Day of the Dead: A Musical Seance
Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 5:00pm
On the feast of All Saints and the day after Halloween, Choral Chameleon commemorates and evokes the departed with a stunning array of new and obscure works, as well as new pieces, written in honor of this life and the next and everything in between. Works include the WORLD PREMIERE of “Sempiterna” by 2009-2010 Composer-In-Residence, Jeffrey Parola as well as Berlioz, Schütz, Talma, Tori Amos and Edwin Hawkins, among others.
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Fourth Universalist Society160 Central Park West at 76th Street
New York NY
Choose Something Like A Star
Saturday, December 12, 2009 at 8:00pm
Come and celebrate the season in true Choral Chameleon fashion with a diverse selection of holiday music including works by Randall Thompson, Curt Oliver, Alfred Burt, Composer-In-Residence Jeffrey Parola, plus medieval pieces from Piae Cantiones 1582. “Steadfast as Keats’ eremite”, the star you choose to guide your way has only one true meaning: the one you believe.
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John Street United Methodist Church44 John Street
New York NY
Hymns for the Amusement of Children
Sunday, April 18, 2010 at 5:00pm
Wonderful texts by Christopher Smart and The Brothers Grimm provide engaging lessons for the listener; Choral Chameleon delivers them in the form of musical nursery rhymes and fables. Works for choir and piano four-hands include the world premiere of Such Beautiful Things by Jeffrey Parola with libretto by Tony Asaro, based on “The Traveling Musicians” by The Brothers Grimm, plus Conrad Susa’s Hymns for the Amusement of Children, Irving Fine’s Alice In Wonderland Songs and John Rutter’s Five Childhood Lyrics.
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Price: $20 (discounts available)
Fourth Universalist Society160 Central Park West at 76th Street
New York NY