Centenary offers Camerata Spring Concert
Centenary College’s Hurley School of Music will perform its Camerata Spring Concert on Tuesday, April 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Anderson Auditorium.
The theme is “Journeys,” and the program include folk-like music with an interesting textural variety, and this concert is focused on choral and vocal performances. Folk songs and folk song elements will be the foundation for this event.
The core of the program features Randall Thompson's famed "Frostiana: Seven Country Songs," a choral cycle on the poetry of Robert Frost. Camerata will be joined by the tenor-bass sections of the Centenary Choir. The work has individual movements for male and female chorus as well as mixed-chorus. Thompson's organization of Frost's poetry takes the listener on a journey from the famous “The Road Not Taken” through the more whimsical aspects of country life and concludes with Frost’s more aspirational “Choose Something Like a Star.”
During the course of the year, Camerata has focused on chamber literature for sopranos and altos, and will partially do so again with a mixture of Stephen Hatfield folk-song and American Christian folk-inspired arrangements.
“Journeys” will be directed by Dr. David Hobson and accompanied by Dr. Gay Grosz. It is free and open to the public.