Commissions

What (Only) Music Can Do

By Richard Knox Charles Darwin was prescient about many things, but music was a black box to him. He couldn’t figure out why humans...

Imagining a Better World:The Music of Oliver Caplan

By Richard Knox When Oliver Caplan first encountered “Cloud Anthem” – Richard Blanco’s poem reimagining humans as clouds, rain,...

As We Gather at the River:Transcending Our Sorrows, Resuming Our Joys

At last: Live music performance, in person, unmasked and undistanced!

World Premiere: Voices of the Silenced

The New Hampshire Master Chorale has often worked to present narrative concert experiences that take our audiences on a journey exploring...

Songs of Hope - June 15/16

Written by Richard Knox Hope is the theme of the New Hampshire Master Chorale’s spring concerts, on June 15 in Concord and June 16 in...

Into Our Bounded Fields of Time

A Meditation on Time and Human Existence Time is the ocean we all swim in…infinite, invisible as air. We spend lifetimes trying to find...

NH Master Chorale presents "Time in our Voices"

TIME in OUR VOICES Featuring a newly commissioned work by Boston composer Oliver Caplan The New Hampshire Master Chorale, one of the...

NH Master Chorale Concert Encompasses All of Life

The New Hampshire Master Chorale’s spring concerts, on June 17 in Concord and June 18 in Plymouth, embrace life’s gamut. The program,...

Eve, Absinthe, Alice: A Conversation with Oliver Caplan

Boston-based composer Oliver Caplan chose three poems of Ruth Kessler’s for his new choral work, Eve Absinthe Alice, commissioned by the...

Eve, Absinthe, Alice: A conversation with Ruth Kessler

The three poems set by composer Oliver Caplan as Eve, Absinthe, Alice - commissioned by the New Hampshire Master Chorale and to be...

Giving Voice to Women: New Hampshire Master Chorale Weaves a Rich Choral Tapestry from Female Perspe

The opening program of the New Hampshire Master Chorale’s 14th season is all about women. There are choral settings of poems written from...