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Choir from Princeton to Carnegie Hall via Kansas

Force of nature that I am, my reportage is now churning up Tornado Alley. My story on Alicia Brozovich and Westminster Community Chorus, written for the November 20 edition of the Princeton weekly U.S. 1 Newspaper – PrincetonInfo, has been picked up by Times-Sentinel Newspapers in Kansas.

https://princetoninfo.com/reaching-beyond-the-community/

Brozovich, who hails from Conway Springs, Kansas, about 30 miles south of Wichita, is a graduate of Westminster Choir College and now on the faculty of Westminster Conservatory. Her debut as principal conductor of the Westminster Community Chorus may have come and gone, but the concert, in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, is now archived on YouTube and the ensemble’s Facebook page, complete with associated projections and NASA media.

The choir will head to Carnegie Hall in May, to sing for choral music legend John Rutter.

You can still read the original story here.

https://princetoninfo.com/community-chorus-takes-vocal-journey-through-space/

Thanks to Times-Sentinel Newspapers, I can now afford to take my editor out to breakfast.

November 30, 2019
Samantha Josephson Tribute Premieres NJ Concert

Poignantly, the University of South Carolina awarded a posthumous degree to the parents of Samantha Josephson on Saturday. Josephson, who was a resident of Robbinsville, NJ, was found murdered in March after climbing into a vehicle she mistook for an Uber.

The tragedy has been widely reported in the media. Now Josephson’s cousin, composer Louis A. Josephson has a written a moving tribute to her memory.

The work, “Remember Her Name,” will be given its world premiere by the Westminster Community Chorus at the Princeton Meadow Event Center on Friday at 8 p.m. Also on the program will be choral works by Brahms, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Franck, Brant Adams, and Ēriks Ešenvalds, and orchestral music by Copland, Ravel, Dvořák, and Sibelius, performed by the Westminster Community Orchestra.

Louis A. Josephson and Ruth Ochs, music director of the WCO, will drop by The Classical Network this afternoon at 5:00 EDT to tell us more about the concert, the new work, and What’s My Name, an organization set up by Samantha Josephson’s parents to promote awareness of the importance ride share safety (additional information at whatsmyname.org).

I’ve also programmed music by Sir Arthur Sullivan, Joseph Achron, and Ottokar Nováček, to be offered on the anniversary of their births, and Jane Glover will conduct Haydn, among the featured selections, between 4 and 7 p.m. EDT, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.

May 13, 2019
Princeton Choral Concerts This Weekend

Three concerts by local choral groups will make this coming weekend something to sing about.

Tonight at 7:30, the Westminster Community Chorus will present “Joy Around the World” at Westminster Choir College’s Bristol Chapel. The program will include Franz Josef Haydn’s “Missa Sancti Nicolai” (“Saint Nicholas Mass”), alongside arrangements of Spanish, Latin and Hebrew songs.

Also contributing to the atmosphere of diversity will be the New Jersey Gay Men’s Chorus – NJGMC, now celebrating a quarter century of existence. The group will present its 25th anniversary concert tomorrow at 8 p.m. at Princeton United Methodist Church. The special event will include guest appearances by former artistic directors. In addition, Carolyn Montgomery-Forant and Jeff Cubeta will present their original choral piece, “Rise,” as part of “The Rise Tour,” one of 24 stops on a national circuit to raise money for the Matthew Shepard Foundation.

Rounding out the weekend, Princeton Pro Musica will introduce a piece inspired by Native American poetry as part of its season finale, “American Voices,” on Sunday at 4 p.m., at Princeton University’s Richardson Auditorium. The concert will include a Princeton Pro Musica co-commission through Chorus America from composer René Clausen, “Now Talking God,” on a Navajo text, alongside works by Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, John Corigliano and Alice Parker. The choral works will be counterbalanced by an orchestral performance of “Appalachian Spring.”

Spring into choral music with my article in today’s Trenton Times:

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/05/classical_music_westminster_co.html

PHOTO: “Night Chant Gods with Four Yei and Talking God” by Harrison Begay, also known as Haskay Yahne Yah (1914-2012)

More about the artist here:

http://www.adobegallery.com/artist/Harrison_Begay1637300

May 20, 2016

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