Conductor

Stephen Darlington, one of the United Kingdom’s foremost choral conductors, joins Mercer Singers and director Stanley Roberts in a choral tour-de-force of time-honored anthems by British composers and contemporary sacred selections from composers around the world.

Stephen Darlington: Cathedral Choral Classics

Mercer University

Question? Answer! They are finally coming together to make music together: our chief conductor Jonathan Darlington and his older brother, the celebrated concert organist and highly respected church musician from Oxford, Stephen Darlington. He has brought a work to Nuremberg that allows him to pull out all the stops of the Meistersingerhalle organ and his own art of organ playing. It is the breathtaking, overwhelming, but rarely heard in this country, organ symphony by the US national classic Aaron Copland, composed in the "Roaring Twenties". The organ symphony is contrasted with a "secret" symphony. Tchaikovsky's 3rd Suite is in fact a veritable symphony in terms of dimension and design, including waltzes and a sequence of variations. In between: the enigmatic orchestral piece "The Unanswered Question" by the pioneer of real American art music, Charles Ives. His question: where does music come from, where does music go? Our answer: Definitely from Tchaikovsky to Copland!

Conductor

Stephen Darlington

Events

Past events

Oct 17, 2025

Stephen Darlington: Cathedral Choral Classics · Mercer University Townsend School of Music

15 - 16 Mar, 2025

Darlington Meets Darlington · Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra

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