Camerata Emanon
UPCOMING PROGRAMS
INSPIRE!
January 21,2012 7:30 p.m.
THE UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH
4848 Turner Street
Rockford, IL 61107
$10/adults $5/students
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A program of choral music to inspire the soul!
Featured will be the J.S. Bach Motet "Singet" for double choir and continuo conducted by Wayne Hatwich.
Other compositions include Sweelinck's "Gaudete Omnes" , Randall Thompson's "Alleluia" and "Ye Shall Have a Song", Morten Lauridsen's "O Magnum Mysterium" and "Sure on This Shining Night" and the "Lux Aurumque" by Eric Whitacre.
Two lighter pieces will also be on the program: "What a Wonderful World" and "Shall We Gather at the River". All of compositions with the exception of "Sure on This Shining Night" will be sung a cappella.
The Road Home
January 22, 2011
The Unitarian Universalist Church
4848 Turner Street
Rockford, IL 61107
adults $10 students $5
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The program will include two works by Robert Schumann to commemorate his 200th birthday (born in 1810)and the "Reincarnations" by Samuel Barber in remembrance of his 100th birthday (born 1910).
Other music to be performed include James Mulholland's setting of three poems by Emily Dickinson for treble voices, "Go, Lovely Rose" by Eric Whitacre, the Award winning "At the Round Earth's Imagined Corners" by Williametta Spencer, David Dickau's setting of e.e. cummings' poem "I Carry Your Heart With Me" for male voices as well as other compositions and folk song settings. Assisting the choir will be Becky Asher, French horn and Trish Rooney, piano.
Auditions
January 30--February 18 Time and date TBA
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Rockford, IL 61107
Open auditions
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There will be open auditions for Camerata Emanon during the weeks of Jan. 30 to Feb. 18. Time and date by appointment.
Required: some music reading ability, past choral experience preferred, prepared selection is optional. contact: info@camerata-emanon.com
Spring Concert
May 14, 2011
Unitarian Universalist Church
4848 Turner Street
Rockford, IL 61107
$10 admission
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Animal Crackers and other delights: songs of whimsy, wonder and wisdom
Saturday, May 14, 2011 at 7:30 p.m.
The Unitarian Universalist Church
4848 Turner Street
Rockford, IL 61103
adults: $10 students $5
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An evening of choral music featuring Eric Whitacre's "Animal Crackers" set to the poetry of Ogden Nash as well as compositions by Kesselman, Sondheim, Harris and Bernstein and arrangements by Wilberg, Rathbone and Marvin. Performing with the choir will be Trish Rooney and Jean Anderson, pianists; Anton Hatwich, bass and Ed Pawelski, percussion.