WOS Fall 2025 Concert

Our Fall Performance will be dedicated to the memory of our dear friend Dean Travalino.

Green & Golden

A concert in two colors: the green of memory & the gold of eternal light.

 

John Corigliano  Fern Hill

Maurice Duruflé  Requiem

This Fall's program traces a single arc across two different works: Corigliano's Fern Hill and Duruflé's Requiem. The title 'Green and Golden' is drawn directly from the texts themselves, rather than more conventional 'memorial' language. Dylan Thomas's poem, which gives Corigliano's piece its text, remembers childhood as a place of unthinking abundance, days when the narrator was "young and easy… green and carefree, famous among the barns."

"Time let me play and be golden in the mercy of his means…under the apple boughs about the lilting house and happy as the grass was green."

Fern Hill is memory looking backward at innocence: green, growing, not yet touched by the knowledge of time's passing. But the Requiem looks the other direction. Its ancient text asks not for a return to youth, but for arrival at rest and light: "Lux aeterna luceat eis" (Let eternal light shine upon them). Where Fern Hill's green is the color of a life's beginning, the Requiem's gold is the color of its end — not diminished, but radiant.

Together, the two works span one end of life to the other: green to gold, beginning to arrival. This arc – and the community's love for one of our own, Dean Travalino – gives this program its theme as we honor his life and the memory of all who have passed.

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Our Spring Concert 2026

Pagans, Pitchforks & Psalms

AN ALL MENDELSSOHN PROGRAM

Mendelssohn - Verleih uns Frieden & Der 42. Psalm

Recorded Saturday, May 9th, 2026

Mendelssohn - Die erste Walpurgisnacht

Recorded Saturday, May 9th, 2026

Arts Alive LogoArts Alive Project Grants are made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program (DEC), a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the NYS Legislature and administered by ArtsWestchester.NYS CA Logo

NYCT LogoThis performance is made possible with a grant from the New York Community Trust.

The New York Community Trust is New York’s largest community foundation, serving New York City, Long Island, Westchester, and beyond. For more than 100 years, The Trust has brought together the local knowledge and diverse expertise of its team and nonprofit and philanthropic partners to support thriving and equitable communities and help donors champion the causes they love. The Trust makes approximately $200 million in grants each year from its charitable funds set up by individuals, families, foundations, and corporations.