Great Waters
Brings together over 100 selected singers for an exciting musical weekend rehearsing and performing choral masterpieces. Participants must have extensive choral and musical training and learn all music before arriving. Rehearsals are intensive and designed to provide an in-depth musical experience.
Repertoire: Leonard Bernstein’s Mass (abridged version, commissioned in 2008); the five spirituals from Sir Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time; three Verdi opera choruses: “Brindisi” from La Traviata, “The Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves” from Nabucco and the “Anvil Chorus” from Il Trovatore. Conducted by Christopher Shepard.