[csc_newsline] CSC 2011-2012 Season

Mon Jul 25 00:17:13 EDT 2011

Dear Singers,

I hope that you are all having a great and restful summer and are finding
ways to be the heat. I’m writing to share exciting news about our 21st
season of concerts and our move to the new Cary Arts Center. There is a
great deal of information to communicate. I feel that this will best be
accomplished by sending a series of emails so look for additional
communications beyond this one. Please take the time to read them and keep
them in a folder for future reference. 

I have pasted in below the dates and narrative of our 2011-2012 season and
have attached it as well for those who do not have their email set to
receive formatted text. I have also attached a copy of the current schedule.
Unlike last season, it is highly unlikely that any of these dates will
change though you will see that there are still some locations that are
still to be finalized that will be reflected in future publications.

I am very excited about this season’s plans! The following are answers to
questions that I know some of you will have.

·         Holiday Pops with the NC Symphony is likely one of the most
important concert opportunities in our history as we will be working under
Music Director Grant Llewellyn for the first time. If we meet or exceed his
expectations it may create some new opportunities for us. If we do not, we
could be dropped from future programming. I have no doubts that we can make
a great impression IF we have the full core of our singers base, especially
in the men’s sections. Grant has also asked us to supply a small chorus for
part of the program, something that we have never had the opportunity to do.
The time commitment is Friday and Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend. WE NEED
ALL HANDS ON DECK!

·         All concerts are free standing schedules EXCEPT Holiday Pops and
Heart of Cary Holidays which are linked together. If you need to miss the
Heart of Cary Holidays but can sing the Holiday Pops we can accommodate that
but if you cannot sing Holiday Pops we will ask you to rejoin us after the
first of the year.

On a final note, I want to tell you that our move to the Cary Arts Center
for rehearsals and performances will be a huge opportunity for us. After 20
years, we finally have a home and it fine one! The wait was worth it! We are
one of four resident performing arts groups which gives us base for business
operations and storage as well as priority booking. Ingrid and I attended
two of the outstanding concerts by The Brussels’ Chamber Orchestra and were
very impressed with the theater. It is acoustically neutral which is ideal
for a variety of programming. It is a beautiful and intimate space that
seats around 400. The stage can accommodate the Symphonic Choir if we
perform without significant instrumental forces. It can accommodate the
Chorale with Chamber Orchestra, similar to the space at the Carolina
Theater. We will have a rehearsal space that is a bit smaller than Herb
Young Room A but has a high ceiling and curtains that can be opened or
closed to change acoustics in rehearsal. The overall facility is impressive
in its plan and accommodation of all the art forms. Other organizations have
discovered that attendance for concerts increases when performances are held
in a facility that is inviting and friendly. 

Watch for my next email on the subject of membership!

The Concert Singers of Cary

2011-2012 Concert Season

Sacred Bridges: The Rhythm of the World’s Religions

Koka Booth Amphitheater 

Saturday, October 8th  2011

5:30 p.m. 

The Concert Singers of Cary present a special program of multicultural
religious music as part of the all day "Cary Eid Festival", celebrating
Muslim Eid. The Festival’s Mission Statement: “Bridging the Communities of
various faiths, beliefs, and practices through education and festivities by
celebrating the Eid Festival as an American Holiday Event”.

The Concert Singers of Cary Symphonic Choir

Lawrence Speakman conducting 

Italian Vespers

Cary Arts Center 

Friday, October 21st 2011

8:00 p.m. $15, Children under 12 free

Thirty seven years before the debut of Messiah, the brash twenty year old
Georg Frederic Handel was studying the new concertato style in Italy, then
the virtuosic center of the Western world. The result was the musically
pyrotechnic Dixit Dominus (Psalm 110) designed to flaunt his ability to
write elaborate and technically challenging music for both vocal and
instrumental performers. Miserere (Psalm 51) by Francesco Scarlatti is also
featured as is J.S. Bach’s motet Singet dem Herr nein neues Lied (BWV225)..
The Concert Singers of Cary Chamber Choir and the all professional Cary
Choral Artists will be joined by an orchestra of Baroque Period instruments
and professional soloists. 

The Concert Singers of Cary Chamber Choir

Cary Choral Artists

Baroque Period String Ensemble  

Lawrence Speakman conducting 

Holiday Pops with The North Carolina Symphony

Meymandi Hall, Raleigh 

Friday, November 25th 

8:00 p.m. 

Saturday, November 26th 

3:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. 

Come home for the holidays as Grant Llewellyn and your Symphony debut a new,
heartfelt work by North Carolina singer-songwriter Laurelyn Dossett. But
that’s not all! We put a distinctly Carolina stamp on your holiday favorites
with the help of two Grammy winners—vocalist Rhiannon Giddens Laffan and
mandolin virtuoso Mike Compton—along with banjo and guitar wizard Joe
Newberry and the choral flair of the Concert Singers of Cary. 

The Concert Singers of Cary – All Adult Choirs

The North Carolina Symphony 

Grant Llewellyn conducting

Heart of Cary Holidays

Cary Arts Center

Saturday, December 10th 

7:00 p.m. $15, Children under 12 free

Join The Concert Singers of Cary adult and children’s choirs as we celebrate
the Holiday season in the Heart of Cary in the new Cary Community Arts
Center. Music will include traditional favorites and contemporary
selections. Bring the whole family! 

Concert Singers of Cary Symphonic Choir

Cary Children’s Concert Choir

Cary Youth Chorale

Lawrence Speakman and Robert Thomason conducting 

Heart Renderings

Cary Arts Center 

Friday February 17th 

8:00 p.m.  

Bring the love of your life to a concert with the all professional Cary
Choral Artists as they present an evening of music appropriate to the season
of love and all of its complexities! The program will feature entertaining
selections of music from Renaissance to Jazz that share the timeless theme
of loves gone right and love’s gone wrong.  Featured works are Brahms
Liebeslieder Waltz’s and Stephen Paulus’ Personals, setting four personal
ads from The New York Village Voice to Music. 

Cary Choral Artists  

Lawrence Speakman conducting 

Beethoven: Mass in C

Carolina Theater 

Sunday, March 18th  

3:00 p.m.

To Beethoven, this Mass was a special work. “I believe I have treated the
text as it has seldom been treated.” The Mass in C, first performed in 1807
is Beethoven’s lone contribution to the series of masses written for Prince
Esterházy by Josef Haydn and Johann Hummel, commissioned as concert works
each year for performance on the Sunday following his wife’s name-day. 

Concert Singers of Cary Chorale

The Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle

Lawrence Speakman conducting

Earthsongs

Cary Arts Center 

Friday May 11th 

8:00 p.m. $15, Children under 12 free

The Concert Singers of Cary present an evening celebration of World Music
and culture that includes short works from every continent of the world.
Selections will include vocal music from African, African American, India,
American Indian, Latin American, South American, Chinese, Japanese, Celtic,
and Slavic traditions along with selected instruments of those traditions. 

Concert Singers of Cary Symphonic Choir

Concert Singers of Cary Chamber Choir

Lawrence Speakman – conducting 

Lawrence Speakman

Artistic Director and Conductor

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The Concert Singers of Cary

www.concertsingers.org

www.speakmanvocalarts.com

919-249-6421

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