Featured this week on the Morning Show – Choral Society’s Spring Concert “Resilience & Hope”
April 24, 2024April 24, 2024
This Week’s “Morning Show” Features:
Choral Society’s Spring Concert —
“Resilience & Hope” —
with Penny Lazarus and Brian Greenberg
Brian Greenberg, Media Director of the Newburyport Choral Society (NCS) and Penny Lazarus, Membership Director, will visit the show this week to discuss the NCS annual Spring concert scheduled for May 4th and 5th.
Penny and Brian are welcome return guests, who always do a fabulous job of generating excitement about NCS concerts by exploring the lives of composers and the musical styles of their works. They’ll start by talking about how the musical selections, curated by NCS Music Director Dr. Minji Kim, reflect the concert’s theme of “Resilience and Hope.”
They will discuss why Maurice Durufle’s renowned Requiem has been described as “peaceful and chant-like” in some parts, yet “exciting and bold” in others; what makes French composer Lili Boulanger’s Psalm 24 “majestic”; and how Rosephanye Powell’s “Cry of Jeremiah” achieves its “rousing heights.”
They will also talk about the mysticism of North Shore composer Mary Montgomery Koppel’s “Stabat Mater Speciosa” and the lyricism of “Spring in My Hometown,” by Hye-Young-Cho, composer-in-residence for the National Chorus of Korea.
Brian and Penny will also describe NCS’s Guest Conductor for this concert, Brad Dumont, who holds a Masters of Music in Choral Conducting from Boston University and recently served as Director of Choral Activities at Assumption University.
Saturday’s concert will be held at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday’s at 4 p.m. Both concerts will be held at the new Pentucket Regional High School Auditorium, 24 Main Street, Route 113, in West Newbury. An 18-piece orchestra and two soloists, soprano Katherine Maysek and baritone Will Prapestis will accompany the chorus.
For tickets and information, visit www.tickets.chorusconnection.com/nbptcs/events/1008.