Select, 50-voice choral ensemble, performing choral repertoire from all periods of Western art music.
His lush setting of Psalm 111 (1865) offered a solo cantorial line (sung by Eliot Vogel) in alternation with a choral response (performed by the Zamir Chorale and Friends) and rolled a slightly modal melody into a thoroughly European cloak.
Tonight's trump card was Laura Mvula, the classically-trained performer that once had a choral piece performed at Birmingham Town Hall.
Sat Oct 26th - Saratoga, CA - Montalvo Arts Center (not an Helado Negro performance, this is a commissioned Choral Piece performed by 20 singers).
(Allan Kozinn) BERKSHIRE CHORAL FESTIVAL (Tomorrow) For listeners who love choral music, this festival is an ideal refuge, combining the charms of the Berkshires and highlights of the choral repertory, performed by a choir of 275 enthusiastic singers, supported by the Springfield Symphony, and conducted by renowned choral directors.
180- to 200-voice choral ensemble, performing major choral masterworks with orchestra.
(Allan Kozinn) BERKSHIRE CHORAL FESTIVAL (Tomorrow) For listeners who love choral music, this festival is an ideal refuge, combining the charms of the Berkshires and some of the highlights of the choral repertory, performed by a large choir of enthusiastic singers, led by renowned choral conductors.
As it turned out, most of the music sounded dated, like World War II-era slang, with occasional patches of dreamy choral writing (performed by the Men of the Orpheon Chorale).
There were well-known hymns and choral works performed by the St . Georges Chapel choir and an orchestra, plus performances by the opera soprano Elin Manahan Thomas, trumpeter David Blackadder and rising star cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, 19, who is the first black winner of the prestigious BBC Young Musician of the Year award.
NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY "Holiday Choral Concert," performed by the University Chorale and the Chamber Singers.
