet, bass, and Victor Jones, drums.

For information about JAZZ HOUSE KiDS, visit jazzhousekids.org.

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