Monteverdi

New Concert

Monteverdi "Lagrime d'amante" this Saturday - Newton, NJ

Date: June 4, 2013

by Cherwyn Ambuter

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Location: New Jersey, USA

Choir type: Chamber Choirs and Vocal Ensembles

Voicing: Mixed

ZEPHYR VOCAL ENSEMBLE presents concert entitled Love's Agonies and Ecstasies. A concert exploring many kinds of love in many of their various facets and faces - romantic love, familial love, love of God, love of country, etc.

This Saturday, June 8th @ 7pm, Newton United Methodist Church, 111 Ryerson Ave., Newton, NJ

On the program:

* Billings: I Am the Rose of Sharon

* Monteverdi: Lagrime d'amante al' sepolcro dell'amate (The Grief of a Lover At the Tomb of the Beloved - a beautiful, poignant 6-movement work)

* P.D.Q. Bach: My Bonnie Lass, She Smelleth

* Debussy: Dieu, qu'il la fait bon regarder

* trad. Irish/arr. Trinkley: I'd Wed If I Were Not Too Young

* Gjeilo: Ubi caritas

* Sousa/arr. Gingrich: Stars and Stripes Forever

* Sherwin/Maschwitz: A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square

* Bernie, Casey, Pinkard/arr. Waesche: Sweet Georgia Brown (barbershop)

* Hamlisch/arr. Shaw: Through the Eyes of Love

* Brown & Freed/arr. Greene: Temptation (an a cappella jazz duet)

* trad. Irish/arr. Lawson: Danny Boy

* Mercury/arr. Sharon: Crazy Little Thing Called Love

* Adele & Wilson/arr. Hodge: Someone Like You

* Holland, Dozier, & Holladn/arr. Hayes: How Sweet It Is To Be Loved By You

* Schoenberg/arr. Lawson: On My Own, from Les Misérables

* Daglisch/arr. Barnett: My Little Potato

* Gershwin/arr. Meader: Love Is Here to Stay

Pre-concert lecture included with ticket, 6:15pm.

(973) 400-ZEPH (9374) for more information

Tickets:

$20 reg./$10 seniors (65+) & teens/$5 children/FREE to unemployed AND THEIR IMMEDIATE FAMILY at the door

$15 reg./$9 seniors & teens/FREE to children and unemployed (AND the immediate family of the unemployed) when purchased online (online ticket sales close at 9pm Friday evening, June 7th

http://www.zephyrve.org/calendar to purchase online in advance

Also, André's Restaurant and Wine Boutique is again offering a wonderful joint-promotion with us for the evening. For $39, you can receive an award-winning 3-course dinner before the show. André's, at 188 Spring St. in Newton, will offer its award-winning prix fixe dinner, 3 courses for $39 at 5pm. Dinner reservations must be made in advance at (973) 300-4192, Zephyr tickets must be purchased in advance, and the resulting emailed confirmation response from Zephyr (or ticket) be brought into the restaurant. Zephyr is excited to collaborate with André's Restaurant to bring you a complete evening of multisensory delights! Andre's is rated by Zagat as a Best New Jersey Best Buy specifically for its prix fixe dinner: http://www.zagat.com/lists/best-best-buys-prix-fixe-dinner-new-jersey-restaurants and was an OpenTable.com Diners' Choice Winner 2012.

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