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Yale Camerata Announces ‘Peace On Earth’ As Holiday Program

NEW HAVEN — Yale Camerata, conducted by Marguerite L. Brooks, will present its annual advent concert on Saturday, December 2, at 8 pm, in Battell Chapel.

The program, with orchestral accompaniment, will include music of J. S. Bach, Hans Leo Hassler, Felix Mendelssohn, Arvo Part, and a rarely heard mass of Hans Seydelmann. The concert will conclude, in its annual tradition, with the Willcocks arrangement of Goss’s See, amid the Winter’s Snow, with the audience joining in.

Franz Seydelmann (1748­-1806), Kapellmeister at the Saxon court in Dresden, composed 36 masses for the court church. This performance of Mass No. 3 in C minor is a North American premiere, and is likely the composition’s first performance in any country since Seydelmann’s death 200 years ago.

Vocal soloists for the concert will be drawn from the Yale Voxtet, students in the graduate voice program of Yale Institute of Sacred Music and Yale School of Music. Olav van Hezewijk will be soloist in Bach’s Concerto for oboe d’amore.

Founded in 1985 by its conductor, Yale Camerata’s approximately 60 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 special commitment to choral music of our time.

The advent concert, sponsored by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.

For more information, call 203-432-5062 or visit yale.edu/ism.

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