“The Providence Singers ... opening entrance in the final movement was breathtaking” Channing Gray Providence Journal 6 May 2013 (Mahler Symphony No. 2) 
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The 2011-12 Concert Season |
Betsy Burleigh became the Providence Singers’ fifth artistic director at the start of the season, which featured collaborative performances of Benjamin Britten’s massive War Requiem in Providence and Boston.
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Saturday, October 29, 2011, at St. Joseph’s Church, Providence
Sunday, October 30, 2011, at Immaculate Conception Church, Cranston,
The Choral New Yorker | Stravinsky Mass
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The Providence Singers
Betsy Burleigh, Artistic Director
The Junior Providence Singers
T.J. Harper Music Director
Betsy Burleigh, conducting |
Guillaume Dufay |
Gloria |
Giovanni Gabrieli |
Jubilate Deo |
Igor Stravinsky |
Mass |
Giovanni Gabrieli |
Plaudite |
Chen Yi (arr.) |
Fengyang Song
The Junior Providence Singers |
John Rutter (arr.) |
Black Sheep
The Junior Providence Singers |
Eric Whitacre |
little man in a hurry
A Chorus America commission |
Peter Schickele |
Three Choruses from e.e. cummings
dominic has
dim / l(a
maggie and milly and molly and may |
Irving Fine |
The Choral New Yorker
Prologue: Hen Party, for full chorus
Scherzando: Caroline Million, for women’s chorus
Concertante: Pianola d’Amore, for men’s chorus
Epilogue: Design for October, for full chorus |
December 10, 2011, at the Vets, Providence
Messiah
The Providence Singers
Betsy Burleigh, Artistic Director
The Rhode Island Philharmonic
Larry Rachleff, Music Director
Betsy Burleigh, conducting |
George Frederic Handel |
Messiah |
Saturday, March 3, 2012, at Cathedral of the Holy Cross, Boston
Sunday, March 4, 2012, at the Cathedral of SS. Peter and Paul, Providence
Britten: War Requiem
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The Providence Singers
Betsy Burleigh, Artistic Director
Chorus Pro Musica
Betsy Burleigh, Music Director
Boston Children’s Chorus
Anthony Trecek-King, Artistic Director
Sarah Pelletier, Soprano; Frank Kelley, Tenor; Sumner Thompson, Baritone
The New England Philharmonic
Richard Pittman, Music Director, conducting |
Benjamin Britten |
War Requiem |
Though he lived only 25 years, Wilfred Edward Salter Owen (March 18, 1893 – November 4, 1918) was among the greatest of Britain’s World War I poets. His poetry, reflecting two tours of active service in the war, was stark, descriptive, and faithfully grim for the time, in contrast to more common themes of patriotism, bravery, and military honor. Britten used nine of Owens’ poems in his six-movement War Requiem, interspersed throughout the Latin Missa pro Defunctis. |
May 5, 2012, at the Vets, Providence
Brahms Requiem
The Providence Singers
Betsy Burleigh, Artistic Director
The Rhode Island Philharmonic
Larry Rachleff, Music Director, conducting |
Johannes Brahms |
Ein Deutsches Requiem |
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