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This 2024-2025 season is the 125th Anniversary of RCS! Please join us for an in-person celebration on Friday and Saturday May 2 and 3, 2025 in Cambridge, MA. Click the “125th Anniversary” tab above for more info!

For many of us, memories of singing and touring with RCS are among the most meaningful of our Radcliffe and Harvard experiences. The Radcliffe Choral Society Foundation (RCSF) is dedicated to supporting the activities of the current Choral Society, strengthening the RCS community, and honoring our shared experiences and proud traditions.

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Nov 22 Harvard-Yale Football Concert, plus virtual watch party!

Enjoy an evening of music at the 123rd Annual Harvard-Yale Football Concert with the Radcliffe Choral Society, Harvard Glee Club, and Yale Glee Club, on Friday, November 22 at 8pm. All three ensembles will present eclectic works from various traditions, styles, and eras — concluding with the classic Harvard and Radcliffe fight songs to rally up the spirit before The Game!

Date: Friday, November 22, 2024 

Time: 8:00 p.m. ET

Location: Sanders Theatre and YouTube

Address: 45 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA 02138

Tickets: Free–Reserve Free Tickets Here

Livestream Link: Watch Here on YouTube

Virtual Watch Party: You are Invited!

RCSF is hosting a Football Concert watch party via Zoom. Please enjoy our online gathering with fellow alums totally free (audience chatting welcomed!)

RSVP to: rcsfgeneral@gmail.com for the Zoom link

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RCS at Symphony Hall Nov 17

On Sunday, November 17 at 3:00pm, RCS will perform Gustav Holst’s The Planets with Boston Philharmonic. The program also includes Purcell’s Chacony in G minor and the Elgar Cello Concerto. For tickets and further information, please visit: https://www.bostonphil.org/concerts/2024-2025/bpo2-elgar-holst

 

 

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RCS Oct 26: Within Our Reach

RCS Presents Within Our Reach

Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 8:00pm

Sanders Theatre and via Livestream

Join the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and guest artist, tenor Fred VanNess, and the Radcliffe Choral Society for an evening of choral music featuring works by Undine Smith Moore, Reena Esmail, Adolphus Hailstork, Zoltán Kodály, Rosephanye Powell, and others.

$15 General Admission, free for students with Harvard I.D.

Purchase Tickets Here

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RCS Sings Mahler on Sat Oct 5

RCS sings Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 in D minor
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Under the baton of HRO Music Director Federico Cortese, the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra will be opening their 217th season with the most extensive of Gustav Mahler’s nine symphonies, featuring world-renowned mezzo-soprano Alexis Peart and the Radcliffe Choral Society.

The fourth movement, Sehr Langsam-Misterioso, features text from Friedrich Nietsche’s Also sprach Zarathustra. Below is an except translated from German to English:

O Man! Take heed! What says the deep midnight?
“I slept, I slept —,
from a deep dream have I awoken: —
the world is deep,
and deeper than the day has thought.
Deep is its pain —,
joy — deeper still than heartache.
Pain says: Pass away!
But all joy seeks eternity —,
— seeks deep, deep eternity!”

Join us or tune in to hear this work.

Date: Saturday, October 5, 2024 
Time: 8:00 p.m. ET
Location: Sanders Theatre and WHRB 95.3 Radio
Address: 45 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA 02138
Tickets: $25 General Admission, Free for students with Harvard ID

Click Here to Listen on WHRB 95.3 Radio
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RCS’ 125th Anniversary Season is this year!

The 2024-2025 season is RCS’ 125th Anniversary Season! Please join us in Cambridge, MA on Friday, May 2, and Saturday, May 3, 2025 for 125th anniversary festivities!

Friday, May 2, 2025: RCS concert in Sanders Theatre at 8pm, preceded by a brief social gathering for RCS singers, alums, and friends. 

Saturday, May 3, 2025: All-day RCS reunion celebration of the 125th anniversary, including a conducted sing of RCS music across the eras, participation by past musical directors, food, drink, and socializing.


If you have questions or are interested in volunteering, please email us at rcsf125@gmail.com.

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May 31 Recap

The May 31 event went off swimmingly! We had 55 attendees — alums from RCS years 1964-2024, lots of energy and socializing, terrific food, amazing singing, and a lot of positive sentiment going into the 125th anniversary year. We hope you’ll join us for May 2-3, 2025 next year!

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RCSF (all RCS alums) Annual Meeting 2024

Please attend the annual meeting this Saturday June 8, 1-2:15pm (ET) by Zoom. The agenda is forthcoming. We have a video of Anika Christensen ‘26 reflecting on the past season and a lot of good info to share about RCS’s 125th Anniversary, and the next season with ADCA Hana Cai.

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RCS at 125! Kicking off a Year of Celebration

Friday, May 31, 2024, 5-6:30pm

Paine Hall Room 9

3 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA 02138

Calling all Radcliffe Choral Society alums! Join fellow choristers to kick off our commemoration of 125 years of soprano-alto choral music at Radcliffe and Harvard. Following the 4-Choir Sing including members of all Harvard Choruses (Memorial Church, 3-5pm), RCS alums and current students will gather for an early evening of song, socializing, and light refreshments, with 125th anniversary memorabilia available for all who join. Don’t miss this special alumni-weekend affair!

Click here to register for the RCS event from 5-6:30pm

Click here to register for the 4-Choir Sing from 3-5pm

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Harvard Choruses: A Light in April

Friday | April 26, 2024 | 8:00pm

Sanders Theater and via Livestream

A Light in April is a combined concert of the Harvard Choruses featuring guest conductor Sydney Guillaume who will lead performances of his works. His intricate and spirited musical language, often calling on his roots in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, inspires the rest of the program, and calls us to celebrate our human connection and capacity for joy. Reserve free tickets here.

Part of Harvard’s annual ARTS FIRST Festival.

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RCS & HGC Spring Concert: The Music I Hear

The Harvard Glee Club presents the world premiere of THREE SPIRITUALS arranged by Dr. Brandon Waddles—who will be leading these works—and performs selections from two other countries famous for their lower-voice choirs, Germany and Wales. 

The Radcliffe Choral Society welcomes you into the affinity spaces of Jocelyn Hagen’s Moon Goddess, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s Sister Songs, Melissa Dunphy’s Wild Embers, and Katerina Gimon’s Fire, among others. In this treble-celebratory program, we hear the music of power and struggle, ferocity and wisdom, dancing and shouting.

The concert will culminate in jazz & operatic selections that combine the forces of both choirs.
Purchase tickets here or watch via livestream.

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