The Lighter Side of Christmas
Just because we’ve entered the New Year doesn’t mean the Christmas season is technically over. Christmas is still on, right up until the Feast of the Epiphany, when Christians celebrate the revelation...
View ArticleBach's Mass in B Minor
This week on the Choral Mix, Kent Tritle features a landmark in the choral repertoire, J.S. Bach's stunning Mass in B Minor. We're transported to another world where the soul is filled with happiness,...
View ArticleJewish Sacred Music for High Holy Days
As the Jewish high holidays are celebrated, Kent Tritle shines light on the broad choral repertoire of that tradition. We hear works by Ernest Bloch, Samuel Adler, Yehudi Wyner and Koussevitzky, among...
View ArticleA Folk Celebration
Folk music has served as inspiration to almost every composer in history. But when Béla Bartók came along, he took the folk influence to a whole new level.Bartók began to take an interest in Hungarian...
View ArticleTygers and Lambs
This week's show opens with a creatures' chorus celebrating Saint Francis of Assisi's Feast Day. Host Kent Tritle offers some poems and settings referencing God and creation. William Blake’s seminal...
View ArticleChoral Sounds from NYC Composers
New York City is a place that's ripe with raw artistic energy. This week on the Mix, we explore the variety of styles and sounds from the city's composers, ranging from Ned Rorem and David Lang to Nico...
View ArticleWhen Music is About Music
Choral composers through the ages have set texts about music as a kind of one-two punch. Consider the Psalm 150, a text that urges the congregation to celebrate God through singing and dancing. As we...
View ArticleChoral Thrillers for All Saints Day
Today on The Choral Mix, a spooky assortment of choral thrillers for the week of Halloween and All Saints' Day (Nov. 1). We hear portrayals of ghosts in a locked cathedral, settings of Edgar Allen Poe,...
View ArticleMusical Americana
On this edition of The Choral Mix, American Democracy shapes the playlist. Traditional early American tunes, reflections on shape-note singing culture and a contemporary musical compositions honoring...
View ArticleChoral Cornucopia
On this Choral Mix, we give thanks for choral music. We spin classics of Haydn and Mendelssohn, a thankful work from Eric Whitacre and a new release of the great Polish composer Henry Gorecki.Haydn's...
View ArticleChristmas in New York
On this edition of The Choral Mix, we celebrate Christmas from New York with choral music from several of the city's finest vocal ensembles. We play classic recordings from the New York Philharmonic,...
View ArticleO Magnum Mysterium
On this edition of The Choral Mix, we celebrate Christmas with a comprehensive look at the ways composers have portrayed the mystery and wonder of Jesus in the Manger surrounded by the animals looking...
View ArticleSongs of Mary
This week on The Choral Mix, host Kent Tritle devotes the hour to masterpieces inspired by the Magnificat, also known as the Song of Mary.Frequently performed during church services, the Magnificat is...
View ArticleAn Orthodox Christmas Celebration
Many New Yorkers in the Orthodox Christian tradition haven’t actually celebrated their Christmas yet. On this edition of The Mix we celebrate music from the Orthodox Christmas tradition.Today, we hear...
View ArticleWomen in the Choral Arts
On this edition of The Choral Mix, we focus on the music of women over the last century. Over the past few generations, the works of women composers have gained their rightful place in the world of...
View ArticleMessages
This episode of The Choral Mix presents deeply emotional themes. Words from the war front, from soldiers, from the home front of their loved ones. Words from the holocaust: the Diary of Anne Frank, and...
View ArticleHistorically Black College Choirs
On today’s mix, we honor the African America tradition by sampling some of America’s leading college choirs: music from the Tuskegee Institute, Morehouse College, Morgan State University, Rust College...
View ArticleAt the Heart of the Romantic Era
Brahms' Requiem, Franz Liszt's Christus and Rossini's Messe Sollenelle are all masterworks wonderfully representing the era, but with an intriguing connection: they were conceived and composed while...
View ArticleAfrican American Choral Composers
On this edition of The Choral Mix, Kent Tritle explores compositions of contemporary African Americans. Also featured is this week's Choral Story from David Hurd, a native New Yorker who makes his...
View ArticleA Mix of Female Choral Composers
Today on The Choral Mix, a Ghost Story set to music, works of British suffragette and pioneering composer, Dame Ethel Smyth, and American Grammy award winning composer Libby Larsen.This episode begins...
View ArticleRemembering Conductor Eric Ericson
On this episode of The Choral Mix, we consider the musical life of Eric Ericson, the legendary Swedish choral conductor who died on Feb. 16 at age 94.Over five decades, Ericson was associated with...
View ArticleHallelujahs Through the Ages
On this week's show, we celebrate Hallelujahs through the ages: Hallelujahs from Handel’s oratorios; Hallelujahs from the sacred Jewish tradition; Hallelujahs from Tallis and Bach to Taverner and...
View ArticleSurvey of New Releases
On this week's edition of The Choral Mix, Kent Tritle takes stock of new releases in the choral arts. Tune in for works of Alma Mahler, Purcell and Rachmaninoff, performed by groups from Australia,...
View ArticleIn Choral Music, It's Not Only a Man's World
On this edition of The Choral Mix, we focus on the music of women over the last century. Over the past few generations, the works of women composers have gained their rightful place in the world of...
View ArticleCivil War-Era Choral Masterworks
Brahms' Requiem, Franz Liszt's Christus and Rossini's Messe Sollenelle are all masterworks wonderfully representing their era, but with an intriguing connection: they were conceived and composed while...
View ArticleHistorically Black College Choirs
On today’s Mix, we honor the African America tradition by sampling some of America’s leading college choirs: music from the Tuskegee Institute, Morehouse College, Morgan State University, Rust College...
View ArticleA Benjamin Britten Centennial
This edition of The Choral Mix is a choral tribute to Benjamin Britten in honor of his centennial. Born in 1913, he would have been a 100 years old this year.Benjamin Britten introduced many young...
View ArticleChoral Hit Parade
On this season finale of The Choral Mix, we celebrate with a choral hit parade of heavy hitting works from Mahler, Handel, and Bruckner. Three of Mahler's nine symphonies contain choral music. They are...
View ArticleViva Verdi
On this week’s program, Kent Tritle presents a mix of Verdi’s best choral music. We hear portions of his colossal Messa da Requiem and some of his most famous opera melodies, including choruses from Il...
View ArticleGuided by Mozartian Voices
On this episode of The Choral Mix, host Kent Tritle presents his essential Mozart choral works, ranging from the delicate Ave Verum Corpus to the ebullience of the Coronation Mass. We hear classic...
View ArticleChoral Americana
Today the Choral Mix offers a musical salute to the American spirit, with composers who have gone to the well of American folk and religious traditions and, in their own way, created something new and...
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Voices of Gratitude
With the Thanksgiving weekend upon us, now is the time to reflect on the things we're grateful for: our families, our friends, our communities. Today’s program features choral music that expresses...
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