Join HRCM for an open rehearsal Tuesday, September 2 from 4:15 to 6:30 PM in Lowell Lecture Hall (north of Memorial Hall, across Kirkland Street). All welcome.

HRCM’s first regular concert of the year will occur on Saturday, November 1 at 8:00pm, with the Radcliffe Choral Society. The concert will feature a cappella works, including Herbert Howells’ Requiem.

Alice Parker & Joyful Noise Residency

Harvard University | April 11–12, 2014
Exploring the neurological, therapeutic, and social benefits of community singing

Concert: “Boundless Realms of Joy”

Friday, April 11, 2014
Sanders Theatre, 8pm

Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum | Joseph Fort, conductor
Joyful Noise | Allison Fromm, conductor
Brattle Street Chamber Players
Alice Parker, guest conductor

Celebrated chorus Joyful Noise, composed of adults with significant physical and/or neurological disabilities, joins the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and the Brattle Street Chamber Players in Sanders Theatre on Friday, April 11. Renowned conductor, composer, and educator Alice Parker will lead the choruses and audience in works that speak to the power of music for wellness and community.

Buy tickets from a member of the Collegium or through the Harvard Box Office:
Holyoke Arcade from 12–6pm, Tuesday-Sunday; for information, call 617-496-2222 or visit www.ofa.fas.harvard.edu/boxoffice.

“Boundless Realms of Joy” continues on Saturday morning with a symposium featuring widely acclaimed participants, speakers, and the Joyful Noise chorus itself.

Symposium: Beyond the Concert Hall

Saturday, April 12, 2014
Lowell Lecture Hall, 9am–4pm

Celebrating the choral art and its role in society, featuring distinguished speakers and the Joyful Noise chorus in conversation with Andrew Clark, Director of Choral Activities, Harvard.

Musicians, researchers, and disability advocates will explore the intersections of music and disability, neuroscience, wellness, and community. Alice Parker and Joyful Noise will lead symposium attendees in song.

For more information, visit the event website at http://www.music.fas.harvard.edu/choral.html
and Facebook event page at https://www.facebook.com/events/579488498810041.

The Collegium is very honored to have been selected to perform at this February’s Eastern Division conference of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA).  The group is looking forward to performing in Baltimore at ACDA, and we plan to make stops in Philadelphia and D.C. as well.  We’ll be traveling from February 6-9; if you are interested in seeing or helping to host the Collegium during that time, please contact our ACDA Tour Manager, Peter Nelson, at pnelson@college.harvard.edu.

The Collegium Musicum performed Arvo Pärt’s Passio Domini Nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem on Good Friday with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, delivering “heartfelt choral singing [that] gave the piece most of its color and emotional drama.” (Boston Globe)

Read more about our performance from The Boston Globe, the Boston Classical Review, and The Boston Musical Intelligencer.

“[T]he Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, directed by Andrew Clark, gave a highly successful performance… surmounting this masterpiece’s great linguistic and musical challenges while making a deeply moving musical statement.” Read the full review of Collegium’s 40th Anniversary Concert here.

New DCA Andrew Clark was recently interviewed by the Harvard Arts Beat, the weekly arts newsletter put out by the Office for the Arts. In it he talks about his journey to Harvard and his plans for his first season with the Holden Choirs, as well as his long-term goals for the choirs. Read the interview here.