Upcoming Events
December 2019
A Century of A Cappella Gems
Clara Longstreth writes of this program, “I have never received rapturous praise from singers and audiences alike equal to what has been true for Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Chorus. We sang it in 1990 as the main piece on an all-Martin Centennial Concert, and again in 2008. We now return to this masterpiece in 2019. Almost everything else on the program is new to NAS, although several are new pieces by well-known composers whose music we love.” The women…
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Clara Longstreth writes of this program, “I have never received rapturous praise from singers and audiences alike equal to what has been true for Frank Martin’s Mass for Double Chorus. We sang it in 1990 as the main piece on an all-Martin Centennial Concert, and again in 2008. We now return to this masterpiece in 2019. Almost everything else on the program is new to NAS, although several are new pieces by well-known composers whose music we love.” The women…
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Through the Seasons
The major piece is a world premiere of our commission from Robert Paterson for chorus and marimba. NAS audiences may remember his wizardry with an “impossible” text (Row, Row your Boat) in Life is But a Dream as well as his Choral Suite from A New Earth. The women will sing Persichetti’s Winter Cantata, that is accompanied by flute and marimba, which we enjoyed singing in 1988 and 1995, and it deserves another outing. The men will do a Britten…
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The major piece is a world premiere of our commission from Robert Paterson for chorus and marimba. NAS audiences may remember his wizardry with an “impossible” text (Row, Row your Boat) in Life is But a Dream as well as his Choral Suite from A New Earth. The women will sing Persichetti’s Winter Cantata, that is accompanied by flute and marimba, which we enjoyed singing in 1988 and 1995, and it deserves another outing. The men will do a Britten…
Find out more »May 2020
American Voices, Classic and New
This program of American music is a combination of old favorites and brand new pieces. Barber’s Reincarnations was last on an NAS program in 2008 sung by Chamber Chorus, who will sing it again. NAS first sang Copland’s In the Beginning in 1980 when we put together an all Copland 80th Birthday Celebration, attended by the composer. Since it is a great work and a choral showpiece, we have programmed it periodically over the decades and look forward to performing…
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