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UPCOMING CONCERT: CHRISTMAS AT HARVARD
The Cantilena Chamber Choir will present a Christmas program in the tradition
of Harvard's Memorial Church . The program is dedicated in memory of John
Ferris, Harvard's organist and choirmaster for over three decades who passed
away this summer at age 82. The program will include works sung by the Harvard
University Choir that appeared in the past Christmas services of Lessons
and Carols at the church during Ferris' tenure. They include works by Bruckner,
Handel, Ives and Sweelinck, and traditional carols in new arrangements.
There will also be secular readings (both poignant and humorous) on the
Christmas season as read by Stephen Booth, rector of the Trinity Parish
in Lenox. The first program will be held on Sunday, DEC. 7th, at 3:00 pm
at Trinity Church , 88 Walker Street , and the second concert (with readers
John Wightman and Trudy Weaver) will be held on Sunday, DEC. 14th at 3:00pm
at the Old Parish Church on Main Street in Sheffield . Featured on the December
program is Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols, a work for Women's Choir
and harp written in 1942 on the transatlantic voyage that brought Britten
back to wartime England . The featured harpist is Susan Knapp Thomas. Arrangements
of familiar carols and songs will also be performed, including The Coventry
Carol, Personant Hodie, and music by Billings and Ives. Tickets are available
at the door at $15 for adults and students are admitted free with a paying
adult. Reservations (recommended) can be made by phone at 518-791-0185 or
by email at satbchoir@yahoo.com.
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Now in its fifth season, the 24-voice Cantilena
Chamber Choir is the Berkshire region's premiere a cappella
choir. It is comprised of singers from the Berkshires and Eastern
New York area who possess good vocal training,
sight-reading skills, and considerable choral experience who seek
more challenging music in the choral repertoire. Past seasons
have included performances with the Empire Brass, Aston Magna
(Purcell's Dido
and Aeneus) and the new
England Baroque Soloists, a concert of works by Berkshire Composers,
a special benefit for the Lenox Library with Shakespeare and Company's
Annette Miller, and a a collaboration with Boston University's Tanglewood
Two symposium
at Williams College. This season it has collaborated with the New
England Baroque Soloists for two concerts, October and May, and
presented a special performance of Ron Perera's The Golden Door as
a benefit for the Berkshire
Immigrant Center.
Andrea Goodman is the founder
and director of the Cantilena Chamber Choir. Last fall she was
a visiting professor of conducting at the New England Conservatory
of Music where she also directs the women's choir. During the summer
she serves as the Director of the annual summer Saratoga Choral
Festival. She has prepared choirs for the Philadelphia Orchestra
under Charles Dutoit, and has previously served as Director of
the Concord Chorus (MA), Director of Choirs at Skidmore College
and New York University. Her guest appearances have included the
Aspen (Colo.) Music Festival, the Festival de Musique Sacree in
Fribourg, Switzerland, and the Festival of White Nights in St.
Petersburg, Russia. Dr. Goodman holds a Doctor of Musical Arts
in Conducting and teaches music sight-reading for adults on Tuesday
evenings in Lenox.
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