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Join VOICES i n September for their 25th Anniversary Concert Season!

By Elisabeth Bonasera
Singers from the Princeton area and Bucks County, PA, are invited to join VOICES for an exciting new concert season! Tenor and basses are especially needed, but openings are available in all voice parts, as well as in Sotto Voce, the chamber chorus. Basic music reading skills are required, in addition to vocal talent (developed or yet to be developed), and a passion for singing.
Auditions will be held on Wednesday, August 29, from 4:30 to 6:30 pm at Music Together, 225 Pennington-Hopewell Rd (Rte 654), Hopewell, NJ 08525. Other times are available by appointment. Singers interested should contact the audition coordinator, Sandy Duffy, at 609-799-2211, or write to [email protected]
 
VOICES’ 25th Anniversary Season includes “O Magnum Mysterium: Christmas Mysteries Expressed in Music”, including 9th century Gregorian chant, several baroque pieces with chamber orchestra, and Mendelssohn’s “There Shall A Star from Jacob Come Forth” on December 8-9; “The Year 1887” on March
9-10, with works by Brahms, Debussy, and Gilbert & Sullivan premiered in that year; “Tempo Flux—Time Passing, Time Standing Still,” with the Princeton Area Homeschool Choir on May 18, with music by
Michael Tippett, John Farmer, Stephen Chatman; and a 25th Anniversary Gala event in June to close the season. Rehearsals are held on Monday evenings from 7:30 to 9:45 pm at Music Together in Hopewell,
NJ and will start again on September 10.
VOICES provides outstanding performance opportunities at an unusually high artistic level for community singers. Its repertoire ranges from Renaissance to contemporary, from spirituals and show music to the sacred and classic. In addition to singing the world’s greatest choral music, VOICES offers singers the opportunity to develop an understanding of vocal technique, music history, and performance style.
VOICES also offers two unique outreach programs: interactive concerts at assisted living facilities and an
Annual Song Writing Contest for Children ages 5-12. In addition, solo, duet, and ensemble opportunities
are possible at the outreach concerts and in VOICES’ special events, such as at the Open Mic Night to
be held at the end of October, or at the 25th Anniversary Gala event next June.  
For further information on VOICES Chorale, please visit www.VOICESChorale.org, or subscribe to
VOICES’ Newsletter at www.enewsarcdhive.com/VOICES.
                                                                         
VOICES programs are made possible in part by the Mercer County Cultural and Heritage Commission through funding from the Mercer County Board of Chosen Freeholders, and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts/Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment of  the Arts.