2010 East Coast Choir Tour

In January of 2010 the Earlham College Concert Choir will visit five cities on their biennial East Coast Tour.

Alumni, parents and friends have the opportunity to hear this acclaimed ensemble present another of their trademark concerts of engaging music ranging from the traditional to the contemporary. This is the first tour conducted by Earlham's new Choral Director, Bill Culverhouse.

Earlham College Concert Choir

The program opens with Dan Graves' celebrated setting of the traditional Quaker hymn, How Can I Keep from Singing? Both Concert Choir and Madrigal Singers are performing in the tour concerts. The Madrigal Singers offer a collection of Renaissance music, including some English and Italian madrigals as well as two motets, and two pieces by contemporary American composers.

The Concert Choir's selections include Forrest Tobey's Keeping Still, a setting of a poem by Pablo Neruda written especially for the Concert Choir in October of 2008, as well as three excerpts from Culverhouse's Requiem. For contrast, they offer two choral pieces in Arabic and two choral pieces from Africa in recognition of Earlham's mission of peace and transformation.

The centerpiece of this year's tour program is Trade Winds, a piece for mixed chorus and percussion ensemble commissioned this past year specifically for the Earlham Concert Choir and Rhythm Project. Composer David Arbury has called upon his longtime friend Lisa Pegram '97 to create a stirring text about movement, inspiration, connections and the four elements. The piece celebrates our hearts, our spirits, our common humanity and being open to that which moves us and that which moves between us.

2010 East Coast Choir Tour Schedule

(All concerts begin at 7:30 p.m. and are free and open to the public.)

Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

First Unitarian Church of Pittsburgh
605 Morewood Avenue
Sponsored by Earlham College Alumni from the Pittsburgh Area

For more information,
contact Jennifer Halperin at 412/621-8008 x.103
or jbhalperin@yahoo.com

Thursday, January 7, 2010
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Friends Meeting at Cambridge
5 Longfellow Park
Reception following concert
Sponsored by the Earlham Alumni Association of Boston/New England

For more information,
contact John Moran '89 at 617/421-8615
or john.moran@libertymutual.com

Friday, January 8, 2010
New York City, New York

The Church of St. Luke's in the Field
487 Hudson Street
Sponsored by the Earlham Alumni Association of New York

For more information,
contact Jane Wolff Codding '87 at 715/855-8714
or jane.codding@mindspring.com

Saturday, January 9, 2010
Newton, Pennsylvania

George School
1690 Newton Langhorne Road
Sponsored by the Earlham Alumni Association of Philadelphia

For more information,
contact Karen Hallowell at 215/579-6620 or
KSH@georgeschool.org

Sunday, January 10, 2010
Washington, D.C.

Cathedral of Saint Matthew the Apostle
1725 Rhode Island Avenue NW
Sponsored by the Earlham College Alumni Association of Washington, D.C./Baltimore

For more information, contact either
Jenny Nordstrom '89 at 202/547-3695 or jennynordstrom@mindspring.com