WINTER LIGHTS
March 17 & 18, 2012
Winter Lights is an uplifting concert of music to hasten the coming of spring.
The concert will be held in Kingston at Redeemer Lutheran Church on Wurts Street
on Saturday, March 17th at 7:30 PM and repeated at Overlook United Methodist Church on route 212
in Woodstock on Sunday, March 18th at 4 PM.
Ars Choralis will perform Leonard Bernstein’s “Chichester Psalms”
with boy-soprano Morgan Camara, soloist. Also featured on the program will be
The Woodstock Elementary Chorus, under the direction of Harvey Boyer.
In recognition of St. Patrick’s Day, a special section of music from the Emerald Isle
will include Ars Choralis’ 2012 Voices of Tomorrow** honoree, Katelyn Noecker
and the Catskill Mountain Renaissance Consort joined by step-dancer Anna Tuttman.
Tickets for adults are $15 prepaid and $20 at the door. Tickets for children under 18 are half price.
They can be purchased online at this Website.
or from the following area merchants:
Mother Earth’s Storehouse and Barcone’s Music in Kingston,
DIG in Saugerties, Golden Notebook and Catskill Art & Office Supply in Woodstock.
For more information, call Sarah at 845-679-8587.
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WINGS OF HOPE: THE BERLIN AIRLIFT
June 16 & 17, 2012
In the words and music style of former concerts*,
Ars Choralis has chosen the historic Berlin Airlift,
the first humanitarian relief effort using planes, as its topic for its next concert.
The concert combines real life experiences of those who organized the relief effort,
pilots and ground crews who carried the life sustaining cargos
and the starving people who were the recipients of the relief
with music and dances of the 1940s.
Big Blue Big Band, directed by Jason Clinton, will play music of
Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Count Basie, Harry James and Benny Goodman, among others.
Dancers will swing to the music of the 40s.
The story will be told by Ars Choralis’ remarkable narrator Jim Ulrich with
the help of voices scattered throughout the chorus.
In addition to familiar pop songs of the big band era,
the chorus will also sing music of Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber.
Two performances of Wings of Hope will be performed locally in June.
Time and place to be announced.
* Ars Choralis is known for concerts weaving together choral music and the spoken word.
Examples of this concert format include American Christmas Cameos,
where excerpts from historic diaries were read alongside
musical images of Americana. Messengers of Peace,
concerts created to further human harmony,
combined music with inspiring quotes of well-known authors.
Music in Desperate Times was a Holocaust themed concert
honoring the women who played in the orchestra at Birkenau during WWII.
Quotes from their writings and biographies were interspersed with choral and orchestral music.
For more information about Ars Choralis concerts see “Concert Archives”.
This project is made possible (in part) through a grant from the Dutchess County Arts Council,
administrator of public funds through the New York State Council of the Arts' Decentralization Program.
**The Ars Choralis “Voices of Tomorrow” program was established to encourage young musicians
by featuring them in Ars Choralis concerts.
Visit “Voices of Tomorrow” for information about
Katelyn Noecker and see the wall of past honorees.
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