Concert Singers Holiday Concerts

Holiday Concerts

The Concert Singers announce their thirty-fourth pair of holiday
concerts.  The first, more serious, half
of each concert will present the melodious Mass in A Major by French
composer Cesar Franck.  This work
contains the well-known tenor/harp solo “Panis Angelicus.” The chorus will be
accompanied by professional Boston area soloists, and a chamber ensemble of
eight instrumentalists, featuring harpist Judith Ross, formerly of Marblehead.   The second half of each concert is “POPS
style,” featuring arrangements of popular Christmas and Hanukah selections and
audience sing-along.  This will include a
100th birthday tribute to British composer Benjamin Britten, Bach's
“Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring,” “O Holy Night” sung by Swampscott tenor Mark Nemeskal,
and Ralph Vaughan Williams' “Fantasia on Christmas Carols.”

The first performance is on Friday evening,
December 6th, 8:00 pm, at the Unitarian-Universalist Church, 101 Forest Avenue,
Swampscott, MA.  The second concert will
be held Sunday afternoon, December 8th, 2:30 pm, at Sacred Heart Roman Catholic
Church, 571 Boston Street, West Lynn, MA. 
These concerts are free of charge and both venues are
handicap-accessible. 

William C. Sano of Salem has been music
director of the Concert Singers for twenty-seven years.  He is a graduate of the New England
Conservatory of Music, teaches for the Salem State Explorers LLI, is an active
church choir organist and choirmaster and is a former music supervisor in the
Marblehead Public Schools.  The accompanist
of the Concert Singers is Margaret J. Dee, a charter member of the Concert
Singers, former music teacher in Danvers Public Schools, and currently organist
of Our Lady Church in Lynnfield.  The
fifty-plus chorus members hail from seventeen cities and towns north of Boston,
as well as two members from Pembroke and Plymouth on the South Shore, and two
from New Hampshire!  These concerts are
funded in part by LynnArts, Inc., and the Eastern Bank Charitable Foundation.

For further information please call Margaret
Oleson at 781-639-4558 or Bill Sano at 978-744-4787.