Oct 12, 2018 Asbury First United Methodist Church
The Rochester Oratorio Society Chorus and Orchestra
Schubert Mass in G
Gjeilo Luminous Night of the Soul
Mendelssohn Cantata from “Hymn of Praise”
December 2, 2018 – Port of Rochester
A City Sings for the Season
The Rochester Oratorio Society Chorus
The Hochstein Youth Singers, Maryellen Giese, Director Borinquen Dance Theatre, Nydia Padilla Rodriguez, Founding Artistic Director
The Mt. Vernon Missionary Baptist Male Chorus, Br. Thomas Green, Director
Spiritus Christi Gospel Choir, Paul Boutté, Director
ROCMusicCollaborative
Benefiting those in need, donations of a personal care item, food, or clothing were collected to benefit Action for a Better Community. Sponsored in part by Nocon & Associates, a private wealth advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Advisors, Canandaigua National Bank, and Henderson Family Ford Foundation.
February 8, 2019 – Hochstein Performance Hall
The Rochester Oratorio Society Chorus
The Hochstein Youth Singers, Maryellen Giese, Director
Jeff Tyzik “Psalm 150”
John Rutter “Mass of the Children”
April 5, 2019 – Hochstein Performance Hall
The Rochester Oratorio Society Chorus and Orchestra
RITA Collective, Kristen Shiner McGuire
Roberts Wesleyan Chorus
Rochester East High School Choir, Jodi Zajkowski, Director
Karl Jenkins “The Peacemakers”
Contemporary Welsh composer, Karl Jenkins, CBE, sets some of humanity’s most compelling texts in this 73-minute, multi-media, world-music masterpie ce. The Roberts Wesleyan College Choir, the Rochester East High School Choir and the ROS sing words of peace by the Dalai Lama, Ghandi, Terry Waits, Rumi, Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King and many others, to the accompaniment of RITA collective’s brilliant multi-instrumentalist.s For our fourth annual collaboration with the University of Rochester Humanities Center, we welcome the Rochester Public Library, Thomas Warfield and PeaceArt, NTID, and Writers & Books to our community-wide commemoration celebrating national poetry month. Sponsored in part by the Rochester Area Community Foundation.
