The Ithaca Community Chorus and Chamber Singers Ithaca, New York Gerald Wolfe, Director

NEWS FROM THE ITHACA COMMUNITY CHORUS
Week of February 25, 2008
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MESSAGE FROM GERALD WOLFE

HOMEWORK FOR 3/5: #22, 23, 24, 29, 32

MUSIC OF FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY

The ICC Chamber Singers will present a concert of music by Mendelssohn on Sunday, April 27, 8 PM at the Unitarian Church of
Ithaca. The program will include four gorgeous motets sung by the Chamber Singers and two organ sonatas played by Gerald Wolfe. The concert will be one hour in duration and admission is $5. Please invite your friends to join you in supporting our Chamber Singers and in enjoying great music!

ICC TRIO TOGETHER FOR OVER 45 YEARS!

Three of our ICC members have been singing together for over 45 years. Jack Burns, Carol Skinner, and Yvonne Parkes were members of the Ithaca Opera Association during the 1960s and 1970s. Jack and Carol played Lt. and Mrs. Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly. Yvonne sang in the choruses of Pagliacci and Tosca in which Jack was the lead tenor. Both Carol and Yvonne were paired with Jack in many opera excerpt programs and later sang as soprano and mezzo leads together in several productions. They also starred in three of Leonard Lehrman’s operas and under his direction frolicked as brother and sister in Hansel and Gretel and soared as young lovers in Rosenkavalier trios and duets.

Yvonne and Jack were the soloists in The Messiah during ICC’s first season in 1976 and in the chorus’s first Mozart Requiem. All three singers sang with the Chamber Singers for many years. Carol and Jack remain in the group. They have enjoyed maturing with the chorus and sharing so much of the world’s great vocal music.

OTHER COMMUNITY EVENTS

NYS BAROQUE CONCERT

NYS Baroque, an early music ensemble, will perform French Baroque chamber music at Grace Episcopal Church, 375 West Church at Davis, on March 2 at 4 p.m. as part of the 2007-2008 Music at Grace series.

Following the concert, monks from Mt. Savior Monastery will lead Evensong at Grace at 6 p.m.

The public is invited; a free-will offering will be accepted. Detailed directions may be obtained from the parish website: www.grace-elmira.org or by calling the parish office at 607-732-0545.

The program will feature Clara Rottsolk, soprano, Marika Holmqvist, violin, James Bobb, harpsichord, and artistic director Heather Miller Lardin, basse de viole.

ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE CHOIR CONCERT SUN. MARCH 2, 7:30 pm

The Elizabethtown College Choir under the direction of Matthew Fritz will present a concert at St. Luke Lutheran Church, 109 Oak Avenue in Collegetown at 7:30 pm on Sunday, March 2. The program's theme is "Traditions" and will include sacred and secular music from a variety of eras. No admission charge but a free will offering will be accepted. St. Luke is next to Collegetown Bagels, across the street from Cornell's Schwartz Center; parking in the Dryden Road parking garage or on the street. This concert is part of the Music at St. Luke series, which concludes on Tuesday, April 29 at 7 pm with a performance by the Ithaca College Early Music Ensemble.

DATES TO REMEMBER

Saturday, May 3 8:00 PM - ICC concert

NEWSLETTER ITEMS?

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Mary Royer
ICC Newsletter Editor
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