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February 23, 2007
Choral Groups to Present "Share The Songs" Program
More than 75 children from schools in the region will participate in the Pennsylvania Academy of Music's “Share the Songs” Choral Festival on Saturday, March 24 at 7:00 p.m. at the First Reformed Church, 40 East Orange Street, in downtown Lancaster. Tickets, available at the door, are $5 for adults; children are admitted free of charge.
The “Share the Songs” choral festival brings together students from a variety of area schools who join with the Academy's own choir to present a varied program of multi-part music. This year, the guest conductor, Brian Winnie, will also be bringing students from his own school, Lower Macungie Middle School, to participate as well.
Winnie has created and works with eight choirs in the Lower Macungie Middle School where he teaches music. His choral program at Lower Macungie includes a choir for each grade level (6-8), a Treble Choir, Men's Choir, Mixed Grade Touring Choir, a 16-voice a cappella 8th grade choir, and a 6th Honors Choir. Winnie's choirs have attended numerous adjudications and have toured in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Virginia Beach.
The March 24 “Share the Songs” program will feature a variety of inspiring, upbeat, and reflective multi-part compostiions, including folk song and spiritual arrangements, love songs by Brahms, and “Salmo 150” by Ernani Aguiar, a well known Brazillian composer whose style is very rhythmic with rapid articulations.
The Pennsylvania Academy of Music is a non-profit pre-collegiate institution dedicated to the musical advancement of its students. Founded in 1990, the Academy attracts students from an immediate nine-county area as well as from around the world, who study disciplines ranging from instrumental, chamber music, orchestra, opera and vocal performance to music composition and theory, improvisation, accompanying ,jazz and recording. The Academy has a widely accomplished international faculty and is one of only 12 autonomous pre-collegiate music schools in the country accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music.
