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The 23rd annual Summer Festival continues on Sunday, August 27, at 11 am with a performance of Franz Joseph Haydn's Missa Sancti Joanne de Deo. 

The 23rd annual Summer Festival of Sacred Music at St. Bartholomew's Church continues on Sunday, August 20, at 11 am with Missa Tournai from the Ars Nova period as well as music by Leonel Power from 15th-century England.

The Summer Festival of Sacred Music at St. Bart's continues on Sunday, August 6, at 11 am with a service offering the choral music of Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) and recognizing the profound influence his works had on choral music for over a century after his death.

The 23rd annual Summer Festival continues on Sunday, July 23, at 11 am with a service of music by Benjamin Britten.  

The 23rd annual Summer Festival continues on Sunday, July 9, at 11 am with a performance of Josef Gabriel Rheinberger's Missa Sincere in Memoriam, Op. 187 for women's choir and organ. 

In observance of the Independence Day weekend, the 23rd annual Summer Festival of Sacred Music at St. Bartholomew's continues with music by American Composers on Sunday, July 3, at 11 am.    

Blond Ambition's captivating debut album Slow All Over is out now on Swoon City Music. The solo pop project of former Ex Cops frontman Brian Harding, Blond Ambition's songs are astute dance-pop numbers

Blond Ambition's captivating debut album Slow All Over is out today on Swoon City Music. The solo pop project of former Ex Cops frontman Brian Harding, Blond Ambition's songs are astute dance-pop numbers

The New York Choral Society (NYCHORAL) under the direction of its Music Director David Hayes will give the New York Premiere of celebrated Scottish composer James MacMillan's St. Luke Passion. NYCHORAL will be joined by organist Jason Roberts as well as the remarkable Brooklyn Youth Chorus under Artistic Director Dianne Berkun Menaker. James MacMillan's St. Luke Passion, written in 2013, is the second of four planned works, each based on one of the Gospels which aim to approach the differing passion accounts from contrasting stylistic per-spectives. The concert will take place on Saturday evening, April 8, 2017, 8 pm  at the landmark St. Bartholomew's Church, at 51st Street and Park Avenue. The program follows:

?Great Music at St. Bart's, the concert series produced by the Mid-Manhattan Performing Arts Foundation (MMPAF), for the past six years has presented music in St. Bartholomew's Church, a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of New York located in the heart of midtown Manhattan. 

?Great Music at St. Bart's, the concert series produced by the Mid-Manhattan Performing Arts Foundation (MMPAF), for the past six years has presented music in St. Bartholomew's Church, a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of New York located in the heart of midtown Manhattan. 

Great Music at St. Bart's, the concert series produced by the Mid-Manhattan Performing Arts Foundation (MMPAF), for the past six years has presented music in St. Bartholomew's Church, a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of New York located in the heart of midtown Manhattan.  The magnificent 1918 Romanesque-style church features a portal designed by Stanford White and a grand Byzantine-style interior - and two of New York's unlikely but outstanding concert spaces:  the 150-seat chapel, an intimate and acoustically brilliant space that is perfectly suited for contemporary chamber music, and the majestic 1,000-seat sanctuary - outfitted with comfortable chairs enabling flexible seating - whose Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ is the largest in New York City and one of the finest examples of the American Classic Organ in the U.S.

The Really Big Chorus will perform Faure Requiem on Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 6pm at St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, 325 Park Avenue, New York, NY.

The 22nd annual Summer Festival continues on Sunday, July 17, at 11 am with a performance of Leos Janacek's Missa in E-Flat for choir and organ. Leos Janacek (1854-1928) was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style. His Mass in E flat was composed in 1908 and was intended as a model of Missa Brevis style for his compositions students at the Brno Conservatory. The musical material for this Mass was later incorporated into his monumental Glagolithic Mass, which used the Old Church Slavonic text. St. Bartholomew's Choir will be conducted by William K. Trafka. Jason Roberts will be the organist.

St. Bartholomew's Choir will sing Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms in an arrangement for organ, harp and percussion as well as Virgil Thomson's My shepherd will supply my need and McNeil Robinson's Missa Brevis. William K. Trafka will conduct the choir. Instrumentalists for the Bernstein will be Jason Roberts, organist, Frances Duffy, harpist and Samuel Lazzara, percussionist.  

This June 27-29, 150 all-star chefs will step out of the kitchen and onto the seat of a bicycle to ride 300 miles in three days along the California coast with Chefs Cycle for No Kid Hungry, an endurance-cycling fundraiser benefiting Share Our Strength's No Kid Hungry campaign.

?The 3rd Annual Ameripolitan Music Awards will be held Tuesday, February 16th, 8:00 pm at the historic Paramount Theatre, 713 Congress Avenue in downtown Austin, Texas with music legend and past Ameripolitan winner Ray Benson as host. Charley Pride (Master Award) will join Wanda Jackson (Founder of the Sound) and Red Simpson (Founder of the Sound) as special award recipients. Tickets are available at austintheatre.org, the Paramount Theatre box office, and by phone at (512) 474-1221. 

SAG-AFTRA President Ken Howard and SAG Awards® Committee Chair JoBeth Williams will announce the honorees for Outstanding Action Performances by Film and Television Stunt Ensembles

The 21st annual Summer Festival of Sacred Music at St. Bartholomew's Church continues on Sunday, August 30, at 11 am with Malcolm Archer's 'Christchurch' Mass sung by St. Bartholomew's Boy and Girl Choristers, who will also sing works by Mark Blatchly and John Dankworth.

The 21st annual Summer Festival of Sacred Music at St. Bartholomew's Church continues on Sunday, August 23, at 11 am with Missa 'O quam gloriosum' by Tomas Luis de Victoria.