WMC 2026/2027 Season Tickets
Washington Master Chorale
"... a sound worth hearing" - Anne Midgette, The Washington Post
PATHWAYS OF LIGHT
Saturday, October 18, 5:00pm
Church of the Epiphany
Washington, DC
Our season opens with music that began in villages and ended in the concert hall. Dvorák set the folk songs of his own country with the gravity usually saved for scripture. Bartók walked into the Hungarian countryside and came back with treasure. Eriks Ešenvalds's Northern Lights rings on water-tuned glasses and power chimes. Washington Master Chorale's own Kabanya Vinson premieres an arrangement of All Creatures of Our God and King. And R. Nathaniel Dett, who found in Dvorák the permission to do the same for the music of his own people, closes the afternoon with The Chariot Jubilee for chorus, organ, and tenor.
ALL IS CALM, ALL IS BRIGHT
Friday, December 18, 7:30pm
St. Ann Catholic Church
Washington, DC
Sunday, December 20, 5:00pm
Church of the Epiphany
Washington, DC
Take away the organ. Take away the orchestra. What remains is the oldest sound there is. This year's Christmas program is entirely unaccompanied, moving from an anonymous medieval Puer Natus to new work by Mason Bynes and Christopher Hoh, from Holst's Nunc Dimittis to Ešenvalds's Stars, sung over tuned glasses and Tibetan singing bowls. William Dawson's Behold the Star and the carols you have known your whole life bring it home, and Silent Night closes the evening. Two performances, in two of Washington's most beautiful sanctuaries.
BRAHMS: A GERMAN REQUIEM
Sunday, March 7, 3:00pm
St. Ann Catholic Church
Washington, DC
In 1871, London heard Brahms's A German Requiem for the first time in a private drawing room; the composer's own arrangement for piano four-hands, played by Lady Thompson and Cipriani Potter for whoever could fit in the room. That is the version we are singing. Brahms set aside the mass for the dead and chose his own words of comfort instead: Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. With no orchestra between you and the singing, this is the Requiem at conversational distance. Come and sit close.