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Westminster Summer Choral Festival
July 26, 2019
TBA
The Westminster Summer Choral Festival provides an opportunity to live, study, and perform in a professional-level choral ensemble composed of singers and conductors from around the globe. Under the direction of Dr. Joe Miller, as well as several other renowned conductors from universities around the United States, each year the Summer Choral Festival centers around rehearsals and performances of a different masterwork from the western choral repertory. Other features of a typical daily schedule include conducting master classes, scholarly lectures and classes, round-table discussions, and one-on-one time with the conducting faculty.
The festival chorus will comprise 40 – 50 voices, with soloists chosen from among them.
As some visitors to this site might know, Dr. Joseph Flummerfelt was scheduled to serve as Guest Conductor for Westminster’s 2019 Summer Choral Festival. The entire Westminster Choir College community mourns the passing of this great conductor, and we are dedicating the 2019 Festival to his memory. We are grateful to Z. Randall Stroope for agreeing to step in a Guest Conductor. He will announce the repertoire that this year’s Festival will explore by June 1.
Performance
Saturday, July 27, 2019
Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall
Princeton University
Repertoire
William Averitt
Fire (No. 6, Afro-American Fragments)
J. S. Bach
“Jauchzet dem Herrn, Alle Welt” (BWV Anh. 160)
Johannes Brahms – Sehnsucht, Op. 112
Ēriks Ešenvalds – Swans
John Hopkins – Descendit Sicut Pluvia
Anders Öhrwall – Fäbodpsalm Från Dalarna
Arvo Pärt – Sieben Antiphonen
1. O Weisheit
4. O Schlüssel Davids
Jake Runestad – Alleluia
William Schuman – “To All, to Each” (No. 3, Carols of Death)
Charles Villiers Stanford – “Coelos Ascendit Hodie” (Three Motets)
Z. Randall Stroope – Odysseus and the Sirens
Z. Randall Stroope – Four Spanish Sonnets of Garcilaso de la Vega
1. En tanto que de rosa azucenda
3. Hermosas ninfas que
4. Amor de mi alma
Faculty
Z. Randall Stroope, Guest Conductor