photo by Jeff Thiebauth
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Tribute to a Choral Legacy
Erica Washburn conducts the NEC Chamber Singers, graduate choral conducting students Suzanne Jalbert and B. Darrel Whidden conduct the NEC Concert Choir, in this tribute to Tamara Brooks (1941–2012), who led NEC's choruses from 1989 through 2000.
Much of the repertoire performed tonight was also programmed by Brooks during her time at NEC, including a reprise of a work by alumnus Lior Navok, Meditations over Shore, that Brooks premiered and recorded here.
Washburn notes:
As Tamara was an advocate for new music, we will also give the Boston premiere of a new work by Anthony Maglione—"Set me as a seal"—for quartet, large choir, and flute. It is set in both English and Hebrew, and I think an appropriate homage to Tamara's passion for new music, and, the enduring love she and her husband, Theodore Bikel, shared—which I have heard so very much about
The Program (* =graduating seniors):
Anthony Maglione: Set Me As a Seal Upon Thine Heart
*Rebecca Wright, soprano
*Christine Lutes, alto
*Brandon Delgado, tenor
*Joshua Quinn, baritone
Lior Navok: Meditations over Shore
Minji Kim, soprano
*Julia Partyka, alto
Mark Schiappucci, tenor
Zachary Crowle, baritone
Vaughan Williams: Serenade to Music
*Mallory Zakeosian, soprano
*Laura Soto-Bayomi, soprano
*Michelle Sugiarto, soprano
*Sehee Park, soprano
*Christina DeMaio, mezzo-soprano
*Stephanie Mardjetko, mezzo-soprano
*A-Larenée Davis, mezzo-soprano
*Erika Littlejohn, mezzo-soprano
*Brandon Delgado, tenor
*Joseph Smith, tenor
*Joshua Quinn, tenor
*Patrick Shelton, tenor
Riley Vogel, bass
Corey Gaudreau, bass
Stephen D’Amico, bass
Zachary Johnson, bass
Vincent Persichetti: Selections from Flower Songs
*B. Darrel Whidden, graduate student conductor
Elliott Carter: Musicians Wrestle Everywhere
*Suzanne Jalbert, undergraduate student conductor
NEC CHAMBER SINGERS
Frobisher Bay ( arr. Diane Loomis)
*Joseph Smith, tenor
Timothy Ayres-Kerr, tenor
Robert Beckhard: The Grieving Wife
Anne Hruskoci, soprano
Zachary Johnson, bass
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