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In its first concert of 2025, Dessoff celebrates founder Margarete Dessoff and her directorship of women’s choirs. Dessoff programmed Schubert’s Psalm 23 and Brahms’ Vier Gesänge für Frauenchor for her choirs in Germany before introducing the music to her choirs in New York in the 1920s. Now, The Dessoff Choirs brings these works back to audiences, and Maestro Merriweather sings works for baritone: Strauss’s Zueignung and Schumann’s Widmung. Continuing its mission of unveiling choral orchestra works of Black women composers, Dessoff will additionally perform a new edition of Florence Price’s Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight.

Richard Strauss

Alma Mahler

Clara Schumann

Robert Schumann

Frédéric François Chopin

Johann Sebastian Bach

Franz Schubert

Johannes Brahms

Florence Price

PROGRAM
Zueignung

Lob des Leidens

Laue zommernacht

Sie Liebten sich beiden

Widmung

Nocturne, op. 55, No. 2

Durch Adams Fall ist ganz verderbt (BWV 637)

Psalm 23, op. 132, D. 706

Vier Gesänge für Frauenchor op. 17

Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight


The Dessoff Choirs
Malcolm J. Merriweather, conductor, baritone, organ
Steven Ryan, piano

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