2006 - 2007 Season
The Pro Arte Singers and
Music Director Arthur
Sjögren will celebrate their 34th season with four concerts of
great
music.
Highlights of the 2006-2007
season include the premier of a new work by Jaakko
Mäntyjärvi commissioned by the Pro Arte Singers,
Scandanavian maasters of the 19th and 20th centuries, Heinrich
Schütz's Magnificat,
Brahms Quartets,
Mendelssohn Lieder,
Monteverdi's poignant Lagrime
d'Amante, and Handel's vibrant Dixit Dominus.
Artistic Director
Sjögren and a small group of
professional singers who shared his dream of performing the
world’s
finest choral music formed the Pro Arte Singers in 1973. Each
year since, they have grown in artistic achievement and critical
acclaim through their annual concert series, professional recordings,
appearances around the state in classical concert series, and the
regular commission of new works by rising American composers.
Today they continue to be distinguished as the only fully professional
chorus in the Fairfield/ Westchester area.
In 1994 the Pro Arte
Singers made a major
commitment to an ever-expanding repertoire with the formation of the
24-voice Pro Arte Festival Chorus, a group of experienced volunteers
who complement the Pro Arte Singers to perform some of the larger
choral works. They will appear together in two concerts this season.
Saturday, October 21, 2006 at the Bedford Presbyterian Church, Village Green, Bedford, NY
Sunday, October 22, 2006,
at the Presbyterian Church of New Canaan, CT. |
This Pro Arte Singers and Festival Chorus
program concert
will feature Scandanavian Masters of the 19th and 20th Centuries, and
will include Trees by Lars Johan Werle, Gustav Mahler's Ich bin der Welt,
and Johannes Brahms Quartette
opus 64. We will also be performing Negro
Spirituals from A
Child of our Time by Michael Tippett. |
Sunday, December 10, 2006,
At the Presbyterian Church of New Canaan, CT.
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Our traditional
candlelight Christmas
concert will include Heinrich Schütz's Magnificat, Pierre
Villette's 20th Century Carols, a World Premiere commissioned by the
Pro Arte Singers from Jaakko Mäntyjärvi, Herbert
Howells' Magnificat for
St. Paul's Cathedral. We will include our
Traditional Candlelight procession and have carols both old and new. |
Sunday, February 25, 2007,
At the First Presbyterian Church, 1101
Bedford
Street in Stamford
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The Pro Arte Male
Chorus will perform
Felix Mendelssohn's Vier Lieder opus 75, Francis Poulenc's Laus Regi, Darius Milhaud's Psalm 121, Franz von Suppe's Missa Dalmatica, and opera choruses for men's voices with a guest Mezzo soloist.
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Sunday, April 22, 2007,
At the First Presbyterian Church, 1101
Bedford
Street in Stamford
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The final concert of
the season,
combining the Pro Arte
Singers with our Festival Chorus, will feature Claudio Monteverdi's Lagrime d'Amante, Handel's Dixit Dominus, and choral works by Brahms and Schubert. |
Series subscriptions for
the four concerts are
$90, or $65 for seniors and students; single concert tickets are $25
($30 for the December concert), or $20 for seniors and students.
Subscriptions include a ticket which is good at either the
Bedford or New Caanan venue for the October concert.
On Saturday, January 20,
2007, at 5 p.m. the
Board
and Friends of the Pro Arte Singers will again stage a Benefit Dinner,
Musical Revue and Benefit Auction, at the Carriage Barn &
Powerhouse Theater, Waveny Park, New Canaan. Program details are available on our benefit page.
The Pro Arte Singers are a
non-profit
ensemble, supported in part by private contributions and public grants
including from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and the Stamford
Cultural Development Corporation. For series subscriptions or
more information call (203) 322-5970, write the Pro Arte Singers, P.O.
Box 4251, Stamford, CT 06907-0251, or visit our
subscription page.
©2006 Pro Arte Singers. All
rights reserved.
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