Auditions

Auditions are open for Assabet Valley Mastersingers. See the auditions page for more information.

May 18, 2025 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Hope and Prayers. W.A. Mozart: Vesperae solennes de confessore; Kenneth Fuchs: In the Clearing (text by Robert Frost). For more information, call 617-236-4011 or email executivedirector@coroallegro.org. Church Of The Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116 ⓘ 🔗

March 9, 2025 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: From Darkness to Light. Kareem Roustom: There Will Come Soft Rains; Greg Bullen: "The Orchard"; Shawn Kirchner: "Heavenly Home". For more information, call 617-236-4011 or email executivedirector@coroallegro.org. Church Of The Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116 ⓘ 🔗

November 17, 2024 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Forged in Fire. Zoltán Kodály: Missa Brevis; Bosba: i see others like me; Anton Bruckner: Three Motets. Jerrick Cavagnaro, organ. For more information, call 617-236-4011 or email executivedirector@coroallegro.org. Church Of The Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116 ⓘ 🔗

February 18, 2024 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Identity: I Believe. Margaret Bonds: Credo; William Grant Still: A Psalm for the Living; plus art songs, spirituals and gospel works by Harry T Burleigh, Horace Clarence Boyer, Thomas A. Dorsey, Jester Hairston, M. Roger Holland, II, J. Rosamund Johnson, Patrick Dupré Quigley and Reginald Mobley. Breanna Sinclairé, soprano; Reginald Mobley, countertenor; Philip Lima, baritone; David F. Coleman, piano. For more information, call 617-236-4011 or email executivedirector@coroallegro.org. Roxbury Community College, 1234 Columbus Ave, Boston MA 02120 ⓘ 🔗

November 19, 2023 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: IDENTITY: reclaimed. Alberto Ginastera: The Lamentations of Jeremiah; James MacMillan: Cantos Sagrados; Maurice Duruflé: Requiem. Clare McNamara, mezzo-soprano; Taras Leschishin, baritone; Eugene Kim, cello; Heinrich Christensen, organ. For more information, call 617-236-4011 or email executivedirector@coroallegro.org. Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116 ⓘ 🔗

May 7, 2023 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: The White Raven / Music for Troubled Times. Daniel Pinkham: The White Raven; Franz Joseph Haydn: Missa In Angustiis ("Lord Nelson" Mass); Diane White-Clayton: Many Mansions. For more information, call 617-236-4011 or email executivedirector@coroallegro.org. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ 🔗

March 12, 2023 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Fanfares. Daniel Pinkham: Fanfares; Christmas Cantata (Sinfonia Sacra); Ralph Vaughan Williams, Mass In G Minor; Shawn Crouch, Paradise (Boston Premiere). Matthew DiBattista, tenor; Heinrich Christensen, organ; Richard Kelley, Cheryl Przytula, trumpets; Hans Bohn, Robert Couture, trombones; Thomas Schmidt, Desiree Glazier-Nazro, percussion; Michael Weinfield-Zell, timpani. For more information, call 617-236-4011 or email executivedirector@coroallegro.org. Church Of The Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116 ⓘ 🔗

November 6, 2022 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Letters to Our Children: Voices across Generations for LGBTQ+ Youth. Andrea Clearfield: Here I Am: I Am Here (World Premiere); Ronald Perera: When Music Sounds; Ola Gjeilo: Dark Night of the Soul; Luminous Night of the Soul. Sonja DuToit Tengblad, soprano; Jonas Budris, tenor; Mimi Lemay, narrator; Sam Brinton, narrator. With the Arneis Quartet. For more information, call 617-236-4011 or email executivedirector@coroallegro.org. Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116 ⓘ 🔗

October 16, 2022 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Coro Allegro / Terezín Music Foundation [MA]: TMF 2022 Gala. Jeremiah Klarman: Sketch for Terezín/Does Grace (TMF commission, world premiere); Alban Berg: Sonata for Piano, op. 1; Arnold Schönberg: Six Little Piano Pieces, op. 19; Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, D. 960. Jonathan Biss, piano; Members of the Arneis Quartet (Heather Braun, violin; Daniel Doña, viola; Agnes Kim, cello). Tickets start at $175. For more information, call 857-222-8262 or email info@terezinmusic.org. Symphony Hall, 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston MA 02115 ⓘ 🔗

May 22, 2022 (Sunday)

7:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Letters to Our Children: Voices across Generations for LGBTQ+ Youth. Andrea Clearfield: Here I Am: I Am Here [World Premiere] (based on open letters by LGBTQ+ youth advocates Mimi Lemay and Sam Brinton); Ronald Perera: When Music Sounds; Ola Gjeilo: Dark Night of the Soul; Luminous Night of the Soul.Sonja DuToit Tengblad, soprano; Jonas Budris, tenor; Mimi Lemay, narrator; Sam Brinton, narrator; Yulia Yun, piano. with The Arneis Quartet. For more information, call 617-236-4011 or email executivedirector@coroallegro.org. Old South Church, 645 Boylston Street, Boston MA 02116 ⓘ 🔗

