Ticketed Events

Brahms/Sphinx Virtuoso

Friday, March 20, 8 pm

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Ballade

Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto 

Rubén Rengel, violin
2018 Sphinx Competition Winner

INTERMISSION 

Johannes Brahms
Symphony No. 4

Approximate concert length: 1 hour, 50 minutes including one intermission

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Chorus Spring Concert: Passover & Eastertide

Saturday, April 18, 8 pm

Mah Nishtanah
arr. Joshua Jacobson

L’Dor Vador
Meir Finkelstein, arr. Joshua Jacobson

Lo Yisa Goy
arr. Michael Isaacson

Samachti B’Omrim Li
Charles Osborne

Yom Gila
arr. Simon A. Sargon

Y’susum Midbar
David Zahavi, arr. Alice Parker

Sim Shalom
arr. John Leavitt

Praise God, Halleluyah! 
(from Psalm 150 of The Psalms Project)
Robert Schoen

Elohim Hashivenu
Salamon Rossi

Help Us, O Lord (from Four Motets)
Aaron Copland

The Song of the Sea
Cory A. Weiss

Go Down, Moses
arr. David Eddleman

INTERMISSION

Selections from St. Matthew Passion
Johann Sebastian Bach

Selections from Israel in Egypt
George Frideric Handel

1. He smote all the first-born
2. He led them through the deep
3. But the waters overwhelmed their enemies
4. And Israel saw

Selections from The Messiah
George Frideric Handel

1. He trusted in God that He would deliver Him
2. Since by man came death
3. Worthy is the lamb that was slain

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Amy Beach / Underground Railroad

Friday, May 15, 8 pm

Symphony in E minor, Op. 32 “Gaelic”
Amy Beach

INTERMISSION

Sanctuary Road
Music by Paul Moravec
Libretto by Mark Campbell
Inspired by William Still’s “The Underground Railroad Records”
Commissioned for and by The Oratorio Society of New York through the generous support of Joanne Spellun

Hope Briggs, Soprano
Melody Wilson, Mezzo-soprano
Noah Stewart, Tenor
Phillip Harris, Baritone

Oakland Symphony Chorus
Dr. Lynne Morrow, Chorus Director

Approximate concert length: 2 hours, including one intermission

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