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New Boston resident to perform in college recital
Riley Klauza of New Boston is among the students participating in the University of Findlay Concert-Chorale and University Singers annual spring concert, Jazzy Spring.
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of The Press: The chorus of the well-known Christmas Carol, God rest you Merry Gentlemen, promises tidings of comfort and joy. I think we all know what the word joy means. Even though it’s been sadly lacking this year! Most of us will have had significant birthdays, weddings, or the birth of a new family member and not been able to celebrate in the ways we would wish. This has been hard. At least at Christmas we may be able to get together with some of our family members in person or online, and hopefully these will be joyful occasions. But we still need to be careful. The vaccine is being rolled out. But Covid-19 has not yet gone away.
Christmas Oratorio. Ensemble Resonanz presents Bach s
Christmas Oratorio as Hausmusik among friends. With a small cast and no large choir, the ensemble has arranged 30 arias, recitatives, choruses, and chorales from Bach s masterpiece in its own version. The score remains untouched, but electric guitar and Hammond organ sound in the continuo, there’s only one trumpet, and the whole ensemble joins in the chorales. View here.
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Sylvia. Conductor: Kevin Rhodes, choreography: Manuel Legris after Louis Mérante. With Kiyoka Hashimoto, Masayu Kimoto, and Davide Dato. Production from November 2018. Register for free and view here.
2 pm ET: VOCES8 Live from London presents
By Charles Hutchinson
Going virtual: Chapter House Choir members assembled from home recordings for the 2020 Carols By Candlelight online concert. Picture: Kat Young THE Chapter House Choir will be releasing an online version of its ever-popular Carols By Candlelight concert this evening as part of York Minster’s Christmas programme. After the Coronavirus pandemic snuffed out the usual Carols By Candlelight format, the chamber choir’s 30-minute video performance will be go live today at 7.30pm, free to view via yorkminster.org./whats-on and on the choir’s social-media channels. Created by choir members performing individually from home, the virtual recordings will be set against footage of York Minster’s 13th-century Chapter House in candlelight. Christmas carols both old and new will be complemented by festive music performed by the Handbell Ringers of the Chapter House Choir.
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