Hi, everyone! I’m a member of the Aurora Chamber Singers and our spring concert is coming up on May 11!
If you live within two days’ drive of Burlington, Vermont I hope you’ll mark your calendar and plan to attend.
This will probably be the single greatest, most exciting concert any of us will ever take part in, either as performer or as audience member.
Remember all those people who say they were at Woodstock, even though actual attendance was only 400,000 or so? If everyone who says they were there had actually been there… well, let’s just say there’d be a lot more 49-year-olds named “Flower” or “Sunshine” roaming around today.
The same is going to be true of this concert (we cannot guarantee an actual open-air “love-in”, but we can’t guarantee that this won’t happen, either) … and you want to be one of the people who can truthfully say “I WAS THERE!”, don’t you?
Of course you do. So please make plans to attend.
What’s on the program, you ask?
Crossing Borders
| R. Nathaniel Dett | Chariot Jubilee |
| Listen to the Lambs | |
| America the Beautiful (Katherine Lee Bates) | |
| Howard Hanson | Song of Democracy (Walt Whitman) |
| David Conte | Three Mexican Folk Songs |
| Frederick Piket | Sea Charm (Langston Hughes) |
The concert celebrates music with ties to Canada, the United States, and Mexico. The two 20th century cantatas by African-Canadian composer R. Nathaniel Dett represent our neighbor to the north. U.S. composer Howard Hanson’s Song of Democracy sets words by Walt Whitman, and Frederick Piket’s song cycle Sea Charm sets the deeply moving words of Harlem Renaissance poet, Langston Hughes. David Conte’s arrangement of Three Mexican Folk Songs completes the border crossings.
We’re talking “total consciousness expansion” here, people.
I don’t want to see any of you sitting around on Sunday the 12th weeping openly because you missed this once in a lifetime experience. Mark your calendars now!
Once again, that’s:
Saturday May 11th, 2019 7:30 PM
College Street Congregational Church, Burlington
Tickets available via flynntix.com or at the door.
Be there, or be square.