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Spring Choral Showcase: UMD Chamber Singers

 UMD Chamber Singers outside.

Spring Choral Showcase: UMD Chamber Singers

College of Arts and Humanities | School of Music | The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center Sunday, May 16, 2021 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Online

Watch the archived video for the next two months on Vimeo.

The program features two favorite works by major composers Johann Sebastian Bach and Johannes Brahms. 

To begin, a smaller group of ten singers from the UMD Chamber Singers will perform the chorale motet by Bach, Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 225, with an accompanying ensemble of strings and organ. This large scale motet is symmetrically structured in eleven movements with the central sixth movement fugue acting as the pillar for the entire work. Jesu, meine Freude contains some of Bach’s most musically expressive and rhetorically demonstrative vocal writing.

After the Bach, the entire ensemble will perform the cheerful and charming Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103, by Brahms. Although composed late in his life, this group of eleven separate songs contains music that is youthfully exuberant and energetic, as well as poignant and expressive, as it depicts love and loss through the language of Hungarian harmonies and dance rhythms. The pianist for this performance is Rhys Burgess.

About the UMD Chamber Singers:
Led by Professor Edward Maclary, the UMD Chamber Singers have achieved international renown and offer a wide array of experiences with music encompassing all styles and eras.

Photo was taken by Alison Harbaugh in 2015.

Add to Calendar 05/16/21 7:30 PM 05/16/21 8:30 PM America/New_York Spring Choral Showcase: UMD Chamber Singers

Watch the archived video for the next two months on Vimeo.

The program features two favorite works by major composers Johann Sebastian Bach and Johannes Brahms. 

To begin, a smaller group of ten singers from the UMD Chamber Singers will perform the chorale motet by Bach, Jesu, meine Freude, BWV 225, with an accompanying ensemble of strings and organ. This large scale motet is symmetrically structured in eleven movements with the central sixth movement fugue acting as the pillar for the entire work. Jesu, meine Freude contains some of Bach’s most musically expressive and rhetorically demonstrative vocal writing.

After the Bach, the entire ensemble will perform the cheerful and charming Zigeunerlieder, Op. 103, by Brahms. Although composed late in his life, this group of eleven separate songs contains music that is youthfully exuberant and energetic, as well as poignant and expressive, as it depicts love and loss through the language of Hungarian harmonies and dance rhythms. The pianist for this performance is Rhys Burgess.

About the UMD Chamber Singers:
Led by Professor Edward Maclary, the UMD Chamber Singers have achieved international renown and offer a wide array of experiences with music encompassing all styles and eras.

Photo was taken by Alison Harbaugh in 2015.

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Cost

Free