A List 8/19/02 COMMUNITY MEMBERS WELCOMED IN SLU MUSIC ENSEMBLES CANTON - The St. Lawrence University music department offers several ensembles whose membership is open to the community. The University Chorus, the Early Music Players, the Early Music Singers and the Special Productions Ensemble will be accepting new members for the Fall 2002 semester. The University Chorus numbers between 40 to 50 singers. Its fall concerts, to be presented on Saturday, November 16, and Sunday, November 17, will feature Vivaldi's Gloria to be performed with orchestra. Music of Pachelbel, Britten and Vaughan-Williams will also be sung. The Chorus also sings in the annual Candlelight Service to be held this year on Wednesday, December 11. Rehearsals are on Tuesday evenings from 7 to 9 p.m. in Room 15 in Griffiths Arts Center. The Early Music Ensemble is comprised of two groups, the Early Music Players and the Early Music Singers. Their repertoire is drawn from the medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods and is played on a wide variety of early instruments from the University's Romer Collection, including recorders, crumhorns, harp, organetto, lute, viols, shawms and harpsichord. No previous experience on these instruments is required. However, a good working knowledge of modern strings, winds or keyboards is a plus. The Players rehearse on Monday evenings at 7 p.m. in Gilbert Recital Hall. The Singers concentrate on the great sacred a capella music of the time and meet on Thursdays in Gunnison Chapel also at 7 p.m. The Early Music Ensemble concert will be on Sunday, December 4. Auditions for these ensembles will be held on Tuesday, August 27; Thursday, August 29; and Wednesday, September 4, all from 7 to 9 p.m. in Room 24 of Griffiths Arts Center. If you cannot attend at these times or for more information please contact Barry Torres, director of music ensembles, at 315-229-5171 or btorres@stlawu.edu. The Special Productions Ensemble this semester is playing arrangements of songs from Richard Rodgers musicals from the 1930s. The performance, on Thursday, November 21, will be staged as an old-time radio show, with dance-band arrangements, some voice and piano arrangements, and some more lush orchestral numbers. Participation is open to all instrumentalists by audition only, which will be held in Gilbert Recital Hall in the Griffiths Art Center on Tuesday, September 3, from 5 to 7 p.m. and Wednesday, September 4, from 7 to 9 p.m. For further information on the Special Productions Ensemble, please contact director David Henderson at 315-229-5085 or dhenderson@stlawu.edu.-30- Back To News Releases Back to St. Lawrence Homepage