Upcoming Concerts
An Evening of Sacred Chant: A Millennium of Soaring Mystical Sound
Apr 28, 20247:30 pm - 9:30 pm
An Evening of Sacred Chant: A Millennium of Soaring Mystical Sound
Directed by Rip Jackson
Sunday, April 28, 2024, at 7:30 PM
First Parish in Lexington
Come and center inward, touching your deepest, truest self, as you are enfolded in the peaceful, healing, transcendent music of sacred chant—mystical music ancient and modern from Western, Eastern, and African traditions—performed by the First Parish Festival Choir and guest soloists, and directed by Rip Jackson. The evening’s candlelit program will include Gregorian chant, antiphons by Hildegard Von Bingen, Medieval polyphony, Renaissance masterpieces, Russian Orthodox hymns, Hindu mantras, African sacred music, and modern mystical a capella music. The concert will take place on Sunday, April 28, 2024 at 7:30 PM at First Parish in Lexington. A free-will offering will be received, and public parking is available in the rear of the church. For more information, email music@fplex.org.
A Bel Canto Soirée
Jun 9, 20247:00 pm - 9:00 pm
First Parish in Lexington presents
A Bel Canto Soirée:
Songs, duets and instrumental compositions by Maria Malibran and
Pauline Viardot, sisters-extraordinaires of the Romantic Era.
Sunday, June 9, 2024 at 7:00 PM
7 Harrington Road, Lexington, MA 02421
This June, you are invited for an elegant soirée where you will be able to experience first hand some of the most admired compositions by the ingenious sisters Maria Malibran and Pauline Viardot as performed by Julia Jaffe (mezzo) and Yunona Tabala (soprano), in collaboration with Rip Jackson (piano) and John Rogler (cello). Dashing vocal performers, brilliant composers, elegant socialites, intellectuals, friends of Liszt, Chopin, George Sand, Turgenev and Saent-Saens – without these two women, American and European artistic scenes as we know them today would not have been the same. Sisters, and daughters of the imposing Spanish pedagogue Manuel García, Malibran and Viardot each left an indelible mark on nineteenth-century opera with their virtuosic performances. A free-will offering will be received, and public parking is available in the rear of the church. For more information, email music@fplex.org.
Ludwig van Beethoven’s Mass in C and Symphony No. 6, “The Pastorale” Directed by Rip Jackson
Nov 10, 20243:30 pm - 5:30 pm
First Parish in Lexington presents Ludwig van Beethoven’s Mass in C and Symphony No. 6, “The Pastorale”
Directed by Rip Jackson
Sunday, November 10, 2024, at 3:30 PM
The First Parish Festival Choir, soloists and large symphonic orchestra, directed by Rip Jackson, will present Ludwig van Beethoven’s Powerful Mass in C and evocative Symphony No. 6, “The Pastorale.” The concert will take place on Sunday, November 10, 2024 at 3:30 PM at First Parish in Lexington, at 7 Harrington Road, Lexington, MA 02421. A free-will offering will be received, and public parking is available in the rear of the church. For more information, email music@fplex.org.