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December 2007

VOICES Chorale
Sotto Voce Ensemble

Lyn Ransom,
Music Director and Conductor

Tim Brown,
Principal Accompanist

VOICES Chorale
Sotto Voce Ensemble

Lyn Ransom,
Music Director and Conductor

Steven Snow, Tenor

Tim Brown,
Principal Accompanist

March 2008

VOICES members in rehearsal, Basilica San Giovanni e Paolo, Venice, June 2007
(Photo: Jeff Price)

Glories of Venice

VOICES Chorale
Sotto Voce

With Soloists and Orchestra

Featuring:

Click here to download our concert poster!

Rochelle Ellis,
Soprano

Dana Wilson,
Tenor

For VOICES members and kin that joined with Chorkreis Sankt Sebald last spring in touring Bavaria and northern Italy, our memories still echo strongly in our lives just as the last chord reverberates through the spaces and vaults of the great cathedrals in which we sang. (Visit our tour page.)

Join VOICES in celebrating the Glories of Venice featuring music from its greatest composers and music of other composers inspired by Venice. The concert will be preceded by a slide show of Venice and a discussion of its culture and history led by Venetian native Dr. Simona Wright, Professor of Italian at The College of New Jersey. Masks typical of the carnival period in Venice will add their aura to the evening.

Featured:

Jubilate Deo (Gabrieli)

Magnificat (Monteverdi)

La Passagiata (Rossini)

Serenade to Music (Vaughn Williams)

Madrigals, motets and other music by Donato, Da Nola, Finetti, Schutz, Monteverdi, Offenbach, and Cole Porter

Lyn Ransom,
Music Director and Conductor

Tim Brown,
Principal Accompanist

Ticket Ordering Information
Tickets are available at the door,
or in advance by calling (609) 637-9383
25% discount with NJ Arts Pass!

May 2008

VOICES Chorale
Sotto Voce

With Soloists and Orchestra

Lyn Ransom,
Music Director and Conductor

Andrew W. Monath,
Assistant Conductor

Our May program includes music which singers and audiences have most appreciated and enjoyed during the twenty years VOICES has been offering concerts in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania.

Featuring pieces and excerpts:

Hail Mary (Rachmaninoff, All-Night Vigil)
Svete Tihiy (Gretchaninoff)
Abendlied (Rheinberger)
Requiem (Durufle)
Grand Mass in C Minor (Mozart)
St. John Passion (Bach)
Light Footfall (Lewin)

Also featuring "Shelter this Candle," a commissioned work for our 20th Anniversary by Elizabeth Alexander

Martha Elliott,
Soprano

Ryan Brechmacher,
Piano

Ruotao Mao,
Violin

Ticket Ordering Information
Call (609) 637-9383
25% discount with NJ Arts Pass!

June 2008

Heart & Music:
From Broadway to Brahms
(just joking, no Brahms)
-A Cabaret

VOICES Cabaret Singers

J. A. Kawarsky, Director

The VOICES Cabaret will take place at the Stockton Inn in the beautiful Glass Room. The Inn (circa 1710) is a well-known historic landmark located in Stockton, New Jersey just outside Lambertville. The inn was the inspiration for the Rodgers & Hart song, "There's a Small Hotel."

The cabaret is being co-produced by Bob Egan Entertainment and Laurie Tema-Lyn for VOICES. It will feature eight members of VOICES under the musical direction of J.A. Kawarsky, Professor of Music at Westminster Choir College and no stranger to the local cabaret scene. Program highlights include Jennifer Brader's moving rendition of "Someone Else's Story;" the groups' politically relevant, "The Country's in the Very Best of Hands;" "For Now," and many other favorites from Broadway and beyond.

The VOICES cabaret is a special fundraising event to support of VOICES' 20th Anniversary and our community outreach programs for seniors and children. The entertainment charge is $25 per person, plus $10 minimum for food/beverages during the show.

Photo: VOICES' cabaret singers, from left to right, front row: Tim Henry, Andy Monath, Laurie Tema-Lyn, Jennifer Brader; from left to right, back row: Alan Naidoff, Wayne Irons, Jay Kawarsky, Ron O'Reilly, Helen Kull

Print and display our poster!

Seating is limited! We encourage early reservations by calling the Stockton Inn at (609) 397-1250.

VOICES Young Composers Concert

Winners of 2007 Children's Music Composition Contest

VOICES Chorale
Sotto Voce

Winners of our 20th annual Children's Composition Contest!

Lyn Ransom, Andrew Monath,
Conductors

Ryan Brechmacher, Jay Kawarsky,
Piano

Families, friends, and the general public are invited to join the winners of the 20th Children’s Music Composition Contest and the VOICES Chorale in our VOICES Young Composers concert.

For VOICES’ annual Music Composition Contest, children ages 5-12 were invited to compose a piece of music with a vocal element. Each submission was then reviewed by Rebecca Oswald, an established composer living and working in Eugene, Oregon. Eleven children entered the contest this year, and many of them will perform their pieces at the concert.

Program:

Ticket Ordering Information
Tickets may be purchased at the door
25% discount with NJ Arts Pass!

2008 Summer Sings and Ice Cream Social

If you or someone you know is a singer with some music reading skills, please join us this summer 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. There is a suggested donation at the door.

Thursday, July 17, 7:30 p.m., Handel, The Messiah, Anchor Presbyterian Church, 980 Durham Road (Route 413), Wrightstown, PA 18940 (Click here for more...)

Thursday, August 7, 7:30 p.m., Haydn's St. Theresa Mass, Music Together, 225 Pennington-Hopewell Road, Hopewell, New Jersey 08525 (Details TBA)

Auditions for new singers can be scheduled before and after the sings—call Sandy Duffy, membership chair, at 609-799-2211 for an appointment.

In keeping with our Young Composers Concert's music making and ice cream theme, each sing will be followed by an ice cream social. We hope you’ll join us for a taste of choral singing with VOICES.