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Cappella Cantorum Men's Chorus features George Gershwin and Irving Berlin Music
Cappella Cantorum Mens
Chorus Concert, Sunday, Sept. 26, 3 PM, at First Church of Christ
Congregational of East Haddam, 499 Town St., East Haddam. The 38-member male
chorus is conducted by Barry Asch and accompanied by Susan Sweeney. The concert,
to benefit First Church, features music by George Gershwin and Irving Berlin and
includes: Amazing Grace, Count Your Blessings, Three Chanteys, Strike Up the
Band and The Last Words of David. Solos include: Embraceable You and Someone to
Watch Over Me. The Hill Top Four, Barbershop Quartet also will perform.
Reception, following the performance. Tickets are $15; Advanced Sale Tickets
$12, also students and seniors. Children 12 & under are free, but must have a
ticket. Advance sale tickets can be purchased or reserved by calling
860-873-9084, ext. 33. Tickets may also be purchased at the door.
Cappella Cantorum Men’s
Chorus presents “BROTHERS, SING ON!”
Featuring music of George Gershwin and Irving Berlin
The Cappella Cantorum Men’s Chorus will present “BROTHERS, SING ON!” Sunday, October 3rd at 3:00 P.M. in the Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, 300 Main Street, Old Saybrook, CT. The thirty eight member Men’s Chorus is conducted by Old Saybrook resident Barry B. Asch and accompanied by Susan Sweeney of Deep River; with flutist Nancy Skeele, Old Saybrook; and Narrator William Werwaiss, Ivoryton. Featuring music of Gershwin & Berlin, Gospel, Sea Chanteys, Broadway, Folk Songs and Classical Music. The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center venue is part of the Cappella Cantorum Men’s Chorus 2010 Concert Tour which will conclude in Cape Cod.. Members represent seventeen towns throughout the State. All tickets are $16.00. For reservations, call the Box-Office in Sept. (860) 510-0453 or visit the web-site: www.thekate.org.
JOYFUL CONCERT: HAYDN’S “PAUKENMESSE” & “TE DEUM"
CAPPELLA CANTORUM and WESTBROOK CHAMBER CHOIR.
Cappella Cantorum will perform Haydn’s “PAUKENMESSE;” “TE DEUM” on Saturday, Dec. 4, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 5, at 3 p.m. at St. Mark R.C.Church, 222 McVeagh Rd. Westbrook.CT . On Saturday, Dec. 4, 8 PM, Rachael Allen will conduct the Westbrook Chamber Choir, which will participate with Cappella on the “Te Deum” and “For the Beauty of the Earth” by John Rutter and perform some of their own music. Come and enjoy the joyful choruses. with professional chamber orchestra under the direction of Barry Asch. Tickets $20, Seniors and Students $18. Children 12 and under free. Tickets available at Homeworks, Old Saybrook; Celebrations, Deep River: The Turning Page, Old Lyme and Stewart’s Music, Niantic. Call (860) 767-8452 for information.
Registration & Rehearsal Information
HAYDN’S “PAUKENMESSE” CAPPELLA CANTORUM’S REGISTRATION
Cappella Cantorum’s non-auditioned registration/rehearsal for Haydn’s “PAUKENMESSE” will take place Monday, Sept. 13, 7 p.m. at John Winthrop Middle School, Route 80 (Exit 5 off Route 9) in Deep River. Soloists and an ensemble will be auditioned from Cappella Cantorum Members. Concert dates are Saturday, Dec. 4, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 5, at 3 p.m. at St. Mark R.C.Church, Westbrook. Rehearsals are Mondays at 7:30 p.m. at John Winthrop Middle School. Registration fee is $40; music $22. High school students are free. Late Registration is Sept. 20, 7 PM, John Winthrop. For more information call Barry Asch at (860) 388-2871.
MessiahSing, Dec. 19
A MessiahSing, will be sponsored by Cappella Cantorum on Sunday, Dec. 19 at 4 PM in The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Art Center, (The Kate) 300 Main St. Old Saybrook. The Sing is open to all, featuring professional soloists under the direction of Barry Asch and accompanied by Deborah Lyon. Bring your Messiah Scores if you have them or they will be provided. There is a $10 fee with to cover expenses and with profit going to support The Kate. Audience is invited to sit in the back, witness the short rehearsal and the Sing. Tickets will be available on-line and through the Box Office, closer to the Sing. For information call Barry Asch at 860-388-2871.
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2010
SummerSings Series
St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church
56 Great Hammock Road
Old Saybrook, CT
Monday Evenings: 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
SummerSings is an annual event, featuring major choral works, presented for the enjoyment of the singers. Co-sponsored by Cappella Cantorum and Con Brio, it provides an opportunity to sing major choral works. It also offers the chance to work with noted choral conductors in an air-conditioned setting. We also enjoy the talent of guest soloists.
