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Westminster Choir Tour Homecoming Concert
January 27, 2020 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Free Admission But Tickets Are Required
Welcome the Westminster Choir back to Princeton as it presents a program with repertoire rooted deep in Westminster Choir’s history as well as works by Westminster Choir alumni, to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of its founding in 1920. Between these features, the choir will perform Benjamin Britten’s Hymn to Saint Cecilia, reflecting Westminster Choir’s spirit and mission as it “appeared and inspired” thousands of choral musicians over the past century.
Westminster Choir
Joe Miller, conductor
Free admission, but tickets are required.
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Setting the standard for choral excellence since 1920, the Westminster Choir is composed of students at Westminster Choir College. It has been the chorus-in-residence for the prestigious Spoleto Festival USA since 1977, performing both in concert and as the opera chorus.
Recent seasons have included concert tours in Beijing, China, and Spain, as well as participation in the World Symposium on Choral Music in Barcelona and groundbreaking performances of Julia Wolfe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Anthracite Fields at the historic Roebling WireWorks as part of Westminster’s Transforming Space project.
The Westminster Choir has been hailed by audiences and critics for its creative programming and ability to deeply engage listeners. D.C. Theatre Scene praised its staged performance of Joby Talbot’s Path of Miracles at the 2019 Spoleto Festival USA, writing: “Joe Miller, and his famed Westminster Choir, has reimagined the art of a choir ‘concert,’ and, in the course of it, created before our eyes – for forty-one singers and an audience that filled the Galliard Auditorium – something of (their) own miracle.”
