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All Music Service
The All Music Service on April 29 will feature a combined community chorus made up of the Fellowship Choir, the WFU Baptist Medical Center Chorale and the Forsyth Country Day School Concert Choir. Accompanying the choir will be the Winston-Salem Symphony brass section. The program’s focal composition will be Norman Dello Joio's cantata "To Saint Cecilia."
| What | Choir Sunday Service |
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| When |
2007-04-29 05:30
2007-04-29 06:30
2007-04-29 from 10:30 to 11:30 |
| Where | UUFWS Fellowship Hall |
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From the Choir Director:
The Fellowship Choir has something very special planned for this year's All Music Service. On Sunday, April 29 we will perform as a combined community chorus of singers from the Fellowship, WFU Baptist Medical Center, and Forsyth Country Day School. This ensemble of nearly 100 singers will perform several works celebrating the power of music. The program will also feature the brass section from the Winston-Salem Symphony.
The highlight of the program will be Norman Dello Joio's cantata for choir and ten-piece brass ensemble, "To Saint Cecilia." With text adapted from John Dryden's poem, "A Song for Saint Cecilia's Day," twentieth-century American composer Norman Dello Joio creates beautiful tone painting and rich sonorities in his masterful setting of this compelling ode. Cecilia is the patron saint of music, and some accounts indicate that she was a Christian martyr. In 17th century England Cecilia was honored every November 22 with public celebrations, religious ceremonies, and concerts. Dryden's poem celebrates the emotional power of music and draws connections to both creation and the end of time.
An organist and choir director by age 14, Norman Dello Joio comes from a family of Italian church organists. He studied with his godfather, Pietro Yon, composer of the Christmas favorite, Gesu Bambino. Dello Joio studied composition with Bernard Wagenaar at Julliard and later with Paul Hindemith at Tanglewood and Yale. It was Hindemith who told him to follow his lyrical nature in composition rather than to give in to 1940's trends of serialism and atonality. Dello Joio has received numerous honors and awards including a Pulitzer Prize in 1957 for his Meditations on Ecclesiastes and an Emmy Award for his music in the television special Scenes from the Louvre.
I met Norman Dello Joio in 1971 when I was four years old. My father, a university choral conductor in Northeast Alabama, invited him to conduct his A Cappella Choir's performance of "To Saint Cecilia." Rather than fly, Dello Joio drove down from New York in his red 1966 Chevy with no hubcaps. I remember his visit well for several reasons, not the least of which, I'm sure, was my parents' excitement. They bought furniture in anticipation of his arrival. He liked my Mom's macaroni and cheese so much that he began eating it right out of the casserole dish. And he left me a lovely letter saying that when I came to visit him at his house in New York he would let me sleep in his bed since I was nice enough to let him sleep in mine. A few months ago I wrote to him - he had just turned 94 - and he wrote back to me. Now I have two letters.
The Fellowship Choir has something very special planned for this year's All Music Service. On Sunday, April 29 we will perform as a combined community chorus of singers from the Fellowship, WFU Baptist Medical Center, and Forsyth Country Day School. This ensemble of nearly 100 singers will perform several works celebrating the power of music. The program will also feature the brass section from the Winston-Salem Symphony.
The highlight of the program will be Norman Dello Joio's cantata for choir and ten-piece brass ensemble, "To Saint Cecilia." With text adapted from John Dryden's poem, "A Song for Saint Cecilia's Day," twentieth-century American composer Norman Dello Joio creates beautiful tone painting and rich sonorities in his masterful setting of this compelling ode. Cecilia is the patron saint of music, and some accounts indicate that she was a Christian martyr. In 17th century England Cecilia was honored every November 22 with public celebrations, religious ceremonies, and concerts. Dryden's poem celebrates the emotional power of music and draws connections to both creation and the end of time.
An organist and choir director by age 14, Norman Dello Joio comes from a family of Italian church organists. He studied with his godfather, Pietro Yon, composer of the Christmas favorite, Gesu Bambino. Dello Joio studied composition with Bernard Wagenaar at Julliard and later with Paul Hindemith at Tanglewood and Yale. It was Hindemith who told him to follow his lyrical nature in composition rather than to give in to 1940's trends of serialism and atonality. Dello Joio has received numerous honors and awards including a Pulitzer Prize in 1957 for his Meditations on Ecclesiastes and an Emmy Award for his music in the television special Scenes from the Louvre.
I met Norman Dello Joio in 1971 when I was four years old. My father, a university choral conductor in Northeast Alabama, invited him to conduct his A Cappella Choir's performance of "To Saint Cecilia." Rather than fly, Dello Joio drove down from New York in his red 1966 Chevy with no hubcaps. I remember his visit well for several reasons, not the least of which, I'm sure, was my parents' excitement. They bought furniture in anticipation of his arrival. He liked my Mom's macaroni and cheese so much that he began eating it right out of the casserole dish. And he left me a lovely letter saying that when I came to visit him at his house in New York he would let me sleep in his bed since I was nice enough to let him sleep in mine. A few months ago I wrote to him - he had just turned 94 - and he wrote back to me. Now I have two letters.
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