Oratorio Society of New York (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Oratorio Society of New York is a non-profit membership organization which performs choral music in the oratorio style. The Society was founded in 1873 by Leopold Damrosch, and it is New York City's second oldest cultural organization. Kent Tritle was appointed as the Society's 11th music director in January 2006, succeeding Lyndon Woodside who died the previous year. The Oratorio Society presented its first concert on December 3, 1873. One year later, on Christmas night, the Society began what has become an unbroken tradition of annual performances of Handel's Messiah (at Carnegie Hall, since its opening in 1891). In 1884 Andrew Carnegie joined the Society's board of directors, serving as its president from 1888 to 1919.