2003-2004 Season
Pro Arte Singers had a fantastic
31st season of professional choral concerts, bringing the greatest
music in definitive performances to audiences in Fairfield County.
Sunday,
October 26, 2003, 3:30 PM at St. John the Evangelist Catholic
Church
279 Atlantic St., Stamford.
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The Pro Arte
Singers were joined by the Pro Arte Festival Chorus and Orchestra in
performing motets for double chorus & double orchestra by Antonio
Vivaldi, Franz Joseph Haydn’s Mass in Time of War (Paukenmesse), Franz
Biebl’s Ave Maria (for male chorus), and other works.
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Sunday,
December 14, 2003, 3:30 PM
at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church
279 Atlantic St., Stamford.
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7:00 PM at Christ & Holy
Trinity Church, 55 Myrtle Ave., Westport.
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Our
Traditional Candlelight Christmas Concert, featuring the Pro Arte
Singers with strings and organ. Featured works included Marc-Antoine
Charpentier’s Christmas Cantata, J.S. Bach’s Lobet den Herrn, and, as
every year, a candlelight procession and carols old and new.
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Sunday,
February 8, 2004, 3:30 PM, at Christ Church, 254 East Putnam
Ave. (Rt.1), Greenwich.
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The Pro Arte
Male Chorus, the only professional male chorus in the entire New York
metropolitan region, presented motets by Franz Liszt, The Prayers of
St. Francis by Francis Poulenc, Norwegian folk songs by Edvard Grieg,
and American folk songs.
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Sunday,
May 2, 2004, 3:30 PM, at the First Presbyterian Church, 1101
Bedford, Stamford.
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The Pro Arte
Singers, joined by the Pro Arte Festival Chorus, presented Ave Maria
and Kyrie by Felix Mendelssohn, Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda by
Gustav Holst (performed with harp), Three Lullabies by Henryk Gorecki,
and works by Percy Granger and Duke Ellington.
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Again this year, we recorded all
our concerts and made CDs available, delivered about two weeks after
the performance. This year, we offered a “CD subscription:” sign up to
get CDs of all the concerts at a discount. CDs of all concerts from
December 2001 forward are still available; contact us for details.
We were delighted to be singing
in a new venue for the first two concerts of the season: St. John the
Evangelist Catholic Church, next door to the Rich Forum in downtown
Stamford (at the corner of Atlantic and Bell Streets). The male chorus
concert was held at Christ Church in Greenwich for its third
consecutive year, while the spring concert returned to the familiar
“Fish Church,” the architecturally and acoustically striking First
Presbyterian Church of Stamford.
Please invite your friends to
discover
the joy of choral singing at its finest Contact us to purchase a
CD to share with them, or invite them to upcoming concerts. We look
forward to seeing you
at next year's events.
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