2015-16: Our 44th Season

Signature Works: Vivaldi, Bach, Mozart  |  November 7-8, 2015
Antonio Vivaldi’s Gloria may be his best-known choral work. Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cantata 140 (“Wachet Auf”) is one of his two greatest surviving cantatas. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart considered his Mass in C (later called the Coronation Mass) to be among his best.
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G.F. Handel: Messiah  |  December 12, 2015
Christine Noel conducts the Rhode Island Philharmonic, Providence Singers, and soloists in the ninth annual December performance of Handel’s masterwork, part of the city’s holiday performance tradition.

The British Are Coming!  |  March 5-6, 2016
British Choral tradition from the 20th and 21st centuries: Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gerald Finzi and others, including pieces commissioned for the wedding of HRH Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Kate Middleton.
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Bernstein and Sondheim  |  April 16-17, 2016
Music composed for the musical theater and concert hall by two giants of modern American composition: West Side Story, Candide, Into the Woods, more.
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Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 9  |  May 6-7, 2016
The Ninth Symphony has marked so many historic events that the United Nations added Beethoven’s autograph to its Memory of the World Programme Heritage list, the first musical composition so honored. The Providence Singers will join the Philharmonic for two performances: Friday, May 6, and Saturday, May 7, 2016.