BRATTLEBORO — The Brattleboro Union High School Music Department presents a choral concert, “Noteworthy,” on Thursday, March 28, at 7 p.m., in the high school auditorium.
No admission will be charged for this event, and the public is invited to attend.
“Noteworthy” is a play on words, as each piece selected for this concert contains lyrics of significance. The ensembles have analyzed the poetry, researched its historical significance, and discussed their personal connections to the text of each piece.
Some of this background and discovery will be shared before each piece, as well as a recitation of the text.
The concert will open with the Madrigals singing the Vermont premiere of In Those Years, No One Slept, the 2018 Uncommon Music Festival Composer Competition winner by Rich Campbell, with text by Romanian-American poet Claudia Serea.
Madrigals will continue with Kenny Potter's unique take on Emily Dickinson's poem Hope is the Thing with Feathers, and will conclude with Sara Teasdale's There Will Be Rest set by composer Frank Ticheli.
The concert will conclude with the BUHS Chorus. Their program will open with Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, using text from Emma Lazarus's The New Colossus set by Irving Berlin for the 1949 musical Miss Liberty.
The program will continue with a setting of the Lobster Quadrille by Irving Fine, using lyrics from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
Next, the chorus will perform Who Will Fight No More Forever? by Andrea Klouse. This text comes from the surrender speech of Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce in 1877. The concert will close with a setting of William Ernest Henley's Invictus by Joshua Rist. Sarah Gallagher will accompany the chorus on cello for this piece.
Patty Meyer will accompany the chorus. Elyse Wadsworth directs both ensembles. For more information, contact 802-451-3516.