Welcome to the WVC 2024-25 Season
Our 2024-25 season, starting in December, includes three concerts at our home at Judson Memorial Church!
Unless otherwise noted, concerts and events take place at (or start from) Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South (at Thompson Street), NYC. Accessible entrance is available around the corner at 243 Thompson Street.
Requiem
Saturday, March 22, 2025 at 5:00pm
Advance Tickets: $30 General / $20 Student
At the Door: $35 General / $25 Student
Advance purchase is strongly recommended.
Sonia Headlam, Soprano
Justin Beck, Bass-Baritone
Requiem creates a dialog between two pieces for chorus and orchestra: the beloved Requiem of Gabriel Fauré and Seven Last Words of the Unarmed a recent (contemporary) work by Joel Thompson (b. 1988). Thompson’s work adapts the traditional setting the “Seven Last Words from the Cross” to explore the tragedy and complex emotions of the final words of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and four other Black men whose untimely death came at the hands of those sworn to protect and serve. Fauré’s Requiem—long a staple of choral repertoire—provides the counterpoint with its focus on eternal rest and consolation.
Transatlantic
Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 5:00pm
Our final concert of the 2024-2025 season draws on music from the old and new worlds, acknowledging the impact of European colonialism on Latin American choral music and celebrating the musical heritage of spirituals and gospel music in North America. This concert features compositions by underrepresented Renaissance and 20th century composers—including Modesta Bor, José Maurício Nunes Garcia, Vincente Lusitano, and Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla—contemporary American composers Arianne Abela, Jake Runestad, and Brandon Williams, and spiritual arrangements by Marques Garrett, Jester Hairston, and Moses Hogan.
Previously this Season:
Holiday Concert: Dwell In Unity
Friday, December 20th, 2024 at 7:30pm
Join the West Village Chorale for our annual holiday concert, which this year will focus on themes of unity and peace. In addition to works by Abbie Betinis, Leonard Bernstein, Mark Miller, and Zanaida Stewart Robles, the centerpiece for this concert will be Margaret Burk’s This Holy Hour for harp and chorus, a gorgeous modern-day take on the Ceremony of Carols featuring new imaginings of traditional carols and new poetry by Charles Anthony Silverstri.