“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.” --- Henry David Thoreau By Richard Knox OK, raise your hand if you’ve never had a terrible,...

- By Richard Knox Music is an emotive art. It can arouse a gamut of feelings, touching parts of our soul beyond logic and analysis....

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...

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

by Richard Knox True to its title, Seven Last Words of the Unarmed contains only the last utterances of the murdered men, as gleaned from...

By Richard Knox We live in a troubled time. The world is beset by worries about a brutal European war with an unimaginable outcome. At...

(1970-2014) Hannah Bessette is a Music Educator and NHMC Soprano from Newmarket, NH. Performance Details Sunday, June 19th 2022 4:00 PM...

(1986-2009) Oscar Grant III Is and always will be 22 years old. He lived his life in Oakland, California born to mother Wanda Johnson and...

Trayvon Benjamin Martin (1995 - 2012)

By Richard Knox Every last one of us has had, or will have, an encounter with the Sacred Veil of which the New Hampshire Master Chorale...

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

Dear New Hampshire Master Chorale Friends, We were holding out hope that we might be able to rejoin you in the concert hall for our June...

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

Considering Matthew Shepard touches each part of my identity: Mother, Wife, Friend, Teacher, Singer...

By Brad Dumont and Will Gunn. As part of New Hampshire Master Chorale's ongoing community work, MC singer Brad Dumont joined MC singer...

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...

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...

It begins with one A hundred A thousand A hundred thousand A million. A multitude of murmuring birds flying together A savant wave of...

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

The Heart of the Singer: A Contemporary Lament And the Redeeming Power of Music By Richard Knox Master Chorale devotees won’t be...