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Da Camera Singers

2023-24 Season

Join us as we celebrate
our 50th Anniversary Season! 

Fall, 2023

 December in New England: 1673 – 2015

The program features 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 includes New England poets. We travel 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. 

 

The second half of the program includes music of Nathaniel Dett and Ulysses Kay, arrangements of carols by Alice Parker, arrangements by Robert DeCormier, and the Christmas Cantata by Daniel Pinkham. One of the DeCormier arrangements is a song made famous by Peter, Paul and Mary, “Don’t Let the Lights Go Out,” inspired by Hanukkah.  

 

Friday Dec. 1 at Wesley United Church, 7:30 p.m.
and
Saturday, Dec. 2 at the Trinitarian Church in Northfield, either 4 p.m. or 7 p.m.
(to be determined).
The Northfield concert will be part of the closing celebrations of the
Northfield 350th anniversary year.

 

Check back for further details including venue addresses and directions. 

 

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Spring, 2024

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. 

Dates, times, and venues for this concert are all to be determined. 

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