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12/11/06

SEASONAL MUSIC OFFERED IN NOONTIME SLU ORGAN RECITAL

CANTON - Music for the holiday season will be offered by organist Sondra Goldsmith Proctor in a free lunchtime recital, on Wednesday, December 20, from 12:15 to 12:45 p.m. in St. Lawrence University's Gunnison Memorial Chapel. All are welcome.

The program includes pieces that are arrangements of familiar melodies: "Greensleeves," by Ralph Vaughan Williams and two selections from Judas Maccabeus, by George Frederic Handel. Also to be performed are Max Reger's "Weihnachten," which concludes with "Silent Night," and "Fantasia on 'Adeste Fideles'" by Geoffrey Shaw, a piece that uses the "large colors and sounds of the organ."

Proctor, a resident of Canton, is a well known and respected organist and choral conductor in the eastern United States and especially in the Washington, DC, area, where she was director of music and arts/organist for the Westmoreland Congregational United Church of Christ for many years. She has played recitals in venues throughout the United States and Europe, including the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where she was the first woman to present a full-length organ recital. Proctor is also founder and director of Circle Singers, a chamber choir now beginning its 24th season. She has directed numerous church choirs and had a long association with the Paul Hill Chorale and the Washington Singers, based at the Kennedy Center. Proctor was also the first woman to conduct a concert on the stage of the Concert Hall of the Kennedy Center.

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