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November 15, 2002
Concert
in Holyoke to 'Raise the Song of Harvest Home'
A familiar
Thanksgiving hymn invites "ye thankful people" to "raise
the song of harvest home!" In a concert to be presented Sunday,
November 17, at 3 pm, two Mount Holyoke choirs will do just that
at Our Lady of Sorrows Chapel in Holyoke, performing music of
celebration and praise. Directed by Mark Bartley, the Concert
Choir is made up of fifty-five first-year students. A performance
by the Chamber Singers, a smaller, more select group drawn from
the Concert Choir and the College's Glee Club, will be led
by Catharine Melhorn, the College's choral director and Hammond-Douglass
Professor of Music. The concert will include a wide variety of
classical and contemporary works by Felix Mendelssohn, Giuseppe
Verdi, Irving Fine, and others. Together with College organist
Larry Schipull, the Chamber Singers will perform Francis Poulenc's
spiritual and dramatic "Litanies of the Black Virgin: Our
Lady of Roc-Amadour." Mark Gionfriddo, director of Mount
Holyoke's jazz program, is piano accompanist for the Concert
Choir. There will be several opportunities for the audience to
join the choirs in singing seasonal hymns, accompanied by organ
and trumpet.
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