The Chestnut Street Singers were live from WRTI's Performance Studio in advance of their March 6th and 8th concerts celebrating the past and future of their ensemble, now in its 10th season. WRTI's Susan Lewis, host.
Watch the performance recorded live on WRTI's Facebook page. Click here!
Based in Center City, Philadelphia, Chestnut Street Singers is a cooperative chamber choir, which performs both classic choral repertoire and new works. Conducting duties are shared by several conductors, and this program at WRTI includes a world premiere set to texts written by former and current members of the group. Composer Dale Trumbore joins the ensemble at WRTI.
PROGRAM:
William Byrd: "Ave Verum Corpus"
Dale Trumbore: "The World is Chaos" from A Different Kind of Flight (world premiere, Chestnut Street Singers 10th Anniversary Commission)
Ross Lee Finney: "On a Round Ball" from Spherical Madrigals
Samuel Barber: "To Be Sung on the Water"
Richard Rodgers, Arr. Karim Al-Zand: "My Romance"
The Chestnut Street Singers:
Sopranos: Amy Hochstetler, Logan Laudenslager, Erina Pearlstein, Rebekah Reddi, Caroline Winschel, Michele Zuckman
Altos: Elissa Kranzler, Rebecca Roy, Lizzy Schwartz, Melinda Steffy
Tenors: Cortlandt Matthews, Hank Miller, Kevin Vondrak
Basses: Conrad Erb, Walker Gosrich, Michael Johnson, Nathan Lofton, Andrew Shaw
Conductors: Nathan Lofton (Finney, Rogers); Kevin Vondrak (Byrd, Trumbore); Michele Zuckman (Barber)
Chestnut Street Singers presents: Always Singing on Friday, March 6th, 8 PM at the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, and Sunday, March 8th, 4 PM at St. Mark's Church Locust Street. More info here.
The program includes the works performed at WRTI (except for the Byrd) along with others by Hoagy Carmichael, George Gershwin, Adolphus Hailstork, Kevin Puts, Dale Warland, and Julia Wolfe.
