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April 19,
2002
Spring
Arts Events Times Two
MHC Glee Club and Chamber Singers to Join Voices with Harvard
Glee Club and Valley Festival Orchestra April 20
More than 120 voices—the combined glee clubs of MHC and
Harvard—with an orchestra of advanced students and local
professionals will perform Nänie by Brahms Saturday, April
20, at 8 pm in Abbey Chapel. The piece, with text by Schiller,
features allusions to great figures from classical myth and laments
the transitory nature of all things: life, love, beauty, and heroic
glory. The orchestra will also accompany the Mount Holyoke women
in the "Spring" portion of Vaughan Williams's Folk
Songs of the Four Seasons. Founded in 1858, the Harvard Glee club
is the oldest college chorus in America, and one of the world's
outstanding male choruses. Acting director Kevin Leong will conduct
the Harvard Glee Club in Renaissance works by Josquin and others,
as well as contemporary multicultural folk song settings. Hammond-Douglass
Professor of Music and MHC choral director Catharine Melhorn will
lead MHC's groups in a variety of works for women's
voices by Brahms, Wagner, Villa Lobos, and Winslow. The Chamber
Singers will offer an early cycle of Hungarian folk songs by Ligeti,
as well as a Shona song from Zimbabwe arranged and accompanied
by MHC senior Jennifer Kyker, a virtuoso performer on the mbira
(thumb piano). Tickets may be reserved by calling x2306 and may
also be purchased at the door. Unreserved seating is $3 for students/seniors
and $5 for the general public.
Student Dancers Take to the Stage
April 19–20
Mount Holyoke dance students will present a program of original
choreography in Mired Images, a student dance concert, Friday,
April 19, and Saturday, April 20, at 8 pm in the Kendall Dance
Studio Theatre. Reservations may be made by calling the box office
at x2848. Tickets are $5 for general admission and $3 for students,
seniors, and children. Reservations are recommended.
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