[New_csc_newsline] Great performance!

[Nathan Leaf]

Dear Concert Singers – what a joy the concert was last night.
Congratulations to everyone for a lovely and exciting performance. I hope
you had as much fun as I did with that music.



Congratulations also for making it through this strange and challenging
season. Masks, frequently changing rehearsal locations and times, singing
spaced out so far we couldn’t hear each other, people having to miss due to
sickness or exposure, delayed start in the spring and changed concert date.
So many challenges…and yet, we made it! And had two lovely performances to
show for our efforts. I am so very pleased and proud…and impressed with
your dedication. The entire season was a statement of hope for better times
to come.



We are finished rehearsing for the year, as you know. But we do have a
couple things still to which we can look forward. First, Monday, May 16 –
GOODBERRY’s! The fundraiser goes all day, but many of us will be going at
our normal rehearsal time, 7:30. Please join us if you can so that we can
enjoy a bit of social time together before the summer begins.



Second, we are making plans for an exciting and full season next year. Four
concerts and the return of the Cary Big Sing! Our concerts will include:



October 2022: American Soul: Folk songs, Spirituals, and New American Works

Concert Singers presents great American folk songs, hymns, and modern
American works. The centerpiece of the concert will be Jake Runestad’s 2018
work, American Triptych, with texts by Thoreau, Berry, and Muir.



December 2022: Holiday Pops with guest artists



March 2023: Basant Bahar with Hum Sub

A cross-cultural collaboration with Hum Sub, a local organization dedicated
to sharing the cultural and social traditions of India here in the
Triangle. Basant Bahar is is Hum Sub’s annual spring celebration of
classical Indian music and dance. In this collaboration, rescheduled from
March of 2020, CSC will aim to merge our choir into the traditions of
classical Indian art music.



May 2023: Music of Light (with orchestra)

Amy Beach's Canticle of the Sun and Morten Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna
Amy Beach (1867-1944) was the first highly successful American female
composer of large-scale art music and a critical figure in the history of
American music. Her Canticle of the Sun, a 23-minute work for choir and
large orchestra, was premiered in 1928 and has only rarely been performed
since. Our presentation could very well be the first North Carolina
performance. Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna is a modern classic, a favorite of
choirs to perform.



Thanks again for a great year. See you on Monday!

Nathan

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*Nathan Leaf, D.M.A.Director of Choral Activities**Teaching Professor*

*Assistant Head-Music Department   North Carolina State University*
*Artistic Director*
*   Concert Singers of Cary*
*(he/him/his)*




*214 Price Music CenterCampus Box 7311Raleigh, NC 27695*

*Phone:  919.515.8280**music.arts.ncsu.edu <http://music.arts.ncsu.edu>*