RCS Foundation

Saturday | November 1, 2025 | 8:00pm
Sanders Theatre

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The Radcliffe Choral Society and Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum proudly present What Endures: Voices Through Time, a collaborative concert featuring Windborne, the acclaimed vocal quartet known for their fearless harmony and deep-rooted engagement with global folk traditions of resistance, resilience, and renewal. Together with guest artist Elitsa Stoyneva, an award-winning Bulgarian folk singer, the program draws inspiration from the Day of the National Awakeners—a Bulgarian holiday honoring those who preserve culture and awaken the spirit through music, education, and collective memory.

Spanning sacred choral works, spirituals, protest anthems, love songs, and contemporary reflections, the program explores how music sustains us—how it carries grief, ignites hope, and binds communities across time. Windborne shares dynamic arrangements from their own repertoire, taught in residency with the choruses, while music from varied traditions connects modern performance to ancestral memory. The Radcliffe Choral Society lifts up works by Antonio Vivaldi, Marques Garrett, Gerald Smith, Sarah Quartel, and Alberto Favero—celebrating joy, connection, and belonging. The Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum offers music by William Byrd, Arvo Pärt, Carlos Chávez, and Dale Trumbore, inviting us into a sound world shaped by spiritual perseverance, longing, and joy in stillness.

Together, these voices honor the stewards of song—mothers, poets, laborers, revolutionaries, and ordinary people—who have carried music forward not only as art, but as lifeline.

For more information, please visit the Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum and the Radcliffe Choral Society.

To Sing Fine Music: 125 Years of the Radcliffe Choral Society

at Loeb Music Library Historical Exhibit

The RCS Season ahead–please do join us in Cambridge!

Family Weekend Concert

with Radcliffe Choral Society and Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum

Saturday, November 1, 2025 | 8:00 PM EDT | ​Sanders Theatre, Harvard University​

Harvard-Yale Football Concert

with Radcliffe Choral Society, Harvard Glee Club, and Yale Glee Club

Friday, November 21, 2025 | 8:00 PM EST | Woolsey Hall, New Haven

World Premiere of Benedict Sheehan’s A Christmas Carol

Community Holiday Concert with Radcliffe Choral Society, Harvard Glee Club, Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, and Cambridge Common Voices

​Saturday, December 6, 2025 | 3:00 PM EST | Sanders Theatre, Harvard University​

Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society Spring Concert

Saturday, February 21, 2026 | 8:00 PM PM EST | Sanders Theatre, Harvard University

Harvard Choruses New Music Initiative Concert

with Ensemble Veritas

Thursday, April 30, 2026 | 7:30 PM PM EDT | Location TBD

Arts Fest Concert

Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana,” with Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society, Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, Ensemble Veritas, and professional orchestra

Friday, May 1, 2026 | 8:00 PM EDT | Sanders Theatre, Harvard University​

Farewell to Cambridge Concert

with Radcliffe Choral Society​

Sunday, May 24, 2026 | 2:00 PM EDT | Lowell Lecture Hall, Harvard University

Come sing with your fellow alums and share again in the magic of collective music at a reunion sing for alums of the Harvard University Choir, Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, Radcliffe Choral Society, and Harvard Glee Club. Repertoire probably including the Requiem by Fauré, conductor: Andy Clark.

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

plus – an informal reception for RCS alums in Science Center room 116 from 5-6pm

Politics, sex, religion, and power converge in the turbulent Massachusetts Bay Colony, culminating in the 1637 trial of Puritan Anne Hutchinson. In a gripping new opera by James Kallembach, this dramatic chapter of Boston’s history comes to life, delving into the roots of America’s unique political DNA. At its heart is the clash between midwife and spiritual leader Anne Hutchinson and Governor John Winthrop—a battle over public versus private, common good versus individual freedom, and law versus home.

This fictional operatic retelling interweaves communal singing from sources like the Bay Psalm Book, excerpts from Hutchinson’s meticulously documented trial, and an array of primary texts—from bawdy rhymes to iconic works of embroidery. John Winthrop, his wife Margaret, and Anne Hutchinson struggle to find meaning alongside Anne’s young protégé Mary and her lover Tom, who hope to escape to the promise of a life outside of Boston’s political and religious strife. Communal order, free-wheeling expression, and female oppression mete out consequences every bit as dire as those feared from God’s providence.

Commissioned by the Harvard Choruses, the world premiere of American Jezebel will be conducted by Dr. Hana Cai in a semi-staged concert performance. Soprano Sarah Joyce Cooper stars as Anne Hutchinson, with baritone Sumner Thompson as John Winthrop, and a talented cast of performers bringing this powerful story to the stage.

Saturday, March 1, 2025

8:00 pm ET

Sanders Theatre: 45 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA 02138

$25 General Admission, $10 Undergraduate Harvard Students, $50 VIP

Click Here to Listen & Watch via YouTube Livestream

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

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

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.

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