Registration for each Monday is from 7:00 to 7:30 p.m. The $8.00 fee includes a borrowed score for the evening. However, please bring your own score, if you have one.
Open to all, no advance registration necessary – just turn up and sing!
| June 7 | Barry Asch Cappella Cantorum |
Mozart Requiem |
| June 14 |
Frank Martignetti Mystic River Chorale |
Mozart Coronation Mass |
| June 21 | Joe D'Eugenio The Greater Middletown Chorale |
Mendelssohn Elijah |
| August 2 |
Steve Bruce Con Brio Choral Society |
Puccini Messe di Gloria |
| August 9 |
Ed Blkovac New Haven Chorale |
Haydn Paukenmesse |
| August 16 |
Noah Glynn Shoreline Community Chorale |
Rutter Requiem |
For more information, download the flyer, visit www.conbrio.org or www.cappellacantorum.org, or phone: (860) 664-0668 or (203) 458-0307.
| When | Concert |
| December 2010 | Haydn's Paukenmass |
| April 2011 | Bach's Mass in B Minor |
| December 2011 | Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle |
| April 2012 | Brahm's Requiem in English |
Cappella Cantorum
is a non-audition community chorus with over 100 singers whose primary purpose
is to learn, perform and enjoy great choral music, while striving for excellence
and enrichment of its singers and audience. It provides singers from more than
20 Southeastern Connecticut communities with the opportunity to perform these
works with a professional orchestra and professional or Cappella soloists.
We especially encourage high school students and their parents to join us in making music together. Our wide mix
of ages (from teens to folks in their 80s), along with a marvelous blend of voices, make our singing together a
most joyful experience.
Our Music Director/Conductor, and one of Cappella's founders in 1970, is
Barry B. Asch.
Cappella's Men's Chorus Concerts began in 1977. The group has performed to enthusiastic audiences throughout Connecticut.
The Men's Chorus is available for fund-raising concerts or just for fun. To join or sponsor a concert, call 860-388-2871.
The Cappella Cantorum Tour Choir of 30 to 50 singers has visited Europe and Canada on tours combining sightseeing with concerts since 1981. Call 203-457-1456 for more information about receiving notification of 2009 tour plans.
For more information about Cappella Cantorum call 860-388-2871 or 860-334-3640.
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Performing Choral Masterworks
Since 1970
Bach:
Christmas Oratorio; Cantata No. 142; Mass in B Minor; Magnificat;
Passion According to St. John; Cantata No. 140.
Beethoven:
Mass in C Major.
Bernstein:
Chichester Psalms.
Bloch:
Sacred Service.
Brahms:
A German Requiem; Song of Destiny; Gypsy Songs.
Britten:
Ceremony of Carols; Saint Nicolas.
Duruflé:
Requiem.
Dvorak:
Stabat Mater; Requiem
Fauré:
Requiem.
Gershwin:
Porgy and Bess.
Handel:
Messiah; Judas Maccabaeus; Chandos Anthems; Israel in Egypt;Coronation Anthems; Samson; sacred chorus selections.
Haydn:
Mass in B Flat Major; The Creation; Mass in D Minor; Mass in C Major; Mass in G Major; Heiligmesse.
Honegger:
King David.
Kodaly:
Te Deum.
Mendelssohn:
Elijah.
Menotti:
Amahl and the Night Visitors.
Mozart:
Requiem; Vesperae Solennes de Confessore; Mass in C Major;
Regina Coeli; Magic Flute (selections); Te Deum.
Orff:
Carmina Burana.
Pinkham:
Christmas Cantata.
Poulenc:
Gloria.
Puccini:
Messa di Gloria.
Respighi:
Laud to the Nativity.
Rossini:
Petite Messe Solennelle.
Rutter:
Gloria; Magnificat; great opera choruses, Requiem
Saint-Saens:
Christmas Oratorio
Schubert:
Mass in E Flat Major; Mass in G Major; Mass in A Flat Major.
Strauss, J., II:
Die Fledermaus (ball scene).
Thompson:
Frostiana.
Vaughan Williams:
Toward the Unknown Region; Benedicite; Hodie.
Verdi:
Requiem; opera chorus selections.
Vivaldi:
Gloria;
Magnificat.
Wagner:
Opera chorus selections.
Music Director/Conductor and co-founder of Cappella Cantorum,
Barry B. Asch is a native of the Nutmeg State and graduated with a master of
music education degree from Hartt School of Music, University of Hartford. He
has attended workshops with Robert Shaw, Howard Swan, Michael Korn, and Sir
David Willcocks. He has studied voice with Martha Oneppo, Martha King, Edward
Hull, William Diard, and Leighton Phraner.
Barry served as music department chairman at Valley
Regional High School, Deep River, Connecticut, where he taught for 31 years.
