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Works by Bill Cunliffe, William L. Dawson, Nick Page, Alice Parker and others. Guest artist: Fiddler Owen Kennedy playing fiddle tunes from around the U.S.A. The concert will be aired at a later date on Down East Singers' YouTube Channel. Cosponsored by Camden Public Library. Some chairs will be provided. Or bring your own chair or a blanket! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e33586aa53278377b787a99/1612484947722-D4UAHUY4DT4X3D0KLOEK/rachmaninoff_header_800x490.jpg Concerts & Events - Memorial Day Virtual Concert Monday, May 31st, 5pm A virtual all-Rachmaninoff concert brought to you by Down East Singers and Bay Chamber Concerts, featuring members of Down East Singers, Bowdoin Chorus, and other choristers, a brass ensemble and Jennifer McIvor, keyboard. Choral repertoire will include an early part song, "Chorus of Spirits," and movements of Rachmaninoff’s 1910 Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (in Church Slavonic). Chamber music will feature cellist Matthew Smith and pianist Peipei Song performing Vocalise, and adding violinist Jesse MacDonald in a performance of the Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor. The video will be premiered free of charge at 5 PM on Monday, May 31, on Down East Singers' YouTube channel. Donations to Down East Singers will be gratefully accepted, please click below to make a contribution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e33586aa53278377b787a99/1612891832663-R2DNIO5PVCAVEQ6ZNN0K/DES+background_1.1.1.jpg Concerts & Events - December 2020 Virtual Concert Released on Sunday, Dec 13, 2pm - Available Now A virtual concert brought to you by Bay Chamber Concerts, featuring members of Down East Singers, Bowdoin Chorus, and other choristers, Halcyon String Quartet, members of the Midcoast Brass Quintet, and Jennifer McIvor, keyboard accompanist. Repertoire includes Schubert's German Mass (sung in English), Bortniansky's setting of the Lord's Prayer (in English), Johnson's immortal African American anthem "Lift Every Voice and Sing," and the spiritual "We Shall Overcome." The video, created in a hayfield in Cushing, was premiered free of charge at 2 PM on Sunday, December 13 on Bay Chamber Concerts' YouTube Channel. Donations to Down East Singers and Bay Chamber Concerts & Music School will be gratefully accepted. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e33586aa53278377b787a99/1614027041182-YGDFM873QW2E8WMUISC1/DES+12-19+Page+1.jpg Concerts & Events - Maine Winter Music December 2019 A collaboration with the Midcoast Brass Quintet. The repertoire included choral music by Maine composers Delmar Dustin Small and Sean Fleming. Other compositions by American composers Daniel Pinkham and Richard Dirksen were also accompanied by brass instruments. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e33586aa53278377b787a99/1614689771657-XYX5IQ5XIMMS3JIYMP9G/DES+5-19+Page+1.jpg Concerts & Events - Ernest Bloch’s Sacred Service / Avodath Hakodesh May 2019 A magnificent, full-length Jewish liturgy sung in Hebrew with Cantor Scott Sokol, baritone soloist, and the Mozart Mentors Orchestra accompanying. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e33586aa53278377b787a99/1614689826994-779YOE3X7PB6VKJZJ71S/DES+12-18+Page_1.jpg Concerts & Events - Hark! How the Bells! December 2018 With the Saint Petersburg, Russia Men's Ensemble. Ukrainian and Russian sacred and secular pieces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e33586aa53278377b787a99/1614689852287-YA3YR8GUQC8UV09A1I38/DES+5-18+Page_1.jpg Concerts & Events - From Many… One May 2018 With Mozart Mentors Orchestra and soprano soloist Emma Hallundbaek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e33586aa53278377b787a99/1614689871580-4ZHVLIOG59AAGAAVQUNZ/DES+12-17+Page_1.jpg Concerts & Events - A Celtic Christmas: Music of Ireland, Scotland, Wales & Cornwall. December 2017 With Castlebay Duo and David Myers, Jr., tenor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e33586aa53278377b787a99/1614689897475-4K6WCMX5PWDCZ0CNK44H/DES+5-17+Page+1.jpg Concerts & Events - Down East Singers presents The Creation, considered Haydn's greatest work. May 2017 With soloists Erin Chenard, soprano; David Myers, Jr., tenor; John David Adams, bass-baritone; and Rebecca Worthington, soprano. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e33586aa53278377b787a99/1614689919010-FB2Y7PB73DIE3K8BD00S/DES+12-16+page_1.jpg Concerts & Events - Heaven and Earth, Jenks and Jazz December 2016 Christmas music influenced by dance rhythms and jazzy harmonies from the Renaissance to the 21st Century, including a musical tribute to the late Glenn Jenks, featuring his "Heaven and Earth.” And works by Praetorius, Schütz, Joubert, Biebl, Joplin, Zimmermann, Gruber, Beal, Booth, and Rodgers & Hammerstein. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e33586aa53278377b787a99/1614690005127-JOMCBOE31ZINJ9E356UQ/DES+5-16+page+1.jpg Concerts & Events - Down East Singers, accompanied by Mozart Mentors Orchestra presents Mozart’s immortal Requiem. May 2016 With soloists Sarah Tuttle, soprano; Joëlle Morris, mezzo-soprano; David Myers, tenor; and John David Adams, bass-baritone. Also on the program are Mozart’s beloved motet, Ave verum corpus and a sing-along arrangement of America the Beautiful. