Grace and Spiritus Chorale Announces Auditions for Spring 2012 of its Anniversary Season

Grace & Spiritus Chorale of Brooklyn is welcoming new singers for its 35^th anniversary season in 2011-2012. All interested singers are invited to schedule an audition on January 25th or February 1st. The ensemble is a community chorus based in Brooklyn Heights comprised of singers from all over Brooklyn who share a love of choral singing. The 75-member ensemble is committed to serving the wider Brooklyn community by presenting various traditions of choral music. Concerts include well known and little-known masterpieces of choral literature from Early Music to Contemporary composers.  The Chorale rehearses Wednesday evenings from 7:00-9:30 in Brooklyn Heights.

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January 20 - 22, 2012 Concert "Transforming Traditions" Note New Venue: Plymouth Church for Saturday, January 21 Concert

Grace & Spiritus Chorale of Brooklyn will perform three concerts on January 20, 21, 22, 2012.

Under the direction of Music Director Jason Asbury, the concerts, "Transforming Traditions," begin with the composer, Giacomo Carissimi, a founder of the oratorio. We will perform Jephte, Carissimi’s most developed work of this new form. Next, we move to the present day, performing The Beatitudes, by composer Arvo Part. We will conclude with three American Spirituals and the Chichester Psalms, by Leonard Bernstein, composed in 1964-1965.

At 7 pm on January 20th, we will perform at the Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church, 85 South Oxford Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn; at 7 pm on Saturday, January 21, we will perform at Plymouth Church, 57 Orange Street between Hicks & Henry Street, Brooklyn Heights. We will perform at All Saint's Episcopal Church for the first time at 4 pm, on Sunday, January 22nd. All Saint's Church is located at 286-88 Seventh Avenue at Seventh Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn.

Websites are: www.lapcbrooklyn.org, www.plymouthchurch.org, www.allsaintsparkslope.com for info/directions.

Tickets: $15.00 Adults, Seniors, Students, $12.00

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Grace and Spiritus Chorale Announces Auditions for its 35th Season

Grace & Spiritus Chorale of Brooklyn is welcoming new singers for its 35th anniversary season in 2011-2012. All interested singers are invited to schedule an audition during the month of September. The ensemble is a community chorus based in Brooklyn Heights comprised of singers from all over Brooklyn who share a love of choral singing. The 75-member ensemble is committed to serving the wider Brooklyn community by presenting various traditions of choral music. Concerts include well known and little-known masterpieces of choral literature from Early Music to Contemporary composers. The Chorale rehearses Wednesday evenings from 7:00-9:30 in Brooklyn Heights.

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Grace and Spiritus Announces New Music Director for 35th Anniversary Season

Jason AsburyGrace & Spiritus Chorale of Brooklyn is pleased to announce the appointment of our new Music Director, Jason Asbury, beginning with our 35th anniversary season in 2011-2012. Asbury currently teaches on the faculty at Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn Heights, and has served as artistic director of various choral ensembles and choral festivals. He is Director of Music at Prospect Presbyterian Church in Maplewood, New Jersey. “Choral music is an art form that has the power to express the human experience, create community and transcend cultural barriers. I look forward to leading this ensemble in Brooklyn- one of the most dynamic communities in the world,” says Asbury.

We will begin our 2011-2012 Season with a performance on September 11, 2011 at Saint Ann’s Church, Brooklyn Heights. The program will include a new work by the British composer Julian Grant, entitled “In a Fog - Remember.” Grant’s music is set to two poems written by Brooklyn poet Anne Pierson Wiese. The chorus commissioned the piece with the theme of remembrance to commemorate the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001.

In January of 2012, we will perform a concert with the theme: Transforming Traditions, beginning with the composer, Giacomo Carissimi, a founder of the oratorio. We will perform Jephte, Carissimi’s most developed work of this new form. Next, we move to the present day, performing the Beatitudes, by living composer Arvo Part. Finally, we will present the Chichester Psalms, by Leonard Bernstein, composed in 1964-1965.

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