Rehearsals set the stage for annual winter concerts

The first of two music department concerts will open on Friday, December 13 at 7:30 p.m. in the Ruth King Theatre with sounds of the Chamber Singers, under the direction of Ted Whalen. The Chamber Singers, Milton’s select choir, will perform 9 pieces including William Byrd’s "Haec Dies" and Rachmaninoff’s "Bogoro ditse Devo" from Vespers.

The Milton Academy Orchestra, directed by Don Dregalla, will then take the stage to perform Edvard Grieg’s Piano Concerto in a minor; I Allegro molto moderato with a piano solo by Jonathan Magaziner ’03, Peer Gynt Suite (prelude, "Anitra’s Dance," "In the Hall of the Mountain King") and Tchaikovsky’s "Mother Ginger" from The Nutcracker.

On Sunday December 15 at 4:00 p.m. The Chamber Orchestra, Milton’s select orchestra, will open the second winter concert (Ruth King Theatre) with Mozart’s Overture to “The Impresario” K.486. The musicians, along with the Chamber Singers, will also perform "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," composed by Julia Carey ’04. This is the first performance of the complete orchestrated version of the piece. The Chamber orchestra will conclude with Camille Saint-Saens’s, Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso, featuring a violin solo by Jennifer Chang ’03, and Ralph Vaughan Williams’s, "Rhosymedre." The Class IV Chorus, conducted by Louise Mundinger, will perform, followed by the Glee Club singing Mozart’s "Ave Verum Corpus," Schubert’s Sanctus from "Deutsch Messe," Randall Thompson’s "Alleluia" and "Let My People Go," a spiritual arranged by Milton’s Ted Whalen.