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THE MADRIGAL
CHOIR OF BINGHAMTON
Beginnings
Sunday, March 11, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
Trinity Memorial Church
44 Main Street, Binghamton, NY
Featured Guests: the Parlor City Boys’ Chorus directed by Ghislaine Stewart
The signature concert of the season features music about all things “new” -- new life, new love, new days, new seasons, and new worlds. The central featured work is a setting of the creation story by Canadian composer, Ruth Watson Henderson. The composer’s text is an adaptation of the “home spun” retelling of the Genesis story, God’s Trombones. Throw in a couple of overtures and show openers and we have an afternoon of beginnings not to be missed.
New Artistic Director:
Dr.
Bruce Borton
"New Beginnings"
season announced
The
Madrigal Choir of Binghamton, the select
chamber choral ensemble founded by Anne
Boyer Cotten in 1978, has announced the
selection of Dr. Bruce Borton as the next
Artistic Director.
Selected after a 20-month search process,
Dr. Borton brings a great deal of
experience to the podium. He's Director
of Choral activities at Binghamton
University, where he's taught since 1988.
For ten years prior to that, he was
conducting assistant to the legendary
Robert Shaw with the Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra Chorus. No stranger to the
Madrigal Choir, Dr. Borton has sung with
the group, led the singers as a guest
conductor, and has served on the board of
directors.
Anne Cotten didn't set out to lead a
choir for 33 years. She and some friends
just gathered around her dining room
table to sing music they liked. After a
while, they were saying "Hey, we're
pretty good, we should perform!".
Under Anne's leadership, the choir has
premiered a new work by Alice Parker,
commissioned and premiered a new piece by
British composer Barry Seaman, and
performed over 200 concerts in the
Greater Binghamton area and beyond,
including Anne's signature concert
"Ceremony and Celebration for
Twelfth Night." With her retirement
from Broome Community College's
Department of Fine and Media Arts, Anne
has moved to Arizona, closer to family.
Founded
in 1978 by Anne Boyer Cotten, The
Madrigal Choir of Binghamton is a
not-for-profit chamber choir dedicated to
the art of a cappella choral
performance. We perform sacred and
secular works drawn from the medieval
period through the present in concerts
around the Binghamton, NY area.
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