Prior Performing Arts Center, College of the Holy Cross
Theater & Performing Arts
1 College St, Worcester, MA 01610
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Upcoming Events (25)
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Autumn Jazz Sophie Rose Riopel ‘29, Brooks Scholar Lunchtime Concert Series Department of Music Details Oct 21, 202612:00 p.m. Price Free General Admission Venue “The Beehive” AtriumPrior Performing Arts Center Parking Free parking, registration required. CLICK HERE to pre-register for visitor parking. Brooks Scholar Sophie Rose Riopel (saxophone & voice) performs a set of jazz standards inspired by the musical partnership between Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderley, whose 1962 album collaborat
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Holy Cross Wind Ensemble Nightfall Department of Music Details Oct 23, 20267:30 p.m. Price Free General Admission Venue Luth Concert HallPrior Performing Arts Center Parking Free parking, registration required. CLICK HERE to pre-register for visitor parking. The Holy Cross Wind Ensemble presents Nightfall, a concert inspired by the changing season and the transition from day into night. As October gives us darker evenings, the program takes listeners through autumn landscapes, shifting light, an
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Holy Cross Choir with guest composer Tõnu Kõrvits Funded by The Patrick E. Moriarty, M.D. ’57 Visiting Scholars Program Department of Music Details Oct 25, 20263:00 p.m. Price Free General Admission Venue St. Joseph Memorial Chapel Parking Free parking, registration required. CLICK HERE to pre-register for visitor parking. The Holy Cross College Choir will be performing a program of music from Scandinavia and the Baltics, featuring Kreek’s Notebook by Award-winning Estonian composer Tõnu Kõrvits
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Traditional Irish Music in Dinand & Fenwick Libraries Department of Music Details Oct 28, 202612:00 p.m. in Dinand Library2:00 p.m. in Fenwick Library Price Free General Admission Venue Dinand & Fenwick Libraries Parking Free parking, registration required. CLICK HERE to pre-register for visitor parking. Diarmuid Ó Meachair and John Hannigan (Accordions) will be joined by acclaimed musicians Liz Knowles (Fiddle player) of New England Conservatory and Kieran O’Hare (master Uileann Piper & Flute p
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APPROPRIATE by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Department of Theatre & Dance Purchase Tickets Details Oct 29–Nov 8, 2026 Price $15 Public$10 Holy Cross Community Venue Boroughs TheatrePrior Performing Arts Center Parking Free parking, registration required. CLICK HERE to pre-register for visitor parking. The estranged Lafayette siblings reunite at their late father’s decaying Arkansas estate to settle his remaining debts and clear out the house. As they sift through decades
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Stay On It Lunchtime Concert Series Department of Music Details Nov 4, 20267:30 p.m. Price Free General Admission Venue “The Beehive” AtriumPrior Performing Arts Center Parking Free parking, registration required. CLICK HERE to pre-register for visitor parking. An ensemble of students and faculty present Julius Eastman’s infectious Stay On It, a minimalist classic that springs forth from a joyful, syncopated riff to more complicated textures that resemble free jazz. Composed for an open instrume
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Los Angeles Guitar Quartet This program is made possible by the Heidi Brake Smith ’82 Fund for the Arts. Purchase Tickets Details Nov 4, 20267:30 p.m. Price $45 | $65All-in Pricing Venue Luth Concert HallThe Prior Performing Arts Center Parking Free parking, registration required. CLICK HERE to pre-register for visitor parking. The Grammy Award-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ) is one of the most multifaceted groups in any genre. The LAGQ is comprised of four uniquely accomplished musici
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Clement Valla Jig Thinking / Artist Talk on artists and designers building their own tools, and what AI changes about that Beyond the Magic: AI Image Speaker Series Sponsored by the Ruettgers Grand Challenge Grant and Department of Visual Arts Details Nov 5, 20264:00 p.m. Price Free General Admission Venue Hogan 406/407 Parking Free parking, registration required. CLICK HERE to pre-register for visitor parking. Clement Valla is an artist interested in how machines and humans see. He works with s
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Sándor Kádár & Levente Kuzma Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series Department of Music Details Nov 10, 20267:00 p.m. Price Free General Admission Venue St. Joseph Memorial Chapel Parking Free parking, registration required. CLICK HERE to pre-register for visitor parking. Internationally recognized Hungarian organists join forces for a special performance on the world-renowned Taylor & Boody organ at Saint Joseph Memorial Chapel.
