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Encore! Manchester’s choir returns
to Carnegie Hall in spring 2007 –
directed by Dr. Debra Lynn
Manchester College’s A Cappella Choir and alumni will return to Carnegie
Hall in spring 2007, with the College’s music director, Dr. Debra J.
Lynn, wielding the baton! And, the program again will feature an
original composition by Dr. Debora E. DeWitt, associate professor of
music.
Carnegie Hall is one of the world’s premier concert venues. The
80-member Manchester choir will join other choirs for the 200-singer
performance on May 26, 2007, all directed by Lynn, associate professor
of music. The curtain will rise at 8 p.m. on a Saturday night – prime
time for New York City.
Lynn has selected DeWitt’s Prayer for Peace, which the A Cappella
Choir sang during its 2004 Peace Tour of the magnificent cathedrals of
Italy and the Vatican. Also on the program is an extended work, The
Peaceable Kingdom, by Randall Thompson. The Manhattan Chamber
Orchestra will accompany.
“Having Prayer for Peace performed
alongside The Peaceable Kingdom is a great honor and very
exciting,’ said DeWitt. “I am looking forward to hearing the choral
clusters in Prayer sung by a 200-member ensemble with a
professional string orchestra. I imagine the sound will be crisp and
full – I can’t wait to hear it.”
Manchester College last took the Carnegie Hall stage in 2001, singing
DeWitt’s Parting in a prelude concert and then joining other
choirs for the main event, directed by John Rutter.
“Carnegie is so special because it’s a large
hall, but it’s fairly shallow, so you really feel the presence of the
audience,” said Lynn. “And the acoustics are so amazing – you hear
yourself just as the audience hears you. That’s why performers all over
the world love to play and sing at Carnegie Hall.”
Students and alumni will pay a fee to participate in the five-day,
four-night New York City residency. The College will charter a bus, and
conduct fund-raisers, Dr. Lynn said. Learn more about music at
Manchester College at
www.manchester.edu |
