Music at Trinity Wall Street Announces December Offerings

Music at Trinity Wall Street represents a high-water mark of the holiday season in New York City. December has long brought acclaimed annual performances of Handel's Messiah by the Choir of Trinity Wall Street and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra. In the words of the New York Times, "to experience the full, formidable range of Messiah...let Trinity be your guide." This season, Julian Wachner, Trinity's Director of Music and the Arts, will lead the ensembles in the Messiah at Trinity Church (Dec 17, 19, 21) and Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall (Dec 18).

Trinity Wall Street was instrumental in pioneering Handel's famous oratorio in the New World: Trinity Church presented the second American performance in 1770, besides playing a part in the American premiere of Messiah just eight months earlier and only blocks away at Burns's Coffee House on Broadway, where the concert served as a fundraiser for Trinity's organist. Given this history, it is fitting that it was with Messiah that Trinity Wall Street made its Lincoln Center debut three years ago, launching a new annual holiday tradition.

Dates/times/venues:
Wed, Dec 17 at 7.30pm; Fri, Dec 19 at 7.30pm; Sun, Dec 21 at 3pm: Trinity Church (Broadway at Wall St)

Thurs, Dec 18 at 7.30pm: Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center

Artists:
Trinity Baroque Orchestra; Choir of Trinity Wall Street; Julian Wachner, conductor

Program: George Frideric Handel: Messiah (complete)

Tickets: Dec 17, 19 & 21: $45, $75, $95; available from http://www.gemsny.org/trinity20142015.html
or at Trinity gift shop, Broadway/Wall St

Dec 18: $45, $65, $85; available from
https://tickets.lincolncenter.org/event/f5859ee4-1b58-42d5-9172-e6777150124f or from CenterCharge: 212.721.6500

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