November 14, 2021 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Fauré Requiem and Other Works of Consolation. Gabriel Fauré: Requiem in D minor, Op. 48; Sivan Eldar: The Song About the Child; Craig Carnahan: Armistice 1918: Everyone Sang; Viktor Ullman: Eliahu Hanevi and Anu oli; Randall Thompson: Alleluia; R. Nathaniel Dett: The Chariot Jubilee (Davron Monroe, tenor). Adriana Ruiz, soprano; Aaron Engebreth, baritone; Heinrich Christensen, organ. For more information, call 617-236-4011 or email executivedirector@coroallegro.org. Church Of The Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116 ⓘ 🔗

May 17, 2020 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Letters to Our Children, Letters to Our Youth. Andrea Clearfield: commissioned work featuring letters to our children by Mimi Lemay, advocate for transgender children and Sam Brinton, advocate for LGBTQ+ youth and banning conversion therapy; Ronald Perera: When Music Sounds. For more information, call 617-236-4011 or email gm@coroallegro.org. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ 🔗

November 10, 2019 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: We Will Not Be Erased: a Veteran's Day Concert Honoring the Service of All. Florence Price: Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight; Melissa Dunphy: What do you think I fought for at Omaha Beach?; Craig Carnahan: Armistice 1918 (Everyone Sang). For more information, call 617-236-4011 or email executivedirector@coroallegro.org. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ 🔗

July 31, 2019 (Wednesday)

7:00 PM. One City Choir / Coro Allegro / Boston Landmarks Orchestra [MA]: Deep River. William Grant Still: Festive Overture; Traditional, arr. Bonds: "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho"; Traditional, arr. Bonds: "He’s Got the Whole World in His Hand"; Fred Onovwerosuoke: We Need to Talk; Jerome Kern: Show Boat in Concert; Morton Gould: Sprituals for Strings (excerpts). Christopher Wilkins, conductor. With Coro Allegro, One City Choir, Members of New England Spiritual Ensemble, and Boston String Academy. For more information, call 617-987-2000 or email info@landmarksorchestra.org. Hatch Memorial Shell, Charles River Esplanade, 47 David G Mugar Way, Boston MA 02108 🔗

June 2, 2019 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Rachmaninoff/Liturgy. Sergei Rachmaninoff, Liturgy of St John Chrysostom, Op. 31. For more information, call 617-236-4011 or email gm@coroallegro.org. Church Of The Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116 ⓘ 🔗

March 24, 2019 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: America/We Need to Talk. William Grant Still: And They Lynched Him on a Tree; Fred Onovwerosuoke: A Triptych of American Voices: A Cantata of the People (text by Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, and Michael Castro); Caprice for piano and orchestra. Tai Oney, countertenor; Jonas Budris, tenor; Darryl Hollister, piano. With the Heritage Chorale of New Haven. For more information, call 617-236-4011 or email gm@coroallegro.org. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ 🔗

November 11, 2018 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Vivaldi/Pärt. Antonio Vivaldi, Magnificat (RV 610); Gloria (RV 589); Arvo Pärt, Adam’s Lament; Magnificat. Dana Varga, soprano; Margaret Lias, mezzo-soprano. For more information, call 617-236-4011 or email gm@coroallegro.org. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ 🔗

May 20, 2018 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: The Struggle Continues. Patricia Van Ness: Psalms of Luminous Rescue (World Premiere); Eric Banks: Aluta continua: The passion of David Kato Kisule. Sonja DuToit Tengblad, soprano; Tai Oney, countertenor; Ron Williams, baritone. Tickets: $50, $35, $25, seniors/students: 20% off, student special $15. For more information, call 617-236-4011 or email gm@coroallegro.org. Church of The Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116 ⓘ 🔗

March 11, 2018 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Rage against the Tyrant. Kareem Roustom: Rage against the Tyrant (World Premiere)—based on street chants of the Arab Spring plus Arab and Arab-American poetry of resistance and exodus. For more information, call 617-236-4011 or email gm@coroallegro.org. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ 🔗

November 19, 2017 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Mozart's C Minor Mass. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Great Mass in C minor. For more information, call 617-236-4011 or email gm@coroallegro.org. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ 🔗

May 21, 2017 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Alleluia! A Celebration of 25 Years. Works by Rachmaninoff, Poulenc, Britten, Thompson, and others; world premieres by Patricia Van Ness and Peter Eldridge; Boston premiere by Jennifer Higdon. For more information, call 617-236-4011 or email gm@coroallegro.org. Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116 ⓘ

March 12, 2017 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: The White Raven: 10th Anniversary Pinkham Award Concert. Daniel Pinkham: The White Raven (Dana Varga, soprano); Franz Joseph Haydn: Lord Nelson Mass (Dana Varga, soprano; Clare McNamara, alto; Matthew Anderson, tenor; Thomas Jones, bass); Fred Onovwerosuoke, World Premiere (commissioned in honor of Coro Allegro accompanist Darryl Hollister, piano). For more information, call 617-236-4011 or email gm@coroallegro.org. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 ⓘ

