Centerpiece Concert: The Philadelphia Singers
David Hayes, Music Director
Thursday, June 11, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center for the Arts
260 South Broad Street on the Avenue of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 19102
Transportation will be provided.

Featuring:
Donald Martino: Seven Pious Pieces
Charles Martin Loeffler: By the Rivers of Babylon
Anton Bruckner: Mass in E Minor

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Opening Concert: The Princeton Singers & The Crossing
Steven Sametz, Artistic Director, The Princeton Singers
Donald Nally, Conductor, The Crossing
Wednesday, June 10, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
313 Pine St, Philadelphia, PA 19106

Concert is about 10 minutes walking distance (about ½ mile).
Concert included with registration.

Featuring:
Kile Smith: Where flames a word
Kirsten Broberg: Threadsuns
Bo Holten: Rain and Rush and Rosebush
Claudio Monteverdi: Sfogava con le Stelle
Orlando di Lasso: Toutes les nuits
Stephen Leek: Knowee
Steven Sametz: Shenandoah
Sametz: The Windhover

Youth Chorus Concert: New Jersey Youth Chorus
Trish Joyce, Artistic Director
Friday, June 12, 3:15 p.m.
Independence Seaport Museum

Concert included with registration.

Featuring:
Bob Chilcott: Like a Singing Bird
Stephen Leek: Riawanna
Lajos Bardos: Hej, Igazitsad!
arr. Erkki Pohjola: Are You Sleeping, Brother John
Stephen Hatfield: Las Amarillas
David Childs: Prayer of St. Francis
arr. Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory: Ain’t No Grave Can Hold My Body Down

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Community Concert: Singing City & Bucks County Choral Society
Jeffrey Brillhart, Music Director, Singing City
Thomas Lloyd, Artistic Director, Bucks County Choral Society
Friday, June 12, 2009, 8:00 p.m.
First Baptist Church
123 S 17th St, Philadelphia, PA 19103

Concert is about a 10-minute drive (about 2 miles).
Ticket price: $20. Purchase on the registration form or at the door; general admission.

Featuring:
David Conte: Elegy for Matthew (SC)
Chris DeBlasio: The Best Beloved (BCCS)

And selections from a combined tour of Brazil in July 2009:
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Ave Maria
Carlos Alberto Pinto da Fonseca: Muie Rendera
Craig Curry, arr. Jonathas Matias: Efesios em Samba
Roy Ringwald: All the Things You Are
George Gershwin/Robert Page: I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise
Jennifer Higdon: Amazing Grace
Moses Hogan: This Little Light of Mine
Thomas Lloyd: Stan’ Still Jordan
Hogan: My Soul’s Been Anchored in the Lord
Villa Lobos: Balaio

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Community Concert: Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia
with Leah Stein Dance Company and Presented by Peregrine Arts in Hidden City
Alan Harler, Music Director
Saturday, June 13, 2009, 4:00 p.m.
The First City Troop Armory
22 S. 23rd St, Philadelphia, PA 19103

Concert is about a 10-minute drive (about 2.5 miles). Transportation will be provided.
Ticket price: $20. Purchase on the registration form or at the door; general admission.

Come see and hear the exciting world premiere of Battle Hymns by Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang, featuring site-specific movement for chorus and dancers designed by Leah Stein at armory of the oldest military troop in the U.S.

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