Music For Palm Sunday
Music For Palm Sunday
NEW HAVEN â The Yale Camerata will give its final performance of the 2002â03 season on Sunday, April 13, at Woolsey Hall in New Haven. The short concert, âMusic for Palm Sunday,â will begin at 6 pm.
The program of music by 20th Century British composers include Charles Woodâs St Mark Passion, with Thomas Murray on the Newberry organ, and the Requiem of Herbert Howells, an a cappella piece for double choir and soloists. The Yale Pro Musica, the chamber choir drawn from the Camerata, will also be featured.
The Yale Camerata, founded in 1985 by its conductor Marguerite L. Brooks, is a vocal ensemble sponsored by the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University. The singers in the group 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.
Admission is free. For more information call the Institute at 203-432-5180.