All concerts this season will be at The Church of the Ascension, Fifth Avenue at Tenth Street in Greenwich Village, New York City.
Once again the church will be lit by hundreds of candles as the Voices of Ascension presents four centuries of Christmas music.
These two sumptuous French works will showcase Ascension's magnificent new Manton Memorial Organ built by Pascal Quoirin of France.
The St. Matthew Passion is one of the most revered and written-about works in all of Western Music. This is our first performance of this cherished work in many years.
In perhaps the most unusual program we have ever presented, we offer four works that have nothing in common with each other, except that each, in its own way, has an inner core of spirituality.
This year, our Renaissance program traces the richest choral tradition in European history — works by Dufay, Busnois, Ockeghem, Josquin, Isaac, Lassus, and others.