Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Texas Boys Choir hosts world-renowned Westminster Choir

By Pegasus News wire

FORT WORTH, TX --The Texas Boys Choir will host the world-renowned Westminster Choir for a performance during Westminster’s Texas tour Friday, January 18, 2008. The Sun is Daily New and Old will be performed at the Mary D. & F. Howard Walsh Fine Arts Center on campus at the Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts located at 3901 S Hulen St. at 7:30 p.m. The program will include: "When David Heard" (Thomas Weelkes), "A Child’s Prayer" (James MacMillian), "An die Heimat, Op. 64" (Johannes Brahms), "Lucis Creator optime" (Vytautas Miskinis), and "Loch Lomond" (Jonathan Quick). The Texas Boys Choir will also perform during this special one-night event. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students. For tickets and more information, visit texasboyschoir.org or call 817.924.1482.

Setting the standard for choral excellence for 80 years, the Westminster Choir is composed of students at Westminster Choir College of Rider University in Princeton, N.J. It has been the chorus-in-residence for the Spoleto Festival USA since 1977, performing both in concert and as the opera chorus. The Choir was also the chorus-in-residence for the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy, for 23 years.

The Choir's 2007-2008 season includes a series of performances of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic, a concert tour of Texas and performances in conjunction with the American Choral Directors’ Central Division Conference in Michigan as well as in New York and Princeton and at the 2008 Spoleto Festival U.S.A. Recent seasons have also included tours of the United Kingdom, Korea and Taiwan, as well as a series of performances at the Colmar (France) International Music Festival.

Praised by The New York Times for its “full-bodied, incisive singing,” the Westminster Choir also forms the core of the Westminster Symphonic Choir, which has performed and recorded with the leading conductors and orchestras of our time.

Source: Texas Boys Choir

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