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Neponset Choral Society
presents
Spring Concert 2007

Unheard Voices - Works by Women Composers

featuring

Let's Touch the Sky

(three poems for chorus, flute, oboe & bassoon)

by

Louise Talma
(text by e.e. cummings)

The second concert of our 58th season will be held in April 2007. This concert will highlight the works of women composers and will feature Louise Talma's 1952 composition,
"Let's Touch the Sky"
(three poems for chorus, flute, oboe & bassoon).

Joining the 60-voice chorus will be several high school students, sponsored by the Sharon Credit Union through the Young Artist Performance Program, a program of the NCS.

Anyone interested in singing this concert with us should attend one of our open rehearsals:
January 8 and 15, 2007
or contact
(508-261-7136) or (781-784-3674) for more information.

Rehearsals are held on Mondays from 7:30 -10 p.m. at St. Mark's Church in Foxboro.

(Directions to St. Mark's - Map of the area)

Program

Composer Work
Loiuse Talma
(1906 - 1996)

on text by E.E. Cummings (1894 - 1962)		 Let's Touch the Sky
  1. Anyone lived in a pretty how town
  2. Love is more thicker than forget
  3. Let's Touch the Sky
Lili Boulanger
(1893 - 1918)		 Hymne au Soleil
Emma Lou Diemer
(1927 - )		 Madrigals Three
  1. Come, O Come, My Life's Delight
  2. Daybreak
  3. It Was a Lover and His Lass
Clara Schumann
(1819 - 1896)		 Drei gemischte Chöre
(nach Gedichten von Emanuel Geibel)
  1. Abendfeier in Venedig
  2. "Vorwärts"
  3. Gondoliera
Alice Parker
(1925 - )		 Vive L'Amour
(NCS Men's Chorus)
Alice Parker
(1925 - )		 Elinor Wylie: Incantations
(NCS Women's Chorus)
  1. Incantation
  2. Nameless Song
  3. Fair Annet's Song
  4. Madman's Song
Directions to St. Marks

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