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Our 38th Season: New music, Messiah, Mozart, Pärt and more
- November 15, 2009: New World Rhythm American masterworks for chorus and percussion by Lou Harrison, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, Nico Muhly, and the world première of a work by Tarik O’Regan. The Boston Modern Orchestra Project joins us for a FirstWorks Festival performance. (We will also perform the Lou Harrison work November 13 in Jordan Hall, Boston.)
- December 19, 2009: Handel’s Messiah Andrew Clark conducts the Singers, soloists and the Rhode Island Philharmonic in the third annual performance of a new and growing Providence holiday tradition.
- March 6, 2010: Mozart Requiem and more Hear the Mozart in a new context, following Dan Locklair’s Stirring the Silence, Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten, and Britten’s Cantata Misericordium, written for the 100th anniversary of the Red Cross.
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Join us for these other performances:
- December 4, 2009: Brubeck Canticles * Back again by ever-popular demand, Dave Brubeck visits Rhode Island for a performance of his Canticles. The Singers joins the Dave Brubeck Quartet for the performance, presented by Immaculate Conception Church in Cranston.
- May 7 and 8, 2010: Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 * The Singers performs Beethoven’s masterwork in a guest appearance with the Rhode Island Philharmonic.
- June 2010: Tops of Tin Pan Alley at Singers gala It’s music for celebrating a wonderful season and supporting the full range of the Singers’s performance and education program. The Junior Providence Singers will be on hand, among other guests, to help with music by Porter, Berlin, Gershwin, Kern, Sondheim, even Lennon and McCartney.
* Ticket sales for these performances will be managed by the host organization.
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New member auditions scheduled for August
Artistic Director Andrew Clark will hear new-member auditions for the 2009-10 season at two sessions in August: Tuesday, August 11, from 5 to 7 p.m.; and Tuesday, August 18, from 5 to 7 p.m. Auditions for the Providence Singers have been by invitation only since the 2006-07 season. Please visit the auditions page for information about requesting an audition.
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As we all suspected ...
National study: Choral singing improves communities, schools, lives
Choral singing continues to be the most popular form of participation in the performing arts. More than 42.6 million Americans of all ages sing regularly in one or more of the nation’s 270,000 choral organizations — and the benefits of that experience are far-reaching and profound. According to The Chorus Impact Study, conducted by Chorus America and released Tuesday, June 2, 2009, choral singing correlates strongly with:
- Good citizenship: Chorus members are civic leaders, support the arts, take part in government and political affairs, are well-informed and well-read, and are more likely to volunteer in their communities.
- Success in school: Children who sing get significantly better grades, improve their performance in language and math. Children of parents who sing have good memory skills, more effective homework habits, higher levels of creativity.
- Greater involvement: Children in choruses are more likely to participate in sports and other extracurricular activities.
- Better life skills: Parents report that children with choral experience have more advanced social skills, are better team players, are better able to manage their emotions, and have qualities that support learning and development.
The report also warns that the decline of choral opportunities for children is a key area of concern. More than 25 percent of teachers and 20 percent of parents say there are no choral opportunities available. Many children who stop singing stop because their choral programs have been discontinued.
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(pdf) | Read the full report
(pdf) | More about Chorus America
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