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Subscribe to our three-concert series before July 1 and save 33 percent. You’ll have premium seating for - Garden Party
- The Creation
- Fit for a Queen
Our friends at the Philharmonic will also offer Providence Singers subscribers a 15-percent discount on tickets for - Handel’s Messiah*
- Mahler’s Symphony No. 2*
Order your subscriptions online or call the Singers office at 401-751-5700. * Tickets for Messiah and Mahler are available directly from the Philharmonic. November 3–4, 2012: A Pinkham Garden Party
Daniel Pinkham’s comic opera Garden Party is a cheerful retelling of The Fall — Adam, Eve, snake, tree, apple, voice of God — in which the banished Adam and Eve are intrigued by the possibilities of life in a world newly equipped with sin. Other works of Creation round out the party. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012, St. Mary’s Church, Bristol
3:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, Providence
 December 8, 2012: George Frideric Handel’s Messiah
Two and a half centuries after its first performance, Handel’s Messiah easily remains the most frequently performed, most beloved work in the choral canon. The Providence Singers and the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra join forces for a December performance at Veterans Memorial Auditorium. Betsy Burleigh conducts. 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, 2012, The Vets, Providence
 February 9-10, 2013: Franz Joseph Haydn’s Creation
Haydn had spectacular choral triumphs late in his life, none greater than the oratorio The Creation. The Singers and the New Bedford Symphony will perform The Creation in New Bedford and Providence. 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, at Temple Emanu-El in Providence
(Also performed Saturday, Feb. 9, in New Bedford. Information is available from the New Bedford Symphony.)
 April 6-7, 2013: Fit for a Queen
Music was everywhere at Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953: selections from England’s glorious musical past (Handel’s Zadok the Priest has been part of every coronation since George II in 1727) and new works by Herbert Howells, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Healy Willan and others. The Singers will perform music written for Queen Elizabeth at her coronation and during the six decades since, including new music from the recently published Choirbook for the Queen. 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 6, 2013, Sayles Hall, Brown University, Providence
3:30 p.m. Sunday, April 7, 2013, St. Mary’s Church, Bristol
 May 4, 2013: Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 2, the “Resurrection Symphony,” was, with the Eighth Symphony, among Mahler’s most popular and successful works during his lifetime. He was struck by a text he heard at the funeral of the conductor Hans von Bülow: “Auferstehen, ja auferstehen wirst du, mein Staub, nach kurzer Ruhe!” (“You shall arise, my dust, yes you shall arise after a brief rest!”) The Singers will perform as guest artists with the Rhode Island Philharmonic. 8 p.m. Saturday, May 4 The Vets, Providence
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