Philharmonic joins Oberlin Womens Chorale April 10
April 2, 2010
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The Tuscarawas Philharmonic will be joined by the Oberlin College Womens Chorale, as the Philharmonic continues its 74th season Saturday, April 10, and The Journey Continues with more vivid and fascinating music from The Planets by Gustav Holst.
The Oberlin College Womens Chorale, a chamber choir founded in the fall of 2005 by its conductor, Dr. Jody L. Kerchner, Professor of Music Education, sings three and four-part music, including songs from the classical choral canon, world music, and sacred and secular genres.
Kerchner is Professor and Director of Music Education at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music where she is the secondary school music and choral music education specialist. She is co-author and co-editor of Musical Experience in Our Lives: Things We Learn and Meanings We Make and Prelude to Music Education. Her work has also been published in several professional journals and she frequently serves as a choral clinician and honors choir conductor.
The womens chorale will be featured performing several numbers from their own repertoire on the first half of the program, including the Ohio premiere of philharmonic music director Eric Benjamins original setting of Emily Dickinsons Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, which was first composed, according to Benjamin, as a kind of anthem to be sung at the Mount Holyoke College homecoming, as a non-sectarian affirmation of faith and a celebration of the heritage of the college. Emily Dickinson attended the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, the schools predecessor, and the poem is one of her more popular ones.
The piece will use ringers from the First Methodist Church of New Philadelphias bell choir, directed by Robert Wallace.
Women from the philharmonic chorus will then join the Oberlin Womens Chorale to supply the haunting sound of the womens chorus in Holsts movement from The Planets titled Neptune, the Mystic. Saturn, the Bringer of Old Age, and Uranus, the Magician will complete the second half.
The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Dover High School auditorium. Single admission tickets are available at the door for each concert at $15 for adults, $12 for seniors, and $5 for students, and at the following ticket outlet locations: Buehlers Fresh Foods in Dover and New Philadelphia, Village Pharmacy in Sugarcreek, and The Welcome Center (CVB) across from the New Philadelphia Court House.
Tickets can also be ordered online. No online sales the day of concert. More information or season brochures may be requested by phoning 330-477-6153 or 330-364-1843. Ticket and concert information is also available at www.TuscarawasPhilhar monic.org.
