[nfbmi-talk] {Disarmed} Fw: Ann Arbor Cantata Singers 2012

[Donna Posont]

Awesome Terry, I feel honored to know you. Keep shining, Donna
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Wurtzel" <f.wurtzel at att.net>
To: "'NFB of Michigan Internet Mailing List'" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 3:32 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] {Disarmed} Fw: Ann Arbor Cantata Singers 2012


> Terri,
>
> Very Nice.  Bravo!
>
>
> Warmest Regards,
> Fred
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of trising
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 3:22 PM
> To: Eric Christine Griffon; Rod Griffon; NFBofMichigan List; esther 
> jurchen;
> Tom Strode; VENUS ANN CARLSON; Gwen Aparicio; sandy; Jennifer Rizzo; karen
> schen; Rolina Painter
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] {Disarmed} Fw: Ann Arbor Cantata Singers 2012
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: trising
> To: trising
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 12:23 PM
> Subject: Ann Arbor Cantata Singers 2012
>
>
> Ann Arbor Cantata Singers 2012
> Feel the love
> by James Leonard
>
> posted 5/18/2012
>
> While it was well attended-seventy-some folks gathered in St. Paul's
> Lutheran Church on Liberty on a sunny February -afternoon-the Ann Arbor
> Cantata Singers' concert called Serenades and Nocturnes still seemed very
> intimate. Partly it was the program: all love songs, nine for chorus, six
> for soloists. Partly it was the audience, made up mostly of friends, 
> family,
> and lovers. Partly it was the size of the chorus: two tenors, six basses,
> and seven each of sopranos and altos. Mostly it was the Cantata Singers
> themselves. Whether trained or untrained, each clearly loved singing, 
> loved
> the repertoire, loved each other, and loved the audience there to hear 
> them.
>
> One could feel the love in the warm harmonies of the Brahms choral songs
> that opened each half of the concert, in the blend of the passionate women
> and the doughty men as they embraced Brahms' romantic melodies. True, the
> tenors did sound a tad thin in exposed passages, but there were only two 
> of
> them and they had to hold up their end against unfair odds. And true, the
> group's performances of madrigals by Arcadelt, Gibbons, and Wilbye did
> sometimes go a bit off pitch toward the ends of longer sections. But their
> performances of the Elgar songs that ended the first half were as 
> beautiful
> as their Brahms and perhaps even more heartfelt.
>
> And one could certainly feel the love in the solo songs. Bass Rob Northrup
> sang Fred Coots's "You Go to My Head" with such sincerity that one 
> suspects
> he was singing for soprano Quincy Northup. Soprano Alicia Verdier-Hammonds
> gave her all to Douglas Moore's "Willow Song," and the program notes that
> she "is loving the opportunity to sing with her girlfriend, Maggie." But 
> it
> was bass Tom Lloyd, a U-M pediatrics professor with four kids, who 
> impressed
> most as a soloist when he turned in an ardent, impeccable, and quite droll
> version of Schubert's amusing "An die Leier."
>
> What impressed most in the whole concert was the
>
> ...continued below...
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ----
> final number: Vaughan Williams' ecstatic "Serenade to Music" featured a
> performance to match the music. These melodies are more lush and the
> harmonies more sensuous than even those in the Brahms, and under conductor
> Warren Puffer Jones's expert direction, the Cantata Singers delivered a
> deeply moving performance, particularly the clarion solo work from soprano
> Terri Wilcox, who, the program notes, enjoys riding roller coasters with 
> her
> husband.
>
> The Cantata Singers' next concert will be a season-closing lollapalooza,
> Haydn's The Creation, which they'll perform three times in May: at the 
> First
> United Methodist Church in Brighton on the 18th, at Christ Church 
> Cranbrook
> on the 19th, and back in Ann Arbor on the 20th at the First Congregational
> Church.
>
> If the February concert was the Singers' idea of love, I'd like to hear
> their notion of creation.
> _______________________________________________
> nfbmi-talk mailing list
> nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbmi-talk_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> nfbmi-talk:
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbmi-talk_nfbnet.org/f.wurtzel%40att.net
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> nfbmi-talk mailing list
> nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nfbmi-talk_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for 
> nfbmi-talk:
> http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nfbmi-talk_nfbnet.org/donnabutterfly50%40gmail.com