7th Street Concerts Presents: Sublime Music of the 20th Century
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Sunday, Mar 17, 2024 5pm - 6:30pm
Location
St. Peter's Episcopal Church
115 w 7th Street
Enter through the glass doors on 7th St.
Park in garage across from the church on 7th Street. Free parking with validation.
Details
7th Street Concerts: Sublime Music of the 20th Century
The St. Peter’s Choir
directed by Rob Burlington and Andrew Pester
Jordan Wilson, Baritone
Anna Lenti, Soprano
Elizabeth Lenti, Organ
Sublime, intense, visceral: The full-body experience of the reverberant C.B. Fisk Organ and the 30-voice St. Peter’s Choir will fill your senses with sounds of joy, sorrow, and wonder. This concert features the St. Peter’s Choir, under the direction of Rob Burlington and Andrew Pester, in a concert of 20th-century French music for choir and organ. The program will include Maurice Duruflé’s sublime Requiem and Francis Poulenc’s Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence. Anna Lenti, soprano, and Jordan Wilson, baritone, will be the featured soloists. At St. Peter's Episcopal Church, enter through the glass doors on 7th St. and ushers will guide you to the historic sanctuary. Doors open at 4:30 with a reception including complimentary refreshments and time to enjoy the historic St. Peter's church.
Anna Lenti is an active choral conductor, music educator, and soprano who specializes in early music and the works of JS Bach. Praised by the New York Times for her “beguiling soprano”, Anna has appeared as a soloist in Vivaldi’s Gloria and Handel’s Dixit Dominus with Fairfield County Chorale and Orchestra, joined New York Polyphony for a concert of Italian music at the Amherst Early Music Festival, performed for an interdisciplinary installation at the Matthew Barney Art Studio, and appeared as a soloist with TENET on their Praetorius Vespers program. Anna performs regularly with Bach Vespers at Holy Trinity, The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, The Choir of St. Luke in the Fields, Clarion Music Ensemble, Sounding Light, Manhattan Chorale, Great Music in a Great Space, and Apollo’s Fire. From 2015-2019 Anna worked as a full-time Upper and Middle School Music Teacher at Kent Place School in Summit, NJ, where she directed various vocal ensembles and taught courses in general music.
Dr. Jordan Wilson is Assistant Dean of the Honors College, and Associate Professor of Music at Wingate University, near Charlotte, North Carolina. Originally from the Raleigh area, he received both a BM in Vocal Performance and Music Theory and an MM in Vocal Performance from the Eastman School of Music. As an avid recitalist, while he attended Eastman he was the 2010 winner of the Jessie Kneisel German Lieder competition. Dr. Wilson also received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Vocal performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. While there, he also studied linguistics, and has research interests in the intersection of linguistics and singing in several languages. Dr. Wilson previously served on the faculty of Missouri Southern State University in Joplin, Missouri.
7th Street Concerts is a new curated concert series in residence at St. Peter's Episcopal Church bringing a wide range of exciting and surprising concerts exploring all corners of classical music, right in the heart of Uptown. Each concert will also include a community outreach event, bringing world-class musicians straight to people without the opportunity to hear these concerts, in shelters, schools, hospitals, and more.
