Tuesday, Nov 1, 2016
Three of Westminster’s choral ensembles will perform in Philadelphia and Princeton this weekend.
The Westminster Chapel Choir, conducted by Amanda Quist, will perform as part of the 2016 Family Weekend. The Family Weekend Concert will be Saturday, November 5 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church, 214 Nassau Street, in Princeton. Admission is free, but seating is limited. The program will include movements from W.A. Mozart’s Requiem in D Minor, Kim André Arnesen’s Even When He Is Silent by and Moses Hogan’s arrangement of Wade in the Water, as well as solo works performed by choir members.
Westminster Chapel Choir is composed of students in their first year of study at Westminster. As a member of the Westminster Choir College faculty, Amanda Quist conducts the Westminster Chapel Choir, Westminster Kantorei, and teaches graduate and undergraduate conducting.
The Westminster Williamson Voices, conducted by James Jordan, will present a concert titled “Pärt The Mystic” at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Philadelphia on Saturday, November 5 at 7:30 P.M. The ensemble Kanon Pokajanen, a stunning work by renowned Estonian composer Arvo Pärt. The work was inspired by the text of an early Orthodox hymn, the Canon of Repentance to Our Lord Jesus Christ. Part devoted two years to composing this evening-length work. The Westminster Williamson Voices will perform it again at the Metropolitan Museum’s Temple of Dendur on Saturday, November 19. That concert has been sold out for months, so the concert in Philadelphia offers the community the only other opportunity to hear this choral masterwork.
The Westminster Choir, conducted by Joe Miller, will present a concert titled “A Thousand Years to Live” twice this weekend: Saturday, November 5 at 7:30 P.M. at the New Sanctuary at Fairview in Fairview Village, Pa. and Sunday, November 6 at 3:00 P.M. in Bristol Chapel on the Westminster campus in Princeton. The program’s theme reflects on the words of American Shaker Ann Lee, “ Do all your work as though you had a thousand years to live, and as you would if you knew you must die tomorrow,” which conclude Paul Crabtree’s composition The Valley of Delight: Death and Resurrection. The choir will also perform Uģis Prauliņš’ Laudibus in sanctis; Kile Smith’s “Yes, It’s beautiful” from The Consolation of Apollo; Brahms’ Abendstandchen and Warren Martin’s Great Day, as well as other works. The audience will be invited to participate in a project titled “Today I Will,” that asks them to consider how they will use the day’s 24 hours and share their intention using social media with the hashtag #TodayIwill.