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Morton Feldman’s Triadic Memories Amy Williams, piano Funded by The Patrick E. Moriarty, M.D. ’57 Visiting Scholars Program Department of Music Details Nov 12, 20267:30 p.m. Price Free General Admission Venue Brooks Concert Hall Parking Free parking, registration required. CLICK HERE to pre-register for visitor parking. Morton Feldman’s extraordinary late solo piano work, Triadic Memories (1981), is a study in slowly evolving repetitions over the 75-minute duration. The composer described the pi
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Harmony of Nations: Songs from Around the Arab World Center for Arabic Culture‘s Jazal Choir & Music Ensemble Purchase Tickets Details Nov 13, 20267:30 p.m. Price $45 | $65All-in Pricing Venue Luth Concert HallPrior Performing Arts Center Parking Free parking, registration required. CLICK HERE to pre-register for visitor parking. Led by Arabic Studies faculty Alma Richeh, the Jazal Choir performs classical Arabic music as well as contemporary and modern Arabic songs. Their Harmony of Nations pro
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Organ Scholar Jessica Nguyễn ‘28 Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series Department of Music Details Nov 15, 20267:30 p.m. Price Free General Admission Venue St. Joseph Memorial Chapel Parking Free parking, registration required. CLICK HERE to pre-register for visitor parking. Join Holy Cross Organ Scholar Jessica Xuân-Mai Nguyễn ‘28 for an organ recital following the 11:30 a.m. Mass on Sunday, November 15. This program will feature works by J.S. Bach, Josef Rheinberger and more, free and open to all.
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Chamber Music Recital Department of Music Details Nov 17, 20267:30 p.m. Price Free General Admission Venue Brooks Concert Hall Parking Free parking, registration required. CLICK HERE to pre-register for visitor parking. Chamber music is played by small ensembles of two or more players such as duos, trios, quartets, etc., where every part is played by a single performer. Its intimate setting creates a process that is democratic, participative, and that across history has been compared to a conver
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Painting Creation Osvaldo Golijov, Prior Composer-In-Residence Alex Sopp, Prior Commissioned-Artist Reserve Tickets Details Nov 18, 20267:30 p.m. Price Free General Admission, Registration Required Venue Boroughs TheatrePrior Performing Arts Center Parking Free parking, registration required. CLICK HERE to pre-register for visitor parking. Join us for an informal exhibition of commissioned art works accompanied by a panel discussion between Prior Composer-In-Residence, Osvaldo Golijov, and Prior
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Ezequiel Menendez Holy Cross Chapel Artist Series Department of Music Details Nov 22, 20263:00 p.m. Price Free General Admission Venue St. Joseph Memorial Chapel Parking Free parking, registration required. CLICK HERE to pre-register for visitor parking. On the Feast of Saint Cecilia, Professor Ezequiel Menéndez will present an organ recital featuring works based on the chorale Our Father, Who Art in Heaven (Vater unser im Himmelreich). The program will explore a variety of musical settings of t
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Holy Cross Wind Ensemble Department of Music Details Nov 23, 20266:00 p.m. Price Free General Admission Venue “The Beehive” AtriumPrior Performing Arts Center Parking Free parking, registration required. CLICK HERE to pre-register for visitor parking. The Holy Cross Wind Ensemble will present a “Pop-Up” concert in The Beehive Atrium at The Prior Performing Arts Center. Join us for a light, informal program with the ensemble performing up close in one of The Prior’s most unique spaces.
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Forty-Eighth Annual Festival of Lessons & Carols Department of Music Details Dec 3, 20268:00 p.m. Price Free General Admission Venue St. Joseph Memorial Chapel Parking Free parking, registration required. CLICK HERE to pre-register for visitor parking. Please join us for the College’s Annual Festival of Lessons and Carols for Advent. This year’s service will take place in St. Joseph Memorial Chapel on Thursday, December 3 at 8 p.m. — free entry, open to all.
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