Barry is choir director at the First Congregational Church in Essex and teaches
workshops in vocal production and performance for Elderhostel. He has conducted
enthusiastically received concert tours with Cappella performing in Belgium,
England, Austria, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Canada, Ireland, Scotland, Czech
Republic, Hungary, France, and Spain. During the summer of 2000, conductor Asch
was part of the Conductors Master Class with Helmuth Rilling at the Oregon Bach
Festival, and a participating conductor in the Dennis Keene Choral Festival at
the Kent School in Connecticut. He received the Shoreline Arts Achievement Award
in 2007 for a significant and ongoing cultural contribution to the Shoreline
Community.
Professional organizations include the American Choral Directors Association,
Music Educators National Conference, National Educators Association, and past
board member of the Association of Connecticut Choruses.
Barry is married to Wilma Brewer Asch who served as Executive Director of
Cappella Cantorum for its first sixteen years. They reside in Old Saybrook.
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Cappella Cantorum has performed
in concerts at Carnegie Hall since 2000 by invitation from MidAmerica
Productions. These concerts were as follows:
2000 Duruflé: Requiem
2001 Mozart: Requiem
2002 Rutter: Requiem (John Rutter conducted)
2003 Beethoven: Mass in C
2005 Faure: Requiem
Plans for Cappella's Tour Concerts 2011: We are planning a
wonderful trip to Turkey in June of 2011. Now all we need are singers and
guests. The hotels we have chosen are all air-conditioned and from all the
pictures Cultural Tour Consultants have sent or shown us, we can see that we
will be going to some very
beautiful and historical places.
Our guest conductor,
Kevin Buno, from Guilford High School is Musical Director and the guest
accompanist Rachel Allen, Music Director at
Westbrook High school, are welcome additions to the group. We hope you will
consider joining us.
I am already thinking
about taking a hot air balloon ride in Cappadocia. It seems to be the thing to
do there. You can count on me to make
sure that there will be air-conditioning, hopefully pools to swim in and water
close by. The areas that we will visit are Istanbul, Antioch,
Cappadocia, Adana and Kusadasi.
For $3430, along with
all the usual things included like hotels, one plane ride in Turkey and a short
cruise you get all but five dinners
paid for and a superb guide. It is a pretty good deal, the best one we have had
since 10 or 15 years ago. If you have an interest, please
email me at phill2003mad@yahoo.com
or call 203-245-2887. Looking forward to hearing from you.
—Pat Hill
There will be a presentation by the travel agent in September 20th at 6:15 PM, before Cappella Cantorum’s rehearsal at John Winthrop Middle School. If you want to come, please notify Pat Hill and she will give you the details.
| Cappella Cantorum Men's Chorus Concert Dates 2009 | |
| Sunday, June 7 | Concert at St. Paul Lutheran Church |
| Sunday, June 16 | Essex Meadows |
| Saturday, July 18 | Aaron Manor, Essex |
| Sunday, July 19 | Westbrook Congregational Church |
| Sunday, September 13 | Katharine Hepburn Cultural Art Center |
| Sunday, September 20 | First Church, East Haddam |
| Sunday, October 4 | Heritage Village, Southbury |
| This list includes four community outreach programs. | |
Cappella Cantorum Men’s Chorus
drawing inspired in St. Paul Lutheran Church
in a 2005 concert, drawn by Madeleine Favre of Deep River.
Susan Sweeney & Charles Stanndard on Piano,
and Nancy Skeele on Flute
Cappella Cantorum Men's Chorus performing in St. Paul
Lutheran Church
Barbershop Quartet (L to R)
Len Dongweck—tenor, Bob Johnson—lead, Dale Dickinson—bass,
Tony Carrano—baritone
ELIJAH, by Mendelssohn was presented by Cappella Cantorum on Sunday, April 6 at John Winthrop Middle School in Deep River. The 100 voice chorus, with professional orchestra and soloists was directed by Barry Asch. Soloists: Soprano, Susan von Reichenbach; Mezzo Soprano, Abigail Nims; Tenor, David Finley; Baritone, Richard Lalli. A reception followed the performance.
Cappella's Elijah, Full House
Elijah Soloists and Conductor
From L to R: Soprano, Susan von Reichenbach; Mezzo
Soprano, Abigail Nims;
Conductor, Barry Asch; Baritone, Richard Lalli; Tenor, David Finley.
"Elijah" was presented on April 6, by Cappella Cantorum at John Winthrop
Middle School, Deep River, to a full house and a standing ovation.
Write us at:
Call us
or email:
Doris Mackay, Cappella Cantorum's Board President, at (860) 739-7236,
doris.mackay@snet.net
Or
Barry Asch, Music Director, at 860-388-2871,
barryasch@comcast.net
Updated 3/17/2009
