2023-24 Season
Join us as we celebrate
our 50th Anniversary Season!
For the Love of Singing
Selections for our Spring Concert will feature material from earlier programs spanning the fifty-year history of the Da Camera Singers: madrigals, other pieces celebrating music, and portions of original works we’ve commissioned and premiered by composers living and working in our area.
Two performances:
Saturday evening, May 11
7:30 p.m.
First Congregational Church
165 Main Street Amherst, MA
*50th Anniversary reception will follow in the church*
and
Sunday afternoon, May 12
3:00 p.m.
Episcopal Church of Saints James and Andrew
8 Church St, Greenfield, MA
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The program featured music that would have been sung in New England from the late 1600s (material from the Bay Psalm Book, the first book published in the United States) through to the twenty-first century. The element that ties the program together is that all the composers lived in New England at some point, studied here and composed while here.
The first half of the program also included New England poets. We traveled through the basic Psalms, to The New England Singing schools (Billings, Lowell, Swan, Holyoke, and more), a female Shaker music composer, Edward MacDowell, and Amy Beach.
Wesley United Methodist Church
98 N. Maple St., Hadley, MA
7:30 p.m.
and
Saturday, Dec. 2
Trinitarian Congregational Church
147 Main St., Northfield, MA
4 p.m.
The Northfield concert was part of the closing celebrations of the
Northfield 350th anniversary year.
This concert was made possible in part by
Da Camera also gratefully acknowledges the support it received from the Cultural Council of Warwick, MA.
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