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e33586aa53278377b787a99/1614690036708-TBJX5P0OSB60WT2GON12/DES+12-15+Page_1.jpg Concerts & Events - December 2015 Benjamin Britten: Ceremony of Carols Kirke Mechem: The Seven Joys of Christmas Henri Büsser: Le Sommeil de l’Enfant Jésus (Sleep of the Infant Jesus) Michael Larkin: Fantasy on "Creator of the Stars of Night” Frank Ferko: Festival of Carols With Virginia Flanagan, harp soloist A Festival of Carols, by American composer Frank Ferko, is based on five Christmas carol texts by 19th century American poets and hymn writers. Although it was the composer’s intention to use earlier American texts, he found that most Christmas carols sung in America prior to the 19th century were carols brought to this country by immigrants from their homelands in Europe. Thus, many of the early carols sung here did not originate in this country. The nineteenth century, however, did produce an abundance of new texts by American writers, and these were also set to music by American composers. Some of these carols have become quite well-known while others have remained relatively obscure. In A Festival of Carols all of the music is new whether or not the texts are familiar. Thus, the carols are not arrangements of previously existing tunes but entirely new melodies and harmonizations with the harp used both as an accompanying instrument and as an intrinsic thread within the larger musical fabric. A Festival of Carols was commissioned by the Dale Warland Singers. The music was composed in the summer and early fall of 2002 and first performed by the Dale Warland Singers at four performances in December 2002 of the annual Echoes of Christmas concerts. Harps of Gold also includes one composition for solo voice and harp—Le Sommeil de l’Enfant Jésus (Sleep of the Infant Jesus) by Henri Büsser, a French composer of German ancestry who was born in 1872 in Toulouse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e33586aa53278377b787a99/1614690055565-IRL6ANK933DK3IC8UG8W/DES+5-15+Page+1.jpg Concerts & Events - Symphony of Psalms - Music from our Old Testament Heritage May 2015 World premiere of a newly commissioned work by Elizabeth Brown for theremin, chorus and piano; Rachmaninoff's Vocalise performed on the theremin with piano accompaniment and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms for chorus and orchestra. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e33586aa53278377b787a99/1614690101477-QIHMDYUO9I11CI00KZ4Y/DES+12-14+page-1.jpg Concerts & Events - A Latin-American Christmas December 2014 Argentine composer Ariel Ramírez's Misa Criolla and Navidad Nuestra for chorus, two tenor soloists and instrumental combo of guitar, percussion, keyboard, flutes and string bass. David Myers and Anthony Antolini, tenor soloists, Shannon M. Chase, guest conductor. Also on the program were choral arrangements from Colombia and Puerto Rico for chorus and combo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e33586aa53278377b787a99/1614690123929-PA0KL34WP69L0V3X04DM/DES+5-14+page1.jpg Concerts & Events - As It Began to Dawn… May 2014 A full-length Oratorio about the awe and mystery of the Resurrection by Maine native Delmar Dustin Small. Performed May 26, 2014 at the Camden Opera House, with Mozart Mentors Orchestra, vocal soloists and chorus. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e33586aa53278377b787a99/1614690143584-V18JU4USAF056OX0IF57/DES+12-13+page+1.jpg Concerts & Events - Black Nativity in Concert December 2013 On Dec. 11, 1961, at the 41st Street Theater in New York City, six gospel singers made history. Backed up by only a piano and a B-3 Hammond organ, they performed Black Nativity by African-American poet and playwright, Langston Hughes. He entitled it "A Gospel Song-play." Maine music historian Aaron Robinson has recreated the score of Black Nativity from the original recording as Black Nativity—In concert: A Gospel Celebration. Down East Singers performed it and other gospel music with pianist Jennifer McIvor and Hammond organist Sean Fleming on December 12 and December 22, 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e33586aa53278377b787a99/1614690162310-8A9SY31MZVOJ61DV1RDK/DES+5-13+page+1.jpg Concerts & Events - Memorial Day Blessings May 2013 Karl Jenkins’ Requiem, for chorus, orchestra and shakuhachi (Japanese flute) and shorter works, including spirituals by William Dawson and Stravinsky's arrangement of The Star-Spangled Banner. With Mozart Mentors Orchestra and Elizabeth Brown, shakuhachi master Monday, May 27, 2013, 5 PM Camden Opera House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e33586aa53278377b787a99/1614690188745-YYNKB8HAGPEPD8NNKIJH/DES+12-12+page+1.jpg Concerts & Events - A Russian Christmas December 2012 "A Russian Christmas,” with the St. Petersburg Men’s Ensemble, was presented on Thursday, December 6 at 7:30 PM at St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Church, Newcastle and Sunday, December 9 at 2:30 pm at Camden Opera House. The repertoire included sacred works by Bortniansky, Ippolitov-Ivanov, Stravinsky, Chesnokov, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky and seasonal folk songs arranged by Kalistratov, Leontovich and Prokhorov. The first half of the concert featured the St. Petersburg Men’s Ensemble performing both sacred and secular works for men’s voices. 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