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Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club to Sing Bach Piece in Historic Performance
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This “epic, heartfelt oratorio” is considered by many musicologists and performers as the single greatest major work in the western canon.
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Baptist Church Hosts Ithaca Gay Men’s Chorus
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Singing for a crowd of more than 50 people on Sunday at the First Baptist Church of Ithaca, the Ithaca Gay Men’s Chorus showed how it has become a symbol of Ithaca for many of its patrons.
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Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club Perform in Mexico January
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The groups performed “Cantares” — a piece by Cornell Prof. Roberto Sierra that the groups premiered at Carnegie Hall last April — with the Xalapa Symphony Orchestra at Sala De Conciertos Tlaqná, a concert venue in Xalapa.
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A Critical Mass
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In order to portray a hope-filled celebration of faith that doesn’t seem hopeless naïve, Bernstein’s Mass confronts the social upheavals and secular pluralism that have torn apart established beliefs. Now playing at the Schwartz Center through April 26, it is a deliberately unwieldy hybrid, intermingling diverse musical and theater traditions to interrogate each other. Originally commissioned for the inauguration of the Kennedy Center in 1971, the demands of its massive cast — which includes a chorus of over a hundred student singers as well as a children’s choir, dance troupe, pit orchestra and several soloists — have prevented it from being widely staged as it was conceived, as a “theater piece for singers, players, and dancers.”