Voices Chorale 2009-2010 Concert Season

October 06, 2009

PRESS RELEASE:            October 6, 2009

To:                                    Arts & Entertainment Editors / Calendar Listings Editors

From:                                    Shirley Piercy (215) 598-0783 & Elisabeth Bonasera (609) 737-2976

For:                                    Dr. Lyn Ransom, Music Director & Conductor

 

 

 

 

 

2009-2010

A Season of National Styles!

 

 

An American Holiday

Conrad Susa’s Carols and Lullabies: Christmas in the Southwest for Chorus, Harp, Guitar and Marimba; carols by American composers from Colonial times to our time,  Magnificat  by Theodore Pachelbel of Colonial New England,  “It’s Happy Holiday Time;” by Ken Guilmartin, and Christmas music from classic American films. Rochelle Ellis, soprano soloist.

 

Friday, December 18, 2009, at 8 pm 

Pennington Presbyterian Church, 13 S. Main St., Pennington, NJ

Saturday, December 19, 2009, at 8 pm

St. Paul R.C. Church, 214 Nassau St., Princeton, NJ

 

 

“When Irish Eyes Are Smiling”

A salute to the Irish spirit, with harp and fiddle, including well-known lullabies, ballads, jigs and laments including “Danny Boy,” “Bonny Wood Green,” “Old Irish Blessing,” “Toora Loora Looral,” and “When Irish Eyes Are Smiling.”

 

Friday, March 5, 2010, at 8 pm

Pennington Presbyterian Church, 13 S. Main St., Pennington, NJ

 Sunday, March 7, 2010, at 3 pm

Anchor Presbyterian Church, 980 Durham Rd. (Rt. 413), Wrightstown, PA

 

 

Young Composers Concert

Celebrate the musical creativity of song-writers ages 5 to 12 who participate in the VOICES Children’s Music Composition Workshops & Contest. We invite parents and music teachers to encourage children to write songs for birthdays, holidays, bedtimes, and family events. The deadline for this annual contest is March 1, 2010. To enter the contest, mail entries by February 22 to VOICES, P.O.  Box 404, Pennington, NJ 08534!  For more information: Debbie Gwynne, Program Chair, at 609-397-0756 / dgmusica@comcast.net.

 

Monday, April 12, 2010, at 7 pm

Music Together, 225 Hopewell-Pennington Rd., Hopewell, NJ

 

 

 

From St. Petersburg to Paris

A musical migration from Russia to France in the early 20^th century. Excerpts from Rachmaninoff’s Vespers and Stravinsky’s Les Noces (The Wedding), Russian folk songs, and the Faure Requiem.

 

Friday, May 21, 2010, at 8 pm

Pennington Presbyterian Church, 13 S. Main St., Pennington, NJ

Sunday, May 23, 2010, at 3 pm

Anchor Presbyterian Church, 980 Durham Rd. (Rt. 413), Wrightstown, PA

 

VOICES 2009-2010 Season, Box 404, Pennington, NJ 08534

www.VOICESchorale.org

                                                                                     www.enewsarchive.com/VOICES

 

 

 

 

VOICES Chorale is supported in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and by funds from the Mercer County Executive and the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders; and by the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts program of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency.

 

 

 

 

 

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