The Gold Rush
SUN | MAY 4, 2025 @ 3 PM
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Crossing Boundaries
SUN | FEB 23, 2025 @ 3 PM
Handel's Messiah
SUN | DEC 8, 2024 @ 3 PM
3-Concert Series
Handel's Messiah
Dec 8, 2024
Crossing Boundaries
Feb 23, 2025
The Gold Rush
May 4, 2025
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Maria Manzo | Conductor
Bravo! Northwest Chamber Choir
Northwest Chamber Orchestra
VENUE: The Madeleine Church
George Frideric Handel’s MESSIAH is a musical tradition of the Christmas season. Handel composed this music in just 24 days - an astonishing and epic artistic feat. For many people, Handel’s MESSIAH is “Holiday entertainment” – like a Mannheim Steamroller Christmas show. Other people consider it one of the great masterpieces of Western music. And why not? It tells a dramatic story with songs that are memorable for their emotional power and beautiful melodies, like the instantly recognizable Hallelujah Chorus. One thing is true – nearly 300 years after it was composed, Handel’s MESSIAH continues to inspire listeners and musicians with its beauty and genius. Our Bravo! Chamber Choir, soloists and Orchestra are led by conductor Maria Manzo.
Bravo! Concerts Northwest presents LIVE concerts in Portland Oregon and concerts in Vancouver of classical, jazz, sacred, pop and chamber music. It features one of the best choirs in Portland.
Presenting Great concerts of classical, jazz, sacred, and contemporary music
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Maria Manzo, Piano
Bravo! Northwest Chamber Choir
Michael Kissinger, Conductor
with Jazz Quartet
Venue: Old Madeleine Church
In 1924, George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue revolutionized modern American music, by blending jazz with classical music. Gershwin captured the American spirit and the “Jazz Age” of the 1920s with this now jazz classic. We celebrate the 100th anniversary of Rhapsody in Blue on this concert featuring pianist Maria Manzo and clarinetist Michael Kissinger. ALSO on the program are two other jazz pieces for choir and jazz combo: Dave Brubeck’s masterpiece for choir and jazz quartet, To Hope: A Celebration featuring the Bravo! Northwest Chamber Choir and jazz quartet; and the premiere of Michael Kissinger’s Jazz Psalms for Peace. If you LOVE jazz – this concert is for you!
Bravo! Chamber Choir
Elysium Quartet
- Tatiana Kolchanova - Violin
- Collin Oldham - Cello
- Maria Manzo - Piano
- Michael Kissinger - Clarinet
Venue: Old Madeleine Church
3 pieces – 2 Northwest composers – 1 Divine inspiration. J.S. Bach composed Cantata #12 Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen (Weeping, wailing, fretting, fearing)for the third Sunday after Easter in 1714. The Gospel reading for that Sunday is John 16:16-23 and is one of the “Farewell Discourses” Jesus gave his disciples prior to his crucifixion. Jesus tells them they would experience sorrow and tribulation, but their grief would turn into joy.
Bach’s music has inspired composers from his day to the present. Damien Geter, interim Music Director of the Portland Opera, was inspired by Bach’s Cantata #12 to compose Cantata for a More Hopeful Tomorrow. Written for choir, soloist, and cello, Getter composed his Cantata during the pandemic. It blends Bach’s music with American spirituals and expresses the process of moving from fear to hope.
Our third piece is the world premiere of Jot – The Ultimate Light by Northwest jazz pianist and composer Jasnam Daya Singh. Inspired by his Sihki faith, Jot is dedicated to the idea of the “Divine Light.” Composed for our Elysium Quartet (piano, clarinet, violin, cello) Jot – The Ultimate Light blends jazz and classical styles. Join the Bravo! Chamber Choir and Elysium Quartet as we cross boundaries of Classical, Spirituals, and Jazz in this musical trilogy.