Music by a couple of Americans with romantic predilections bind two pairs of concerts by Lenape Chamber Ensemble and the Grammy Award-nominated Westminster Williamson Voices next week.

Brett Deubner and Marcantonio Barone will present George Rochberg’s Viola Sonata in Upper Black Eddy, on April 10, and in Doylestown, on April 12. The program will also include Mozart’s String Quintet in C Major, K. 515, and Max Bruch’s Piano Quintet in G Minor.

Westminster Williamson Voices will be joined by special guests, the University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir, under the direction of Paul Mealor, for a 50th anniversary performance of Leonard Bernstein’s “Chichester Psalms,” on April 11, at Westminster’s Bristol Chapel in Princeton, and on April 12 at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City. Also on the program will be the world premiere of Westminster alumnus Thomas LaVoy’s “Songs of the Questioner” and the U.S. premiere of Mealor’s “The Shadow of the Cross.”

Mealor has been described by the New York Times as “the most important composer to have emerged in Welsh choral music since William Mathias.”

You can read more about it in my article in today’s Trenton Times.

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2015/03/classical_music_concerts_in_pr.html

PHOTOS: American idols, George Rochberg and Leonard Bernstein