Melodia Women's Choir

UPCOMING CONCERTS

Saturday November 20 at 8PM
FALL 2010 CONCERT

Featuring
Benjamin Britten's Missa Brevis
and the first Melodia Composer Spotlight!

Church of the Holy Apostles

296 Ninth Avenue at West 28th Street, NYC
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PAST CONCERTS

SONGS FROM THE HEART

Saturday May 22 at 8:30PM

Love is in the air with this concert of lusciously lyrical works from the romantic period and beyond.

Conducted by Cynthia Powell
With Taisiya Pushkar, piano

Robert Schumann: Partsongs: Klosterfraulein; Der Bleicherin Nachtlied; Der Wasserman; Spruch; In Meeres Mitten
Johannes Brahms: Four Songs from The Fountain of Youth; In Stiller Nacht
Fanny Hensel: Three Heine Duets
Serge Rachmaninoff: The Angel from Six Choruses, Opus 15
Charles Villiers Stanford, arr. Faye Timmer: The Blue Bird
Felix Mendelssohn: Lied Mit Chor from Midsummer Night’s Dream
Tofig Guliyev: Azeri songs arr. Naila Aziz (soprano soloist): Oglum, Arzular; Al Shammanisi
Hamish MacCunn: On a Faded Violet; O My Love, Leave Me Not!
Piano interlude: Taisiya Pushkar performs works by Clara Schumann and Robert Schumann, in celebration of his 200th birthday

Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center
Goodman House
129 West 67th Street, NYC

NOTES UPON THE BREEZE

Saturday November 14 at 8PM

Featuring the world premiere of a new commissioned work by Chris Lastovicka.

Conducted by Cynthia Powell.

plus. . .
Selections from Pergolesi's Stabat Mater
Gustav Holst's Songs from the Princess
Imant Raminsh's Songs of the Lights

With
Taisiya Pushkar, piano
Transfigurations String Quintet
Lindsay Haughton, percussion

Saint Peter's Church, Citicorp
691 Lexington Avenue at East 54th Street, NYC
Information: 212-252-4134

SPRING CONCERT 2009

SATURDAY MAY 16 AT 8PM
An evening of French choral works and other gems
Conducted by Cynthia Powell
Françoise Murail, ondes Martenot
Kyung-A Yoo, piano
All-female orchestra
A rare performance of Olivier Messiaen's Trois petites liturgies de la présence divine, for women's choir, ondes Martenot, and orchestra.
Plus...
Messe a trois voix, by André Caplet
In Memoriam Olivier Messiaen, by Reza Vali (Naila Aziz, soprano)
U.S. premiere of an arrangement of Messiaen's Fête des belles eaux, for ondes Martenot, strings, piano, and flute, by Claude S. Levine.
Gustav Holst's Ave Maria
Gabriel Fauré's Cantique de Jean Racine

Church of St. Ignatius Loyola
980 Park Avenue at East 84th Street

Sweet Interlude

WRAPPED IN SONG
November 15 and 16, 2008

Conducted by Cynthia Powell, Artistic Director
Elaine Christy, harp

Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols
Randall Thompson: Alleluia
Veljo Tormis: Selections from Autumn Landscapes and Winter Patterns
Gustav Holst: Two Eastern Pictures
John Rutter: Selections from Dancing Day
Zoltan Kodály: Wainamoinen Makes Music
John Kuzma: The Lamb

FORCE OF NATURE
May 3 and 4, 2008

Conducted by Cynthia Powell, Artistic Director
Kyung-A Yoo, piano

Ronald Perera: Earthsongs
Hilary Tann: Wellspring (U.S. premiere)
Hilary Tann: Contemplations (N.Y. premiere)
Zhou Long: Four Seasons
Yehezkel Braun: Spring Song
Samuel Barber: Sure on this Shining Night
Gordon Jacob: from A Goodly Heritage
Zoltán Kodály: Mountain Nights, No. 1
Ro Ogura: Hotaru Koi (Firefly)

Sweet Interlude

SWEET INTERLUDE
November 17 and 18, 2007

Conducted by Cynthia Powell
Kyung-A Yoo, piano
Nancy Ranger, oboe and English horn
Joyce Toth, trumpet
Miranda Cuckson & Shira Natif, violins
Stephanie Griffin, viola
Karen Ouzounian, cello
Rachel Calin, bass

Felix Mendelssohn: Lift Thine Eyes from Elijah
J.S. Bach: Wir eilen mis schwachen from Cantata 78 and Den Tod niemand swingen kunnt from Cantata 4
Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria RV 589, as originally performed by the all-female choir and orchestra of the Ospedale della Pietà in 18th century Venice
Becca Schack: In My End is My Beginning (world premiere)
Eric Whitacre: She Weeps Over Rahoon and Five Hebrew Love Songs

SHOUT SISTER SHOUT!
Girl Groups from the 12th to 21st Centuries
Saturday May 5, 2007

Conducted by Cynthia Powell
Kyung-A Yoo, Piano
Barbara Merjan, percussion
Catherine Popper, bass
Sheryl Bailey, guitar
Pam Fleming, Trumpet
Morgan Russell and Vivien Lau, recorders

Hildegard von Bingen -- O Quam Mirabilis
(Originally sung by the Sisters of the Eibingen convent)
Music from the Venetian Ospedali -- Magnificat, by Niccola Porpora (1686-1768)
Mediaeval Baebes -- Love Me Broughte and Pearl
Bulgarian Women’s Choir -- Polegnala e Toudora and Ergen Deda
Meredith Monk Ensemble -- Quarry Weave II
Sweet Honey In The Rock -- Alla That’s Alright, But
Andrews Sisters -- Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
The Chordettes -- Mr. Sandman
Boswell Sisters -- Shout! Sister, Shout!
The McGuire Sisters -- Teach Me Tonight
Dixie Chicks -- Lullaby

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