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Greenwich Choral Society Concert Set For April 6
"In Praise of Music: Voices of Exuberance" will be held at Greenwich High School.
From The Greenwich Choral Society: The Greenwich Choral Society announces a concert featuring Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 2, The Hymn of Praise along with Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Toward the Unknown Region and Brahms’ How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place to be presented Saturday, April 6th at 4:00 pm at the Greenwich High School Performing Arts Center.
Mendelssohn wrote his Hymn of Praise for the Leipzig festival commemorating the 400th anniversary of Johann Gutenberg’s invention of printing with movable type. The musical influence on Mendelssohn was clearly Beethoven’s mighty Ninth Symphony and – as in Beethoven’s great opus – the Hymn of Praise succeeds in its heartwarming depiction of the journey from worldly darkness to unbridled joy.
Toward the Unknown Region is a remarkable marriage of music and text, combining the unmistakable quality of Vaughan Williams’ inspired music while perfectly expressing the noble, humanistic aspirations of Walt Whitman’s poetry.
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How Lovely Is Thy Dwelling Place is Brahms’ treatment of Psalm 84, a hymn of praise for the place where God lives. It is the fourth and central movement of his German Requiem.
Tickets are $45 and $38, with special prices for students.
Tickets can be ordered online at www.GreenwichChoralSociety.org or by calling 203-622-5136. (Group sales are available by calling the GCS office.)
