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Sing,
My tongue, the glorious battle (chorus)
From "Sing My Tongue"
990K, 2:12 minutes long
"There Was War in Heaven"
2,057K, 4:26 minutes long
© Harry Huff
Used by permission
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Yale Camerata, 2008-2009
Marguerite
L. Brooks, conductor
Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Choral Conducting and Chair of the Program in Choral Conducting, Yale Institute
of Sacred Music and Yale School of Music
Founded in 1985 by its conductor, Marguerite L. Brooks, the Yale Camerata is a vocal ensemble sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music. The group’s singers are Yale graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, staff, and experienced singers from the New Haven community. The Camerata performs a widely varied spectrum of choral literature, with a specific commitment to recently composed choral music. The Camerata has collaborated with the Yale Glee Club, Yale Philharmonia, Yale Symphony, Yale Band, Yale Chamber Players, Yale Collegium Musicum, the New Haven Chorale, and the symphony orchestras of Hartford, New Haven, and Norwalk. The ensemble has also performed for Yale Music Spectrum and New Music New Haven. The chamber chorus of the Yale Camerata has performed at the Yale Center for British Art and at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall. They have traveled to Germany to perform the Berlioz Requiem with choruses from Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Israel, Great Britain, and the Ukraine, and, in 2001, spent a week in residence at Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London, England. The Camerata has been heard on Connecticut Public Radio and on national broadcasts of National Public Radio’s program “Performance Today.” Guest conductors have included Robert Shaw, Jaap Schröder, Sir David Willcocks, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sir Neville Marriner, Helmuth Rilling, and Nicholas McGegan. With the Institute of Sacred Music, the Camerata has commissioned and premiered works of Martin Bresnick, Daniel Kellogg, Stephen Paulus, Daniel Pinkham, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, among others. The chorus has sung first performances of works by many composers, including Kathryn Alexander, Tawnie Olson, and Francine Trester.
Highlights of the 2009-2010 season will include the East Coast premiere of a work by Pulitzer Prize winning composer Aaron J. Kernis, Haydn Paukenmesse at the annual Advent concert, a residency with Dale Warland, renowned for his championship of U.S. composers, and the Verdi Requiem with the Yale Glee Club and Yale Symphony Orchestra.
PAST EVENTS
Autumn Winds
Chamber Choir of the Yale Camerata and Sospiro Winds
Gian Carlo Menotti, The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore
October 26 Sunday
4 PM
St. Michael’s Church, Litchfield, CT (25 South Street) [MAP]
J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio (complete)
December 6 Saturday
Part I: Cantatas I - III
8 PM
Battell Chapel
Preconcert talk by Markus Rathey at 7 PM
Dwight Chapel
December 7 Sunday
Part II: Cantatas IV – VI
4 PM
Battell Chapel
Preconcert talk by Markus Rathey at 3 PM
Joseph Slifka Center
Celebration of Four Masters
Nicholas McGegan conducts music of Handel, Haydn, and Mendelssohn
Joint concert with Yale Schola Cantorum, Yale Glee Club, and Yale Philharmonia
March 1 Sunday
4 PM
Woolsey Hall
Music for Palm Sunday
Choral music from Renaissance Italy and contemporary New Haven
April 5 Sunday
3 PM
Woolsey Hall
Holst, The Planets "Neptune"
Women of the Yale Camerata with the Yale Symphony Orchestra
Toshiyuki Shimada, conductor
April 18 Saturday
8 PM
Woolsey Hall
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