Schola Sings Solo

This SCH affiliate performing ensemble returns for its fourth season with the popular Schola Sings Solo recital series.

Featuring SCH’s professional singers, the audience can expect to be delighted by a mix of opera arias, art songs, and show tunes/cabaret. SCH’s season theme of ‘freedom’ through full experiential access to all that life brings is highlighted in such songs as “This Moment” by John Bucchino, “Make Them Hear You,” from Ragtime, and favorites by Project Encore™ composer Barbara Wesby, Bernstein, Britten, Mozart, Verdi, Gounod, and others.

SCH Featured Composer Wayne Eastwood wrote an art song for SCH Artistic Director Deborah King that will be premiered in Ramsey on November 6, 2010. This show, newly created each season, is stage directed by Chuck Hudson and Gilberto Gomez, and is guaranteed as ‘friendly’ even to non-opera-lovers!

Concert Program:

Magic to Do, Pippin. Stephen Schwartz --Full cast, featuring Dorian Lake

Green Finch and Linnet Bird, Sweeney Todd. Stephen Sondheim --Laura Greenwald

Sul fil d’un soffio etesio, Falstaff. Giuseppe Verdi --Mary Ellen Assue

The Choirmaster’s Burial, Winter Words. Benjamin Britten --Chris Carter

Come Down Angels, arr. Undine Smith Moore --Caroline L. Sargent

Ah! Jeux veux vivre, Roméo et Juliette. Gounod --Zuzanna Ducka

Pa-Pa-Pa duet, Die Zauberflöte. W.A. Mozart --Zuzanna Ducka & Gilberto Gomez

Ach, Ich fühl's, Die Zauberflöte. W.A. Mozart --Mary Ellen Assue

Sing a Song with me. Wally Harper --Full cast, featuring Gilberto Gomez and Deborah King

Intermission

This Moment. John Bucchino --Deborah King

So Darling. Barbara Wesby** --Dorian Lake

Tu, Che di gel sei cinta, Turandot --Caroline L. Sargent

Gebet. Hugo Wolf --Chris Carter

A Love Poem In July. Wayne Eastwood*** --Deborah King

We Kiss in the Shadow, The King and I. Richard Rodgers* --Mary Ellen Assue & Gilberto Gomez

Try Me, Good King: Anne Boleyn. Libby Larsen --Laura Greenwald

Deep River, arr. Harry Burleigh --Dorian Lake

Make Them Hear You, Ragtime. Stephen Flaherty --Gilberto Gomez

Make Our Garden Grow, Candide. Leonard Bernstein --Full cast, featuring Chris Carter and
Mary Ellen Assue

**Barbara Wesby is a Project Encore™ composer. She wrote this song for Dorian Lake.

***Dr. Eastwood is SCH's Featured Composer 2010-2011. He wrote this song for Deborah King. It will receive its premiere in Ramsey, NJ, on 6 November.

Personnel: Deborah Simpkin King, Artistic Director
Lisa Laskowich, Music Director
Gilberto Gomez, Stage Director
Chuck Hudson, Coach

Snow Date for January:
Saturday, Feb. 5, 8:00 PM

News

THRESHOLDS

May 19 and 20, 2012

Through our annual Ethnic Series, SCH looks at the music of individual cultures and nationalities. Within this season’s theme of Healing, we examine transitions into and out of life on this earth through music and poetry recently acquired by Bellagio Resident Fellow Composer Andrea Clearfield during her two treks deep in the Himalayas (research funded by the Rubin Foundation). Fundamental to the culture of this region is the reality of a ‘healing spirit.’ Ms. Clearfield’s multi-movement work entitled Tse Go La, which translates to mean ‘At the Threshold of this Life,’ is based on material she discovered—poetry and music previously unheard by western ears. Tse Go La also incorporates new texts by anthropologist Sienna Craig, a noted researcher of Tibetan society, culture and history. It is SCH’s privilege to premiere the chamber version of this major composition.

Also included in these concerts are Featured Composer Ivo Antognini’s ‘Life is a Circle,’ and Blake R. Henson’s ‘My Flight for Heaven.’
REBIRTH

This weekend Schola Cantorum on Hudson presents 'Rebirth.' The Manhattan performance will be at St. Paul the Apostle, a new location for SCH, and Montclair, NJ. Tickets purchased online or in advance through the box office are $15, they will be $20 at the door. For more information, visit the 'Rebirth' concert page.
SCH TO PERFORM BY INVITATION IN CONCERTS FOR ESTONIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY AND AT ALICE TULLY HALL FEBRUARY 25, 2012

SCH is honored to announce that it will be performing by invitation in the Estonian consulate's Independence Day events on February 25th. This event is open to the public. The Independence Day concert costs $20 for adults, $15 for seniors, and children under 17 are free. It will be held at The Community Church of New York, 40 East 35th St. (Park & Madison), NYC. A reception afterwards will be held at the NY Estonian House, 234 E. 34th Street, NYC, with Saare Vikat folkdancing and open kitchen and bar.

In the evening, SCH will again perform by invitation in a concert at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center. For more information on this performance and to purchase tickets, please visit the Lincoln Center concert listing here.
SCHOLA CANTORUM ON HUDSON WISHES YOU A WARM SEASON, WITH A GIFT . . .

Click here to see our Season's Greeting and free gift of music.

Schola Sings Solo