LENOX, MA. — The Cantilena Chamber Choir will present a performance of KING DAVID IN WORDS AND MUSIC Saturday, June 3rd at 7:30pm at Trinity Church, 88 Walker Street in Lenox. The concert will feature live readings by Pulitzer Prize winning author Geraldine Brooks. She will be reading from her latest international best-selling novel “The Secret Chord” about the life of King David as the choir sings music for chorus and full orchestra based on corresponding texts by and about King David.
On the program will be music from the Handel Oratorio Saul, the Coronation Anthem Zadok the Priest, music by Salamone Rossi, Leonard Bernstein, Arthur Honegger (from King David) and the choral masterpiece When David Heard by the immensely popular composer of contemporary choral music- Eric Whitacre. Featured counter tenor soloist Daniel Moody, a lover of early music has performed at the Boston, Indianapolis and Washington Early Music Festivals, with Maryland’s Mountainside Baroque, Boston’s Antico Moderno, Pennsylvania’s La Fiocco and most recently with renowned Apollo’s Fire in Cleveland.
Geraldine Brooks is the author of five novels, her latest, The Secret Chord, the Pulitzer Prize–winning March and the international bestsellers Caleb’s Crossing, People of the Book, and Year of Wonders. Caleb’s Crossing was the winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction and the Christianity Today Book Award, and was a finalist for the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction. People of the Book was named the Australian Book Industry Book of the Year in 2009. In 2010 she received the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Lifetime Achievement.
Concert tickets are $30 adults, $20 seniors and free for children 12 and under. To purchase tickets or request information visit www.cantilenachoir.org. Phone: 518-791-0185 or email .
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