Soli Deo Gloria is celebrating its 20th Anniversary season of creating classical sacred music in the biblical tradition. WATCH THE "MEET SDG" VIDEO
Read more...SDG's 20th Anniversary season includes concerts in New York, Chicago, Amsterdam and many places in between. CHECK OUT UPCOMING EVENTS
Read more...SDG has a growing library of critically acclaimed DVDs of sacred masterworks conducted by John Nelson. VIEW DVD TRAILERS.
Read more...SDG's annual Chicago Bach Project for 2014 is Friday, April 11: Bach's St. Matthew Passion, BWV244
Read more...For the ultimate celebration of classical sacred music, join the SDG celebration in New York, May 2014.
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St. Matthew Passion - "A Music Drama for Today"
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Two-hundred and eighty-seven years to the date of the first performance of J. S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion in 1727, the Chicago Bach Project returned to the beginning of its cycle of Bach masterworks on Friday, April 11, 2014, to offer the "Great Passion" to a resoundingly appreciative audience at the Harris Theater in Millennium Park (Chicago) and to a world-wide audience via live streaming on 98.7 WFMT.com.
World Premiere of James MacMillan's St. Luke Passion
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James MacMillan’s new hour-long setting of the St Luke Passion has been many years in the making. Soli Deo Gloria is a co-sponsor of the commission, along with the Concertgebouw / Zaterday Matinee series, Duke University, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and the Britten Sinfonia. The completion of this work brings MacMillan one step closer to fulfilling his lifetime goal of setting all four of the Gospel Passion accounts to music.
New York Gala for SDG's 20th Anniversary
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The highlight of Soli Deo Gloria's 20th anniversary season is a May 2014 gala in New York City. Special events include the U.S. premiere of SDG's co-commissioned James MacMillan's Since it was the Day of Preparation at St. Barthlomew's Church, and the New York Philharmonic / Westminster Symphonic Choir performance of the SDG-commissioned Requiem by Christopher Rouse at Carnegie Hall.