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Registration & Rehearsal Information
Cappella Cantorum’s non-auditioned registration/rehearsal for Brahms’ “REQUIEM,” (in English) will take place Monday, Jan.9, 7 p.m. at John Winthrop Middle School, Route 80 (Exit 5 off Route 9,) Deep River, 06417. Registration is $40, Music is $7. All singers are welcome. Rehearsals are Mondays at 7:30 p.m. at John Winthrop Middle School. Our performance is now scheduled for Sunday, April 22, 3 PM at John Winthrop. For more information call Barry Asch at (860) 388-2871.
Cappella Cantorum’s non-auditioned late registration/rehearsal for Brahms “REQUIEM,” (in English) will take place Monday, Jan.16, 7 p.m. at St. Paul Episcopal Church, 56 Great Hammock Rd. Old Saybrook, CT. Registration is $40, Music is $7. All singers are welcome. Rehearsals are Mondays at 7:30 p.m. at John Winthrop Middle School. The concert is scheduled for Sunday, April 22, 3 PM at John Winthrop. For more information call Music Director, Barry Asch at (860) 388-2871.
Cappella Cantorum Men’s Chorus Registration/Rehearsal, Mon., April 23, at John Winthrop Middle School, Rte 80, (exit 5, CT 9) Deep River. The male chorus is conducted by Barry Asch. Rehearsals are on Monday nights at 7:30 PM at John Winthrop Middle School. Music/Registration is $24. Students get free registration. Selections include: Spirituals, Sea Chanteys, Gospel. Classical and Broadway Selections. Contact Barry Asch at (860) 388-2871 for information.
Cappella Cantorum Men’s Chorus non-auditioned Late Registration/Rehearsal, Mon., April 30, at John Winthrop Middle School, Rte 80, (exit 5, CT 9) Deep River. The male chorus is conducted by Barry Asch. Rehearsals are on Monday nights at 7:30 PM at John Winthrop Middle School. Music/Registration is $24. Students get free registration. Selections include: Spirituals, Sea Chanteys, Gospel. Classical and Broadway Selections. Contact Barry Asch at (860) 388-2871 for information.
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2011
SummerSings Series
St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church
56 Great Hammock Road
Old Saybrook, CT
Monday Evenings: 7:30 – 9:30 p.m.
SummerSings, an annual choral event co-sponsored by Cappella Cantorum and Con Brio Choral Society, provides an opportunity to sing six masterworks with Connecticut choral conductors and professional 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 come and sing!
| June 6 | Steve Bruce Con Brio Choral Society |
Mozart Requiem |
| June 13 |
Mark Singleton Eastern Connecticut Symphony Chorus, Voce Inc., and Immanuel Congregational Church |
Haydn Selections from Creation |
| June 20 | Marguerite Brooks Yale University School of Music, Institute of Sacred Music, and Camerata, and Church of the Redeemer |
Beethoven Mass in C Major |
| August 1 |
Kevin Mack Manchester Symphony Orchestra & Chorale, Congregational Church of S. Glastonbury, and Connecticut Z'mirah Chorale |
Rutter Requiem |
| August 8 |
Rachael Allen Westbrook Middle and Senior High Schools |
Vivaldi, Gloria Haydn, Te Deum |
| August 15 |
Barry Asch Cappella Cantorum |
Brahms Requiem (in English) |
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 2011 | Rossini's Petite Messe Solenelle |
| April 2012 | Brahm's Requiem in English |
| December 2012 |
Randall Thompson's Frostiana Conrad Susa's Carols and Lullabies |
| April 2013 | Verdi's Requiem |
| December 2013 | Great Opera Choruses (various) |
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 6/8/2011
