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12/4/06

NEW & OLD WORLD CHRISTMAS MUSIC PRESENTED BY SLU GROUP

CANTON - Christmas music from the "new" and "old" worlds will be performed in concerts by the St. Lawrence University Early Music Singers on Saturday, December 16, at 8 p.m. in Gunnison Memorial Chapel on campus and Sunday, December 17, at 2 p.m. in the Old Meetinghouse Museum in DeKalb, at 696 East DeKalb Road. Both are open to the public, free of charge.

For the concerts, the 13 voices of the Early Music Singers will be joined by several local instrumentalists in a program of music for the season from the 17th and 18th centuries, both from Europe and America. Featured will be the Messe de Minuit pour Noël (Midnight Mass for Christmas) by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, who lived and worked during the reign of Louis XIV. Carols by American composer William Billings and a Magnificat by Charles Theodore Pachelbel, who emigrated to the American colonies, will also be performed.

The Early Music Singers was formed by director Barry Torres in 1996 as a vocal contingent of the Early Music Ensemble. The select vocal ensemble of University students, with faculty and community members, rehearses strictly a cappella as they endeavor to invoke the spirit of the great vocal music of the Renaissance, Baroque and medieval periods. Special attention is paid to historical performance practice with respect to vocal production and style, such as non-vibrato singing and just intonation.

For more information, contact the music department at 315-229-5192.

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