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Our upcoming concert is on Saturday, May 12, 2012 at 8pm in Kresge Auditorium.

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Program:

• Virgil Thomson
• Dance in Praise
• Southern Hymns
• How Bright is the Day!
• Mississippi (When Gabriel's Awful Trump Shall Sound)
• Death of General Washington (What Solemn Sounds the Ear Invade?)
• Convention (How Firm a Foundation)
• Tiger! Tiger! (For Men's Chorus)
• Charles Fussell
• From A Pioneer Songbook
• Spanish Johnny (A Ballad)
• Few Days (From 'Three Hymns')
• All The Pretty Little Horses (A Ballad)
• Billy The Kid (A Ballad)
• The Gift
• Infinite Fraternity
• Mists
• March
• Postscript
• October-November

A message about the program from our director:

Our program will feature the music of American composers Virgil Thomson and Charles Fussell, both with Boston connections.

Virgil Thomson (1896-1989) studied composition at Harvard and in Paris where he studied with Nadia Boulanger (famous French composition teacher... many famous American composers went to study with her including Aaron Copland and Leonard Bernstein) and hung out with cool people like French poet, novelist, and artist Jean Cocteau, American writer, poet, and art collector Gertrude Stein, AND my hero Igor Stravinsky!! Read more about Virgil Thomson here.

Eastman School of Music-trained composer Charles Fussell was Virgil Thomson's assistant and close friend when both were living in New York City...and...Charles was one of my composition teachers when I was a grad student at Boston University! Charles is now Professor of Composition at Rutgers University. Charles has agreed to come and work with us on his music and will give a pre-concert lecture on the music of Virgil Thomson as well as his own music. Read more about Charles here.

Additional Information:
Rehearsal schedule: MW 7-9:30, 4-270
For our Spring 2012 rehearsal schedule, please see the rehearsals page.
Recordings of the Fussell selections can be found here.