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Thu, Nov 10, 2011

On Sunday, Nov. 20 at 3:30 p.m. the Colgate Concert Choir and Women's Ensemble will present a concert of choral music under the direction of James D. Niblock. 

The concert, titled The Name Game 2.0 will revisit a past theme in which all of the selections on the program name famous or fictional characters. 

Featured names are drawn from folk tunes such as the Venezuelan merengue, Maria Pancha, or Stephen Foster's tale of the American sweetheart, Nelly Bly. Biblical and mythical figures such as Moses, Jesus, and Orpheus are represented respectively in a Sephardic song of the Spanish Jews, a motet by Franz Liszt, and a lovely Vaughan Williams setting of Shakespeare. Another Shakespearean moment is recounted in the Witches Chorus that opens Giuseppe Verdi's opera Macbeth.  Finally, historical figures will be given their due through imaginative works about Nancy Hanks, mother to Abraham Lincoln, and Queen Jane Seymour, the third wife of King Henry VIII. 

The concert will also feature Benjamin Britten's Rejoice in the Lamb.   

The cantata will include performances by student soloists, and Glenn Kime will provide the organ accompaniment.

Admission is free and open to the public. 

Source: Colgate

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