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symphony of voices  - Sunday, June 3, 2012

 

A wonderful success!

Read a review of the concert by Vincent de Luise at www.amusicalvision.blogspot.com

 

And this unsolicited response from an audience member in a letter to the
Waterbury Republican-American:

Waterbury Choral Society concert was a thrill from the start - Carl Strange, Southbury

   The June 3 concert given by the Connecticut Choral Society at Naugatuck Valley Community College was an astounding triumph, not because the quality of the performance was surprising, but because the centerpiece of the event, Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 1, is one with which I am so thoroughly familiar that my expectations were unfairly high.

  I received the album as a Christmas gift nearly 40 years ago, and have acquired several newer recordings since. I listened not as a casual concert-goer, but as one who has a great love for many individual passages in the score. My prejudiced ears left no room for variance,
let alone error.

  And yet, not a measure, not a note, disappointed me. It was a thrill from the start. Perhaps most amazingly, when "Sea Symphony" ended after a little more than an hour and the last note died, conductor Eric Knapp stood with the performers in a seven-second tableau of silence. The applause erupted into a well-deserved roar.

  Knapp and the CCS, along with the Choral Society of New Jersey, bowed to us, but I wish to make public here my even deeper bow to them.

 

 

 

Jessica Rivera, soprano             Mark Womack, baritone

A Sea Symphony by Ralph Vaughan Williams, written between 1903 and 1909 is his first and longest symphony. Walt Whitman's poetry in A Sea Symphony begs the question ... “Who speak the secret of impassive earth?” and Ralph Vaughan Williams responds with ... “Singing” ... voices united in a powerful choral and orchestral proclamation.  In this moment rests the essence of our season.

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