VOCES8 performs A Boy and a Girl by Eric Whitacre

VOCES8 is an ensemble, usually of eight voices, based in England. Here it is in London singing a piece by Eric Whitacre.

Tom Reingold

Unusual and ambitious for Cerddorion: Dido and Aeneas, fully staged

Last week, Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble announced its upcoming concert of The Book of Rounds. Very soon after that concert, Cerddorion presents a fully staged opera, something we don't normally do. We are collaborating with Christopher Caines Dance to put the entire work into an innovatively staged production of Dido and Aeneas. The opera was published around 1688 by English composer Henry Purcell. It tells the story of the widowed queen of Carthage, Dido, with Trojan prince Aeneas.

We will offer two performances:

Location: Good Shepherd-Faith Presbyterian Church, 152 W 66 St (near Amsterdam Ave), Manhattan

Times: Friday, March 27, 8 pm
            Saturday, March 28, 3 pm

Buy tickets here

To learn more: Ellen Harris wrote about the opera's history in The New York Times in December of 2017: The More We Learn About ‘Dido and Aeneas,’ the Less We Know

An unusual concert: The Book of Rounds

Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble usually presents concerts with varieties of music selected from many centuries. This is our 25th year, and all of our concerts break out of our normal mold. Our March 1 concert will be of a single work called The Book of Rounds: 21 Songs of Grace. The work is written by Julie Flanders and Emil Adler. This song cycle bridges pop, classical, and choral music. In the creators’ words, each original round is “a fugue of positive messages. The cyclical structure of the musical round lifts the words beyond their ordinary meanings into an enveloping and transformative experience for singer and listener alike.” Joining us in this collaborative venture are two youth ensembles from the Kaufman Music Center’s Special Music School: Vox Nova Boys Choir and 5th Grade Choir (Emily John, Director).

This concert will be on Sunday, March 1, 2020, at 3pm at St Ignatius of Antioch, 552 West End Ave, entrance on W 87 St.

See https://cerddorion.org for tickets or click here.