2011 WINTER CONCERT
"Carols and Lullabies"
Saturday, December 10
8 p.m.

Dobbs Ferry Middle/High School
Route 9, Dobbs Ferry, NY

This festive holiday program includes works by Johannes Brahms and Stephen Chatman, three settings of O Magnum Mysterium – by Morten Lauridsen, Giovanni Gabrieli, and our Music Director, Michael Conley – as well as Conrad Susa’s magical Carols and Lullabies: Christmas in the Southwest.

When asked in 1992 about the inspiration behind Christmas in the Southwest, Susa replied: “…a friend, Gary Holt, showed me a collection of traditional Spanish carols he had sung as a boy in Arizona. Excited, I juggled them around to form a narrative. I noted their many connections with Renaissance music along with their homey, artful simplicity. Finally, the overriding image of a Southwestern piñata party for the new baby led me to add guitar and marimba to Britten’s harp and to compose connective music and totally re-conceive the carols.

In an overlooked detail in the Christmas story, the New Baby bawls loudly as the shepherds leave in the final bars of Chiquirriquitin. (You may hear him in your mind.) His parents now must dandle and soothe him to sleep. Tired themselves, they drift off as the angels hover about them in protective adoration.

A small, eclectic orchestra including harp, guitar, horns, oboe, vibraphone, and marimba promises to bring new depth to the program, and a shimmering new sound to choral mix.

2012 SPRING CONCERT
“MASS IN D"
by John Knowles Paine
Saturday, May 5, 2012
8 p.m.

Dobbs Ferry Middle/High School
Route 9, Dobbs Ferry, NY

Written during the Civil War era, this stunning and rarely performed romantic masterpiece premiered in 1867 as America’s first large-scale work for chorus and orchestra.

SPRING TAG SALE
Friday, May 18/Saturday, May 19, 2012

A Giant Tag Sale to benefit the Hudson Chorale will be held on Friday and Saturday, May 18 and 19 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. Early Birds - 8am to 9am for a $10 fee. location: 107 Bedford Road, Pleasantville (corner of Manville/Route 117). Rain or shine. Furniture, collectibles, equipment, small appliances, books, jewelry, toys, LPs, music, bric-a-brac, clothes, etc. To donate tax-deductible items, call (914) 769-9309.