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VOICES' mission is to deepen the public appreciation of vocal music by performing outstanding choral music at a high artistic level and by supporting the creation of new works. Listen to VOICES in our video by Albert Kahn! |
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VOICES is Proud to Announce
Our Collaboration with the Bucks County Choral Society
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the 2012 Princeton Festival
In a first-time collaboration as part of the prestigious Princeton Festival, the 150 singers of VOICES and Bucks County Choral Society and soprano Jane Kamp, accompanied on Princeton University Chapel's glorious Skinner organ, will perform choral masterworks. Two acclaimed choruses will join forces to perform magnificent music befitting a grand cathedral. The 70-minute concert will be preceded by an organ prelude with John Andrew Bailey playing works of the Nigerian master composer Fela Sowande. Open seating is available in three sections, at $75, $35, and $25 per ticket. Tickets are available online through the Princeton Festival (click here), by phone at 609.258.2787, in person at the McCarter Theatre Ticket Office, 91 University Place, Princeton, NJ 08540 or through chorus members. See the Princeton Festival brochure for details. Sunday, June 10, at 7:30 PM at the Princeton University Chapel, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540 |
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2011-2012 24th Season |
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Click to download and print our 2011-2012 Season Brochure! VOICES concerts provide a mix of old and new music and solo, small group and large group experiences. Join us! CATHEDRAL CLASSICS In a first-time collaboration as part of the prestigious Princeton Festival, the 150 singers of VOICES and Bucks County Choral Society and soprano Jane Kamp, accompanied on Princeton University Chapel's glorious Skinner organ, will perform choral masterworks. Two acclaimed choruses will join forces to perform magnificent music befitting a grand cathedral. The 70-minute concert will be preceded by an organ prelude with John Andrew Bailey playing works of the Nigerian master composer Fela Sowande. Open seating is available in three sections, at $75, $35, and $25 per ticket. Tickets are available online through the Princeton Festival (click here), by phone at 609.258.2787, in person at the McCarter Theatre Ticket Office, 91 University Place, Princeton, NJ 08540 or through chorus members. See the Princeton Festival brochure for details. Sunday, June 10, at 7:30 PM at the Princeton University Chapel, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08540 SUMMER SINGS Watch this space for announcements for our summer 2012 open sings! If you or someone you know is a singer with some music reading skills, please join us for informal read-throughs of choral masterworks. This summer we will offer singing nights in Hopewell, New Jersey, and in Wrightstown, Pennsylvania. Soloists, pianists, conductors and printed music are provided, or singers may bring their own. Music is followed by an "ice cream social." All facilities are wheelchair accessible. There is a suggested donation of $5.00 at the door. |
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All VOICES venues are
wheelchair-accessible. Large print programs are available.
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VOICES was founded in 1987 to provide outstanding performances of new and classical music and to interest children in composing and singing. VOICES Chorale, an auditioned chorus with members from New Jersey and Pennsylvania, was founded in 1992 to provide outstanding performance opportunities for community singers. (See A Short History of VOICES.) The Chorale performs an unusually varied repertoire, including choral masterworks and premieres by American composers. Our Music Director is Dr. Lyn Ransom. Our Associate Conductor is Andrew Monath. VOICES is pleased to welcome Camilla Jarnot as our principal pianist.
VOICES performs six to
eight formal concerts and several
outreach concerts for retirement communities each year in Mercer County, New
Jersey and Bucks County, Pennsylvania. VOICES has appeared with major orchestras, including the Pittsburgh Symphony, the New Jersey Pops, Riverside Symphonia, and Princeton Symphony Orchestra. The group has performed in
New York City and has toured internationally three times, with our most recent tour, to
Bavaria and northern Italy, in the
spring of 2007. Our current membership is over 65 singers, including a 24
member chamber ensemble called Sotto Voce. Our rehearsals intersperse historical information and interpretive skills with the disciplined practice essential to fine performance. We usually rehearse Monday nights
from 7:30-9:45 pm at
Music Together's International Headquarters in Hopewell, New
Jersey. Singers interested in joining VOICES Chorale are invited to contact the audition coordinator, Sandy Duffy, at 609-799-2211, or e-mail auditions@VOICESChorale.org.
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 Lyn Ransom, DMA, Music Director Lyn Ransom founded VOICES as a non-profit musical organization. She holds degrees from Oberlin College, the University of Michigan, and a Doctor of Musical Arts from the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. She has conducted and taught in England, Russia and Germany. |
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Gift alert! Reduced price! The spiral bond book is filled with an array of favorite recipes of Chorale-members, including those of VOICES' "sister" chorale, Chorkreis St. Sebald in Erlangen, Germany. Edited by VOICES members Ruth Baggitt and Irene Ey, the cookbook contains 200 delicious recipes of appetizers, soups, salads, main dishes, desserts, beverages and breads. Some are very simple and easy to prepare; others are more elaborate recipes, some are yummy and "figure-friendly", others are decadently indulgent. The book also contains useful information and cooking tips. It is a great gift for friends, family, or to indulge yourself! Purchase at our concerts or order online, now for only $5.00 plus Domestic S&H of $2.00 per book for online orders. For only $5 more, we'll include a CD of VOICES performance of the Durufle Requiem, recorded in the beautiful Trinity Cathedral in Trenton, NJ! |
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VOICES is supported in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and by funds from the Mercer County Executive and the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders.
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Last update: April 28, 2012
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