Benefit Concert For Haiti

To Feature The CCSU University Singers

The University Singers, a 14 member a cappella singing ensemble from Central Connecticut State University, will perform a concert at Trinity Episcopal Church, 36 Main Street in Newtown, on Sunday, May 2, at 4 pm. Proceeds will raise money for continued earthquake relief in Haiti.

An auditioned chamber ensemble, The University Singers is a healthy mix of music and other majors from throughout the university. The repertoire is purposefully varied to include chamber music from all periods of music history, as well as traditional folk music and vocal jazz. The group has given concert tours in Germany, Puerto Rico, Hungary and France, and in March 2009, they gave a concert tour in China. 

The program for the Newtown concert will include madrigals and motets by Weelkes, Schütz, and di Lasso and will sing J.S. Bach’s  BWV 229, Motet #5, Komm, Jesu, Komm. In addition, the ensemble will perform works by American composers including Reincarnations by Samuel Barber.

On a lighter side, there will be vocal jazz arrangements of music by Gershwin, Lennon and McCartney, and other spirituals and novelty songs. 

All of the freewill donations collected at this concert will benefit Haiti relief.

For further details contact Fiona Smith Sutherland at Trinity Episcopal Church, 203-426-9070 extension 11 or email to MusicMinister@TrinityNewtownCT.org.