End of Season Luncheon
The Matthews House in Cary
$25/person.
May 20th from 1:30 til ~3:30pm rain or shine.

Of course, this event is open to all members, whether they are currently singing or not.

We have to finalize business with Matthews House, so follow this link to paypal: http://tinyurl.com/csc-luncheon

Hope to see you there!

Neapolitan Nights

An evening of Dinner and Song

May 11, 2012 8:00pm
Cary Arts Center [map & directions]
101 Dry Avenue, Cary, NC
(919) 469-4069

Tickets available here

$15.00 Adults
$5.00 Students

Download and print our flyer

The Concert Singers of Cary will conclude their 2011-2012 concert series with the presentation of an evening of World Music on May 11th at 8:00 PM at the Cary Arts Center. Under the direction of Lawrence Speakman, The Concert Singers are in their 21st season of performances and their first as a resident performing organization at The Cary Arts Center.

The World Music Concert is entitled Earthsongs, referring to music native to cultures from around the globe. It includes music from Finland, China, India, Brazil, Argentina, Republic of Georgia and Africa. Music from the Buddhist and Jewish traditions are included as well as a choral setting of Primavera Porteña by Astor Piazzolla. Music from the United States is represented by African American Spirituals such as Didn’t My Lord Deliver Daniel and Motherless Child; a Gospel selection called Walk Together Children and a segment of songs from Appalachia that includes the Blue Grass song Cluck Ol’ Hen, Shenandoah and the Craig Hella Johnson arrangement of the Dolly Parton melody Light of a Clear Blue Morning. The music will be accompanied by a group of string instruments and percussion.

Founded in 1991, The Concert Singers of Cary is a Volunteer Choral Organization that provides a professional experience for musicians and audiences alike. For twenty one years the organization has been challenging assumptions of what a vocational performing organization can accomplish. Under the leadership of co-founder, conductor and Artistic Director Lawrence Speakman, the Concert Singers of Cary operates a 130 voice Symphonic Chorus, a Vocal Chamber Ensemble and two youth choirs. Known for their innovative programming, The Concert Singers perform music from diverse traditions as well as new and ground breaking works such as Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light, composed in 1995 and performed simultaneously with the 1928 silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc, and William Grant Still’s And They Lynched Him on a Tree, composed in 1939.

Tickets are $15 for adults and $5.00 for children 12 and under. Tickets to the performance are available at the Cary Arts Center box office, either in-person 101 Dry Avenue, Cary, NC 27513, or online here, through our partner etix, or at the door.

Update: Don also offers this MIDI, for Intrigue. thanks, Don!
Intrigue

Anvilstudio is a free MIDI player that allows you to work with the different MIDI channels, and is available here: http://anvilstudio.com

For singers who need to pay dues, and would like to do so using PayPal:

Saturday – rehearsal at Ravenscroft School
• location: Ravenscroft School, Fine Arts Center, 7409 Falls of Neuse Rd, Raleigh, NC 27615. (map & directions) We will be rehearsing in the black box theater.
• time: rehearsal will start promptly at 2:30 and will be over by 5:00
• bring water; make sure to dress comfortably – especially shoes!

Sunday – rehearsal and performance

• location: The Carolina Theatre, 309 West Morgan Street, Durham, North Carolina 27701 (map & directions)
• parking: in the parking deck opposite the Carolina Theatre – parking is free on Sundays
• time: arrive promptly at 11:15
• enter the building at the back stage door; there will be signs directing you where to go from there.
• rehearsal dress: comfortable!
• concert dress: Formal Black: men=tuxedos, women=refer to the website; make sure you are wearing dark hose.
• bring black folders; water for off stage only.
• rehearsal ends at 1:00
• be back at the Theatre in concert dress no later than 2:30
• Performance begins at 3:00
• the music is yours to keep at the end of the concert.
After the performance

Everyone is encouraged by The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle to come and mingle with audience and orchestra members at the Washington Duke Inn for a $25/person buffet. This is a pay-at-the-door, no reservations needed event.

See you at rehearsal!

Ingrid Speakman
Membership Chair, The Concert Singers of Cary

Beethoven Mass in C with the
Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle
Carolina Theater, Durham
Sunday, March 18, 2012 3:00 p.m.

The Concert Singers of Cary – Chorale
The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle
Lawrence Speakman, conducting.

http://www.chamberorchestraofthetriangle.org
(919) 360-3382

To Beethoven, this Mass was a special work. “I believe I have treated the text as it has seldom been treated.” The Mass in C, first performed in 1807, is Beethoven’s lone contribution to the series of masses written for Prince Esterházy by Josef Haydn and Johann Hummel, commissioned as concert works each year for performance on the Sunday following his wife’s name-day.

Holiday Pops with The North Carolina Symphony
Meymandi Hall, Raleigh
Friday, November 25th 8:00 p.m.
Saturday, November 26th 3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m.
http://www.ncsymphony.org/events (919) 733.2750 ext. 401

The Concert Singers of Cary – All Adult Choirs
The North Carolina Symphony
Grant Llewellyn – conducting

Come home for the holidays as Grant Llewellyn and your Symphony debut a new, heartfelt work by North Carolina singer-songwriter Laurelyn Dossett. But that’s not all! We put a distinctly Carolina stamp on your holiday favorites with the help of two Grammy winners—vocalist Rhiannon Giddens Laffan and mandolin virtuoso Mike Compton—along with banjo and guitar wizard Joe Newberry and the choral flair of the Concert Singers of Cary.

Italian Vespers
Cary Arts Center
Friday, October 21st 2011
8:00 p.m. $15, Students $10

Concert Singers of Cary Chamber Choir
Cary Choral Artists
Baroque Period String Ensemble
Lawrence Speakman – conducting

Thirty seven years before the debut of Messiah, the brash twenty year old Georg Frederic Handel was studying the new concertato style in Italy, then the virtuosic center of the Western world. The result was the musically pyrotechnic Dixit Dominus (Psalm 110) designed to flaunt his ability to write elaborate and technically challenging music for both vocal and instrumental performers. Miserere (Psalm 51) by Francesco Scarlatti is also featured as is J.S. Bach’s motet Singet dem Herr nein neues Lied (BWV225).. The Concert Singers of Cary Chamber Choir and the all professional Cary Choral Artists will be joined by an orchestra of Baroque Period instruments and professional soloists.