Marywood University Chamber Singers tour to PA, VA, DE: Shakespearean choral settings

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Marywood University Chamber Singers tour to PA, VA, DE: Shakespearean choral settings

Date: May 1, 2011

by Rick Hoffenberg

Views: 1982

Location: Pennsylvania, USA

Choir type: College and University Choirs

Voicing: Mixed

The 18-voice Marywood University Chamber Singers are featured on an annual PBS broadcast in Northeast Pennsylvania and have performed on music series throughout the northeastern United States. The group's repertoire encompasses accompanied and a cappella repertoire ranging from masterworks of the Renaissance through world premieres by living composers. Recent concert venues have included St. Michael's Episcopal Church in New York City, St. Francis of Assisi Cathedral in New Jersey, First Church in Boston, Yale University's Marquand Chapel, and several locales in California and Germany.

Our 2011 tour program is as follows:

Richard Edwards, Where griping grief

Thomas Morley, It was a lover and his lass

Lane Johnson, Sweet love remember’d

Sven-Eric Johanson, Fancies [excerpts]

Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, Four Shakespeare Songs

Franz Schubert, Horch, Horch, die Lerch

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Unter des Laubdachs Hut

Ralph Vaughan Williams, Three Shakespeare Songs

Craig Kingsbury, A Song for Midsummer’s Eve

Craig Kingsbury, It was a lover and his lass

Nils Lindberg, Shall I compare…

John Rutter, It was a lover and his lass

Monday, May 9:
     7:30 PM CONCERT
     St. David's Episcopal Church
     763 South Valley Forge Road
   Wayne, PA 19087
     Phone: 610-688-7947

Wednesday, May 11:
   7:30 PM CONCERT

   Battery Park Christian Church
     4201 Brook Road
     Richmond, VA 23227
     Phone: 804-266-3973

Thursday, May 12:

7:30 PM CONCERT

     St. Jude Catholic Church
     1740 Tyler Road
     Christiansburg, VA 24073
     Phone: 540-639-5341

Saturday, May 14:
     7:30 PM CONCERT
     St. Luke's Episcopal Church
     8009 Fort Hunt Road
     Alexandria, VA 22308
     Phone: 703-765–4342

Monday, May 16:
     7:30 PM CONCERT
     St. Peter's Episcopal Church
     2nd & Market Street
     Lewes, DE 19958
     Phone: 302-645-8479

Admission to all concerts is free of charge. Please feel free to contact Rick Hoffenberg at rick.hoffenberg@gmail.com with questions. Thank you.

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