November 13, 2016 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Magnificat. J.S. Bach: Magnificat; “Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied”, BWV 225; Samuel Barber: Agnus Dei; Zoltán Kodály: Norwegian Girls, Too Late, The Peacock; Christoph Willibald Gluck: “Melodie” from Orfeo (in honor of Coro Allegro concertmaster Kristina Nilsson, violinist). Teresa Wakim, soprano; Clare McNamara, alto; Jason McStoots, tenor; Thomas Jones, bass. For more information, call 617-236-4011 or email gm@coroallegro.org. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 ⓘ

May 22, 2016 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: We Are Here. Eric Banks: Aluta continua: The passion of David Kato Kisule (World Premiere). Reginald L. Mobley, countertenor; Philip Lima, baritone. With spirituals arranged by Jester Hairston and H. T. Burleigh and Gospel works arranged by Horace Boyer and Charles Albert Tindley. "Aluta continua," (the struggle continues) was the rallying cry for slain Ugandan LGBTI activist Kato and others fighting the homophobic campaign surrounding the notorious “kill the gays” bill that was inspired by US evangelical missionaries. Tickets: $50, $35, $25; seniors 20% off, students $15. For more information, call 617-236-4011. Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116 ⓘ 🔗

March 13, 2016 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Howard Frazin: The Voice of Isaac. With Boston City Singers and the Toronto Children's Chorus. David Kravitz, baritone. A retelling of the Abraham and Isaac story from Isaac’s perspective. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ

November 15, 2015 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: A Concert for Marriage Equality. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Requiem; Exsultate Jubilate (K. 165); Pablo Ortiz: Leaving Limerick; Paul Rardin: My Spirit is Uncaged; Julian Wachner: somewhere i have never traveled; Moses Hogan: The Battle of Jericho. Teresa Wakim, soprano; Clare McNamara, alto; Stefan Reed, tenor; Thomas Jones, bass. A Celebration of the Supreme Court Victory; A Requiem for Those Who Never Saw This Day. Tickets: $65, $45, $25, Seniors 20% discount, Student Special $15. For more information, call 617-236-4011. Sanders Theatre, Harvard University, 45 Quincy St, Cambridge MA 02138 ⓘ

May 17, 2015 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Infinite Majesty. Arvo Pärt: Te Deum; George Frideric Handel: Dixit Dominus. Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116 ⓘ

March 15, 2015 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Lenten Meditations. Théodore Dubois: The Seven Last Words of Christ; Francis Poulenc: Quatre motets pour un temps de pénitence; Johannes Brahms: Marienlieder. Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116 ⓘ

November 9, 2014 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: American Visions. Aaron Copland: “The Boatmen’s Dance”; “At the River”; “Promise of Living”; Andrew Bonacci: Auguries of Innocence; Irving Fine: The Hour-Glass; Alexander deVaron: Songs For a Waxing Moon (world premiere). a musical celebration of legendary choral conductor Lorna Cooke deVaron showcasing works by pioneering and contemporary American voices. NEC’s Jordan Hall, 30 Gainsborough Street, Boston MA 02115 ⓘ

June 1, 2014 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Baroque Gems. J.S. Bach: Jesu, Meine Freude, BWV 227; Isabella Leonarda: Motets; Jan Dismas Zelenka: Dixit Dominus; Anna Bon: Offertorium; Ardete amore. Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, Boston MA

March 30, 2014 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Annelies: Diary of Anne Frank. James Whitbourn: Annelies. Elissa Alvarez, soprano. Sanders Theatre, Cambridge MA 02138

November 24, 2013 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Reflections of Mercy. Benjamin Britten: Cantata Misericordium; Arvo Pärt: Berliner Messe; John Corigliano: Fern Hill; Anonymous: Ave Maria; Tomás Luis de Victoria: Ave Maria; Anton Bruckner: Ave Maria; Kevin Memley: Ave Maria. Krista River, mezzo-soprano; Stefan Reed, tenor; David Kravitz, baritone. Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116

June 2, 2013 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Coming Full Circle: Celebrating 20 Years with David Hodgkins. Franz Schubert: Mass in G (sung at the first concert under the baton of David Hodgkins); Jennifer Higdon: Southern Grace; Greg Bullen: The Orchard (World Premiere). With Andrew Garland, baritone, Gregory Zavracky, tenor, and Elissa Alvarez, soprano. As a special treat, we will invite former singers to join us on stage and sing with us again, making this season a true full circle! Plus, the presentation of the 6th annual Daniel Pinkham Award to David Hodgkins. Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, Boston MA 02116

April 7, 2013 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Ginastera: Lamentations of Jeremiah; Lee Hoiby: Last Letter Home; Peter Eldridge: Come Home; Franz Joseph Haydn: Mass in Time of War.. Sanders Theatre, Cambridge MA

November 18, 2012 (Sunday)

3:00 PM. Coro Allegro [MA]: Daniel Pinkham: Christmas Cantata; Benjamin Britten: Festival Te Deum; Francis Poulenc: Chansons Françaises; Zoltan Kodaly: Missa Brevis.. Church of the Covenant, 67 Newbury Street, Boston MA

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