East Coast Concert Choir Tour 2008

In January 2008, the Earlham College Concert Choir will visit five cities on their biennial East Coast Tour.

Alumni, parents and friends will have the opportunity to hear this acclaimed ensemble present another of their trademark concerts of engaging music ranging from traditional to contemporary. After 24 years, this will be the final tour by the Concert Choir with Dan Graves conducting.

• Concert Choir Prepares for Conductor's Final Tour

Earlham College Concert Choir

Opening with Jean Belmont's lush setting of If Music Be the Food of Love, the Concert Choir will then continue with two short contemporary pieces by Miskinis and Lange before concluding the first set with the powerfully moving Horizons by Peter Louis Van Dijk.

The Madrigal Singers will then offer vocal chamber music from the 16th through 20th centuries. John Farmer's ever-popular Fair Phyllis I Saw Sitting All Alone will be followed by Monteverdi's atmospherically flowing Ecco Mormorar l'Onde. A rarely performed part song by Haydn, Die Warnung, will bridge the chronological gap to the twentieth century represented by selections by Vaughan Williams and Menotti. The set will conclude with the poignant Renaissance piece, O Musika, by Peuerl.

In keeping with Earlham's continuing commitment to international education and the choir's dedication to diverse repertoire, the Concert Choir's final set will present works from Kenya, Brazil, New Zealand, Sweden, Cuba and Japan as well as the United States. The program will conclude with the traditional Quaker hymn How Can I Keep from Singing?

2008 Concert Choir East Coast Tour Schedule
(All concerts are free and open to the public)

Friday, January 4, 2008
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh
605 Morewood Avenue
7:30 p.m.
Reception following concert — Potluck at 6:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Earlham College Alumni from the Pittsburgh Area

For more information,
contact Kathryn Hens-Greco at kathrynhensgreco@gmail.com or
Jennifer Halperin at jbhalperin@yahoo.com

Saturday, January 5, 2008
Washington, D.C.

Lutheran Church of the Reformation
212 East Capitol Street, NE
7:30 p.m.
Reception following concert
Sponsored by the Earlham Alumni Association of Washington, D.C./Baltimore

For more information,
contact Sarah Baron '89 at 202/745-2686
or baronfajardo@verizon.net

Sunday, January 6, 2008
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Germantown Friends School
Germantown Monthly Meetinghouse
31 West Coulter Street
7:30 p.m.
Reception following concert
Sponsored by the Earlham Alumni Association of Philadelphia

For more information,
contact Claire Taylor '93 at 610/666-2816
or artsymom@ptd.net

Monday, January 7, 2008
New York City, New York

Community Church of New York
40 East 35th Street
7:30 p.m.
Reception following concert
Sponsored by the Earlham Alumni Association of New York

For more information,
contact Jane Wolff Codding '87 at 917/593-1334 or
jane.codding@mindspring.com

Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Friends Meeting at Cambridge
5 Longfellow Park
7:30 p.m.
Reception following concert
Sponsored by the Earlham College Alumni Association of Boston/New England

For more information, contact either
George E. Clark '88 at 978/897-0855 or clageog@yahoo.com or
John Moran '89 at 617/421-8615 or jfmoran02@msn.com