Sunday December 2, 2007
UNCW CHAMBER SINGERS AND CONCERT CHOIR
7:30 pm / Cultural Arts Building recital hall
Free and open to the public.
For more information call 910-962-7416.
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
The evening will feature sacred and secular music for the season. Rob Nathanson, guitarist, and Elisabeth Loparits, pianist will perform with the choirs.
Another piece on the program, "Brother Heinrich's Christmas," is written for narrator, bassoon, oboe, and piano, and choir, and tells a fictional story of the composition of the carol "In dulci jubilo." The story takes place in a monastery where the choir director Brother Heinrich (represented by the oboe melody) and his companion Sigismund, the donkey (represented by the two-note melody played by the bassoon), who are turning the wine-press to make wine. They are visited by a chorus of angels who sing them the carol "In dulci jubilo." As Brother Heinrich is trying to write it down so they can learn it for the Christmas service, he forgets the ending. After many tries, Sigismund chimes in with his two-note theme, and those two notes bring back the ending and save the day.
ABOUT THE UNCW CHOIRS
The Concert Choir and Chamber Singers exist as independent groups, although the groups sometimes appear together and sometimes join forces for performance of large choral works. Some members of the Concert Choir come from the Department of Music, but others from virtually every part of the university community and community at large.
The Chamber Singers is a select group, chosen by audition, and typically performing works appropriate for a smaller chorus. The Chamber Choir does extensive touring, including a biennial European tour as well as annual participation in a festival choir at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York for St. Francis Day.
ABOUT DR. JOE HICKMAN, UNCW ENSEMBLES DIRECTOR
Dr. Joe Hickman is director of the University Concert Choir and Chamber Singers groups. The University choirs have toured extensively both in the United States and in Western Europe. Dr. Hickman also writes choral reviews and articles for the Choral Journal and he has a number of scholarly performing editions published with Masterworks Press of Olympia, Washington. Most recently, his collections of 4-part motets of Palestrina and 4-part consort songs by John Dowland were published in Masterworks Press' choral sight reading series. Dr. Hickman has also edited Missa Gaia by Paul Winter et al for Hal Leonard Music.
For more information, call the Department of Music Events Hotline 910/962-7416 or 910/962-3415.
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