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Back to our Roots
Sunday, October 16, 2011, 4:00 p.m.
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
9 Leroy Street, Binghamton, NY
What better way to begin this season of
“Beginnings” than with a look back at
the music that first inspired the Madrigal choir
and gave it its name. The performance will
include madrigals and chansons of the English,
Italian, and French Renaissance – the golden
age of madrigal composition. The music celebrates
love, ladies, the ever-present nymphs and
shepherds, and creatures both great and small.
The singers will also visit the madrigal and
chanson form as it was explored in the twentieth
century by such composers as Claude Debussy, Paul
Hindemith, Stephen Paulus, and Ross Lee Finney.
We’ll even pay a call on that strangest of
all composers, P.D.Q. Bach.
Lessons and
Carols for Christmas
Saturday, November 26, 2011, 7:30
p.m. &
Sunday, November 27, 2011, 4:00 p.m.
Church of the Holy Trinity
346 Prospect Street, Binghamton, NY
Featured Artists: Peter Browne, organ,
Melissa Collins, harp, and “Simple
Gifts” Barbara Kaufman, recorders, and Paul
Sweeny, guitar
The Choir continues its popular annual tradition
of ushering in the holiday season with music and
readings centered on the Christmas story. The
program will include some popular favorites from
past years as well as a number of new carols
including a very special new work by Alice
Parker. The Choir and its many friends and
patrons commissioned the well-loved composer to
write a new work in honor of its Founding
Director, Anne Boyer Cotten. This work will
receive its first performance at these concerts.
Come listen, be inspired, and even sing along.
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.
Crossroads
Sunday, June 3, 2012, 4:00 p.m.
Tabernacle United Methodist Church
83 Main Street, Binghamton, NY
At various times in history, music and the
other arts have faced periods of change. Some of
these transitions have been dramatic and sudden,
while others more incremental. Certain composers
faced these artistic crossroads and chose to
“boldly go” in a new direction dragging
the rest of the musical world into a new age.
From Monteverdi to Beethoven to America’s
own William Billings and Charles Ives –
these were artists of skill, vision, and
originality. More recently in history composers
like George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein
blurred the boundaries between classical and jazz
traditions. This will be an afternoon celebrating
change through the music of some of
history’s eminent movers and shakers.
Thanks
for supporting
The Madrigal Choir of Binghamton!
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