The Singing Hoosiers will begin the vacation season on a musical word with their conventional live performance, “Chimes of Christmas.” This 12 months, the live performance can even characteristic the vocal skills of IU’s African American Choral Ensemble and the modern vocal skills of the coed choral ensemble, NOTUS.
“Chimes of Christmas” can be carried out at 2 p.m. and seven:30 p.m. on Dec. 3. Scholar tickets begin at $11 and can be found on the IU Auditorium website.
NOTUS is directed by Dominick DiOrio, a professor of music on the Jacobs College of Music. He was invited to hitch on this conventional Christmas live performance by the director of the Singing Hoosiers, Chris Albanese.
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“That is the primary time NOTUS will collaborate with the Singing Hoosiers and the African American Choral Ensemble in a efficiency,” DiOrio stated. “We don’t usually have a Christmas live performance of our personal, so it’s good to have the ability to sing some music that’s of the season.”
DiOrio has established NOTUS as a vocal ensemble that performs modern classical works highlighting the variety of America. They’ll deliver this distinctive sound to the “Chimes of Christmas.”
“It’s not conventional music within the sense that they’re carols of hymns folks will know,” DiOrio stated. “These are items written in concerning the final 5 years.”
The key piece carried out within the live performance can be “The Ballad of the Brown King” by Margaret Bonds, which can be carried out by the Singing Hoosiers, NOTUS and the African American Choral Ensemble all collectively.
NOTUS will then carry out Richard Allain’s “The Magi’s Present,” adopted by a chunk composed by DiOrio himself titled “The Yuletide Carol.” Regardless of its title, DiOrio emphasised the nontraditional nature of the piece, which he stated was extra impressed by the pagan origins of the season.
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“I wished to get again to the thriller of the solstice,” DiOrio stated. “The darkest time of the 12 months and the weather of darkish and light-weight that come from it. The poet Kyle Conner wished to discover these themes as nicely and do one thing completely different.”
After the “Chimes of Christmas,” NOTUS will carry out Sarah Kirkland Snider’s “Mass for the Endangered” at 8 p.m. at Auer Live performance Corridor Feb. 7.
