The Women's Voices Chorus will perform Sunday
Women's Chorus to Perform Work by Duke Alumnus
Concert Sunday will celebrate "Songs of Innocence"
Friday, May 2, 2008
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Durham, NC -- A composition by Duke alumnus Craig DeAlmeida will be one of the highlights of a choral concert celebrating spring performed by the Women’s Voices Chorus in Durham Sunday.
The Concert, “Songs of Innocence and Dreams,” takes its name from poems of William Blake, “Songs of Innocence,” which provide the text for contemporary composer Craig DeAlmeida’s piece of the same name. DeAlmeida graduated from Duke in 1999.
The chorus is conducted by Allan Friedman, assistant conductor of the Duke Chapel Choir and director of the Duke Vespers Ensemble and the Duke Divinity School choir.
To celebrate spring, the concert features lullabies and nursery rhymes by composers both classic and modern, as well as folk song settings from England, Canada, Samoa, Wales, and elsewhere. Highlights include Franz Schubert’s “Psalm 23, ” Aaron Copland’s “Simple Gifts,” and Marylou India Jackson’s “Done Found My Lost Sheep,” as well as Irving Fine’s arrangements of Alice in Wonderland: “Father William,” “The Lobster Quadrille,” and “Lullaby of the Duchess.”
The chorus is the Triangle's only community-based classical chorus for sopranos and altos. Deborah Coclanis will accompany on piano.
The concert will be held at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 4, in University United Methodist Church, 150 E Franklin St., Chapel Hill. For more information call 684-3855, e-mail Allan Friedman, or visit the chorus’ website. Tickets, which will be available at the door, cost $10 for adults and $5 for students.
