TOPSHAM – The Southern Maine Children’s Chorus will present a concert of traditional choral music plus holiday music.
The concert, under the direction of Lise Dunn, gets under way at 3 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 14, in Orion Performing Arts Center, Mount Ararat Middle School.
Assisting the director will be accompanist Katy Stetson and Monica Kantor-Churchill, assistant director.
The Concert Choir and Training Choir will alternate during the program.
A special feature this year is a chamber group, performing Benjamin Britten’s “Psalm 150” with the Concert Choir.
Instrumentalists will be Peter Stetson, bassoon; Chelsea O’Donnell and Lauren Grotton, flutes; Shana McConnell, clarinet; and Nina Oatley, timpani and cymbal.
The Concert Choir will also perform John Rutter’s arrangement of the German melody “Personent Hodie”; “Lux Aeterna” from X. Randall Stroope’s “Missa”; “Slava” from Rachmaninoff’s “Six Choruses, Opus 15”; “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming” by Michael Praetorius; “Cuncti Simus” from the Llibre Vermell; and “Magic Prayer” from S.I. Glick’s “Three Songs of Light” featuring Oatley on saxophone.
This choir will end with two carols, “Christmas Time Is Here” by Vince Giraldi, and “Carol of the Bells”
The Training Choir will perform George Frideric Handel’s “Art Thou Troubled”; “Wisselton,Wasselton” by Alan Bullard; “The Star” by Charles Collins; and “A Jubilant Gloria” by Mary Lynn Lightfoot.
The choirs will join to end the afternoon with “Night of Silence” and “Winter Wonderland.” FYI: call 780-5555. for further information.
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