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UMass Choral Groups to Perform at Northfield Mount Hermon

November 22, 2004

NORTHFIELD, Mass—The University of Massachusetts Amherst Chamber Choir and Madrigal Singers will be performing a concert at the Northfield Mount Hermon School on Sunday, December 5.

In a nod to NMH’s “jazz” theme this year, the music will observe how jazz has influenced classical choral music. The Chamber Choir will perform Claude Debussy’s “Trois Chansons,” Carlos Guastavino’s “Indianas,” Edwin Fissinger’s “Lux aeterna,” Ricky Ian Gordon’s “Three by Langston,” and two arrangements by the internationally admired composer Alice Parker, of Hawley, MA: “Sometimes I Feel” and “Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye.” The Madrigal Singers will sing secular and sacred music by Renaissance composers des Prez, de Rore, Lassus, and Palestrina dealing with subjects such as fleas, light, and kissing.

As a special feature, the NMH Singers will join the university choir in singing selections from the Earth Mass/Missa Gaia by Paul Winter, Paul Halley, and Jim Scott. The choirs recently sang the entire work at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.

The concert will begin at 4 pm at the Memorial Chapel on the school’s Mount Hermon campus. For more information, please call 413-498-3281.
 

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