WQED FM 89.3 will present its annual broadcast of the Heinz Chapel Choir Holiday Concert on Wednesday, December 3 beginning at 7 p.m. The broadcast will include Jim Cunningham’s interview with newly appointed Heinz Chapel Choir Director Susan Rice. Download a copy of the 2014 program, …called by love and angels (pdf).
Please note that the Heinz Chapel Choir Holiday Concerts for December 5 and 7 are SOLD OUT.
Dr. Susan Rice and the Heinz Chapel Choir invite all faculty, staff, and students to the free Campus Holiday Concert at Heinz Chapel. This is the final dress rehearsal for the annual holiday concerts that begin on November 29. This year’s Heinz Chapel Choir Holiday Concert is titled …called by love and angels. The ensemble will sing music in seven languages by composers including Josquin, Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams, Ippolitov-Ivanov, and Alfred Burt.
The Heinz Chapel Choir will explore the theme of "Departures" through music selections that deal directly with physical and emotional leave-taking, as well as through repertoire that departs from our typical expectations, drawing from the Southern Harmony, ekphrastic, and oral traditions.
Heinz Chapel Choir will host three high school chamber choirs from the region in its annual Chamber Choir Festival: the Fox Chapel Madrigal Singers from Fox Chapel Area High School (Ben Murray, director), Peters Township Symphonic Choir from Peters Township High School (Ryan Perrotte, director), and the Seneca Valley Madrigal Singers from Seneca Valley Senior High School (Aaron Magill, director). Each guest choir will perform several a capella works ranging in style from Renaissance motets, to English madrigals, to jazz, including a signature work in a style of their choice.
Dr. Susan Rice leads this year’s Heinz Chapel Choir Holiday Concerts, titled …called by love and angels. The ensemble will sing music in seven languages by composers including Josquin, Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams, Ippolitov-Ivanov, and Alfred Burt.
Organist (and HCC alum) Steven Anisko once again joins the HCC in these concerts. For the organ interlude that precedes the traditional candlelight carol and window lighting, Ansiko will perform Dr. Robert Sutherland Lord’s “Meditation on a Polish Carol” in tribute to the late Professor of Music, Emeritus.
Dr. Susan Rice leads this year’s Heinz Chapel Choir Holiday Concerts, titled …called by love and angels. The ensemble will sing music in seven languages by composers including Josquin, Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams, Ippolitov-Ivanov, and Alfred Burt.
Organist (and HCC alum) Steven Anisko once again joins the HCC in these concerts. For the organ interlude that precedes the traditional candlelight carol and window lighting, Ansiko will perform Dr. Robert Sutherland Lord’s “Meditation on a Polish Carol” in tribute to the late Professor of Music, Emeritus.
Dr. Susan Rice leads this year’s Heinz Chapel Choir Holiday Concerts, titled …called by love and angels. The ensemble will sing music in seven languages by composers including Josquin, Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams, Ippolitov-Ivanov, and Alfred Burt.
Organist (and HCC alum) Steven Anisko once again joins the HCC in these concerts. For the organ interlude that precedes the traditional candlelight carol and window lighting, Ansiko will perform Dr. Robert Sutherland Lord’s “Meditation on a Polish Carol” in tribute to the late Professor of Music, Emeritus.
Dr. Susan Rice leads this year’s Heinz Chapel Choir Holiday Concerts, titled …called by love and angels. The ensemble will sing music in seven languages by composers including Josquin, Mendelssohn, Vaughan Williams, Ippolitov-Ivanov, and Alfred Burt.
Organist (and HCC alum) Steven Anisko once again joins the HCC in these concerts. For the organ interlude that precedes the traditional candlelight carol and window lighting, Ansiko will perform Dr. Robert Sutherland Lord’s “Meditation on a Polish Carol” in tribute to the late Professor of Music, Emeritus.
Join the Heinz Chapel Choir, Women's Choral Ensemble, and Men's Glee Club for a celebration of choral singing at Pitt.
This spring John Goldsmith brought his storied career as Heinz Chapel Choir Director and musicianship lecturer to an inspiring close. On a balmy Sunday afternoon, current faculty and students, University leadership, and many alumni of Heinz Chapel Choir flooded into Heinz Chapel to see Goldsmith lead the choir one last time. Once the chapel was full to overflowing, attendees walked across to Alumni Hall Auditorium where they enjoyed a live video stream of the concert.