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Choral workshop

Hart to Heart: Variations on Psalm 42
Dr. Andrew Megill
Westminster Choir College, NJ, and the Carmel Bach Festival

March 21, 2010 (Sunday) from 1:00 to 4:00 pm

Dr. Megill will be presenting four works on the Psalm 42 text “Like as the hart”. We will have the opportunity to examine how composers from different centuries and different musical styles compose music around a similar text.  In the process Dr. Megill will help participants explore the changes in singing style that each new century brings. Scores will be provided at the workshop.

Palestrina (1525-1594):  Sicut cervus
Handel (~1720): Chandos Anthem
Mendelssohn (1837): Wie der Hirsch schreit
Howells (1941): Like as the hart

Admission:

$15 if signed up before March 19:    Register online ($1.25 surcharge)    or call 644-8012. $25 at door (with no prior sign-up).  21 years and under free. Participants may attend as singers or observers.

Where: Monterey Peninsula College Choral Room
      MPC campus map
The Music (MU) Building is left of center on the map, and the Choral Room is at the south end of the building. Park in Parking Lot B. Walk around the Music Building to the Choral Room entrance on the far side.

Presenter: Andrew Megill is recognized as one of the leading choral conductors of his generation, known for his passionate artistry and unusually wide-ranging repertoire, extending from early music to newly-composed works.  As Associate Professor at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, Dr. Megill conducts the Westminster Kantorei, a chamber choir specializing in music of the Renaissance and Baroque periods.  He serves as Artistic Director of Fuma Sacra, Ensemble-in-residence at Westminster Choir College, recognized as one of America’s leading professional ensembles whose performances are said to leave audiences gasping in amazement.  He is Music Director of the Masterwork Chorus, one of metropolitan New York’s finest volunteer choirs.  Dr. Megill has prepared choruses for many of the world’s leading orchestras and conductors and serves as chorusmaster for the operas of the Spoleto Festival USA where critics have praised him for producing the finest opera chorus in the world.  Since 2007 he has been Associate Conductor with the Carmel Bach Festival.

I Cantori di Carmel choral workshops are supported in part by a grant from the Monterey Peninsula Foundation Youth Fund.

2010 Spring Concert

April 30 and May 2

(note: Friday and Sunday)
8:00 pm

April 30: First United Methodist (Butterfly) Church, PG
(website)
May 2: Carmel Mission Basilica
(website and map)

Dr. Sal Ferrantelli, director
Pauline Troia, pianist
members of Ensemble Monterey

Music by Brahms, Handel, Haydn, and others

Tickets may be purchased by calling 644-8012,
or on-line here when they become available

2009 Winter Concert

Follow A Star

December 5 and 6, 2009

Music by Mozart, Vivaldi, Rutter, Schütz, Mendelssohn, Chatman,
Pinkham, Ferrantelli and traditional Christmas pieces

Here is a review of the concert

Messiah Sing-along

Our Messiah Sing-along was November 22, 2009
at the Carmel Mission Basilica, directed by Dr. Sal Ferrantelli.
Please plan to join us again in 2010.

Donations were shared by the Carmel Mission Restoration Fund and I Cantori.