News

Jeffrey de Caen Named Director of The Prior

“Jesuit-educated, de Caen joins Holy Cross after more than 20 years at the University of Southern California…“

Holy Cross Magazine

Mar 27, 2025

Review: Sphinx Virtuosi

“The Sphinx Virtuosi is terrific: the group’s unified tone and articulations, impeccable responsiveness and technique, and command of stylistic nuance are all of the first rank…”

Jonathan Blumhofer, The Arts Fuse

Apr 2, 2025

Student Composers Get Immersive Opportunity With Grammy Artists

“Osvaldo Golijov, Jeremy Flower work alongside students to offer hands-on intensive on composing for film…“

Billy McEntee, Holy Cross Magazine

Mar 24, 2025

Worcester artist residency program expands, looking for applicants

“The Worcester Cultural Coalition announced Monday it will be continuing and expanding a partnership with the city and a local college to offer a summer residency program for local artists…“

Adam Bass, MassLive

Feb 11, 2025

Fenwick Scholar Aims to Amplify the Voices of Women in Jazz

“Two years earlier, some of the aspects of this work wouldn’t be possible, but we now have the state-of-the-art Prior Performing Arts Center on campus,” Hurst said. “It is in The Prior that I will be actualizing my research through rehearsals and recording.“

Billy McEntee, Holy Cross Magazine

Oct 24, 2024

Mfoniso Udofia's nine-play 'Ufot Family Cycle' begins performances

“It’s a story of family, spanning generations, cultures and continents, and a production bringing together many partners, including greater Boston theater companies and The Prior Performance Arts Center at the College of the Holy Cross.…“

Richard Duckett, Worcester Magazine

Nov 7, 2024

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Click below to access articles by academic year.

2024–25

Apr 2, 2025	Review: Sphinx Virtuosi play Joplin, Coleridge-Taylor, Skye, Stewart, Becenti, Carreño, and Taylor	The Arts Fuse
Mar 27, 2025	Jeffrey de Caen Named Director of the Prior Performing Arts Center	Holy Cross Magazine
Mar 24, 2025	Student Composers Get Immersive Opportunity With Grammy Artists	Holy Cross Magazine
Mar 4, 2025	‘A sense of community’: Anxious constituents bond at Jim McGovern town hall event	Worcester Magazine
Feb 11, 2025	Worcester artist residency program expands, looking for applicants	MassLive
Nov 7, 2024	Mfoniso Udofia’s nine-play ‘Ufot Family Cycle’ begins Boston-performances	Worcester Magazine
Oct 24, 2024	Fenwick Scholar Aims to Amplify the Voices of Women in Jazz	Holy Cross Magazine

2023–24

May 23, 2024	Composer Osvaldo Golijov’s new concerto, ‘The Given Note,’ inspired by Irish Poet Seamus Heaney	WBUR
May 8, 2024	Grammy-Winning Composer Osvaldo Golijov Premieres New Concerto	Holy Cross Magazine
May 3, 2024	Enhancing the Arts through Philanthropy	Holy Cross Magazine
Apr 4, 2024	Worcester Cultural Coalition, Holy Cross set for creative residencies at The Prior	Telegram & Gazette
Jan 9, 2024	Inside the Uncommon Commons: The Prior Performing Arts Center	Holy Cross Magazine
Aug 8, 2023	Prior Performing Arts Center at Holy Cross to present varied season of acclaimed artists	Telegram & Gazette

2022–23

Apr 21, 2023	View from Prior Performing Arts Center at Holy Cross looking good for arts and inclusion	Telegram & Gazette
Mar 9, 2023	These projects are helping remake Mass. college campuses	Boston Business Journal
Jan 30, 2023	Cantor Art Gallery to Showcase the Famed Chertsey Tiles and the Visual Culture of Medieval Europe in ‘Bringing the Holy Land Home’ Exhibition	Holy Cross Magazine
Jan 2, 2023	Inside the “Uncommon Commons:” The Prior Performing Arts Center	Holy Cross Magazine
Nov 24, 2022	Diller Scofidio + Renfro creates performing arts centre on Massachusetts campus	Dezeen
Nov 9, 2022	Diller Scofidio + Renfro’s Prior Performing Arts Center at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester puts the arts on top	The Architect’s Newspaper
Oct 19, 2022	DS+R designs an “uncommon commons” with Prior Performing Arts Center	STIR
Oct 13, 2022	DS+R Prior Performing Arts Center is designed as a public commons	Wallpaper*
Oct 5, 2022	Holy Cross’s New Prior Performing Arts Center Overflows with Cultural Energy	Metropolis Magazine
Oct 3, 2022	The College of the Holy Cross completes a $110 million performing arts center	Building Design + Construction
Oct 2, 2022	College of the Holy Cross Prior Performing Arts Center / Diller Scofidio + Renfro	ArchDaily
Sep 26, 2022	Photo Gallery: Visitors Experience Prior Performing Arts Center at Community Day	Holy Cross Magazine
Sep 20, 2022	Inside the new Prior Performing Arts Center at Holy Cross	Spectrum News 1
Sep 12, 2022	Prior Performing Arts Center at the College of the Holy Cross—a New Facility Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro—Welcomes the Campus Community This Fall	Holy Cross Magazine
Sep 1, 2022	A Panorama of Design: A New Massachusetts Theater Offers a Peek Behind the Curtain	The New York Times
Sep 1, 2022	Holy Cross’ $110M Prior Performing Arts Center opens for fall 2022 semester	Worcester Business Journal
Sep 1, 2022	Prior Performing Arts Center to Welcome the Campus and Local Communities During Community Day	Holy Cross Magazine

a performance from the worcester public schools orchestra at the prior

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