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Festival Of Voices 2003, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus
Festival Of Voices 2003, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus
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Welcome to the first Festival Of Voices. It is our goal to make the Festival Of Voices an annual showcase concert to feature the wonderful GALA choruses from the Northeast USA and Canada, and to build community between GALA choruses and other local musical performance ensembles. To this end we are pleased to welcome the Cayuga Chimes Women's Barbershop Chorus as our local guest chorus. Out Loud Chorus is a member chorus in the Gay and Lesbian Association Of Choruses, Inc. (GALA) which has over 200 member choruses with over 10,000 active musicians world-wide. The motto of GALA is Our …
Of Sweet Harmony, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus
Of Sweet Harmony, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus
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A concert of music about music was the theme proposed for tonight's program, with a title taken from the lyric beauty of Act V of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. The scene describes the joys of listening to music and describes someone who is unable to enjoy music as "fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; the motions of his spirits are as dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus; let no such man be trusted."
Sounds Of Summer, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus
Sounds Of Summer, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus
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Sumer Is Icumen is one of the oldest written down melodies in the English language and originally was an Easter carol (Yes, there are carols for Easter, Lent, summer, harvest as well as Christmas). The original manuscript, now in the British museum, was transcribed by a Benedictine monk in 1226. The Easter words have long been forgotten, and the tune is now forever associated with summer. It is an ingenious bit of writing with an unmistakably English quality to it. Benjamin Britten incorporated it into the finale of his Spring Symphony where it makes a stunning conclusion to the work.
Music From The Heart, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus
Music From The Heart, Buffalo Gay Men's Chorus
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"You'll Never Walk Alone" from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel and he great Quaker hymn "How Can I Keep From Singing" represent our response to the nightmarish events that occurred in our nation on September 11th. It was a significant date for the chorus, as it was the first rehearsal; rather than cancel after two years of planning and struggling, it was decided to go on and remember those who had perished in the terrorist attacks on that day. The Quakers, or Friends, are a nonviolent peace loving, pacifist religious group and this is their greatest hymn.