On Friday at 8 p.m., the Princeton University Chapel Choir with soloists and orchestra will perform in Carnegie Hall. Penna Rose, director of chapel music, will conduct.
The program features the music of Ralph Vaughan Williams, who, in the words of Scott D. Paulin, "aspired for his own music to have real effects on listeners in the world, whether to kindle a higher spirituality, or to move his audience toward the cause of peace."
The concert will open with the "Serenade to Music," a setting of the text from Act V of Shakespeare’s "The Merchant of Venice," and continue with Five Mystical Songs, with a text by George Herbert, with noted baritone David Arnold as soloist.
The concluding work will be "Dona Nobis Pacem," for which Vaughan Williams used a combination of sacred liturgy and modern poetry as his text.
Soprano Margaret L. Meyer, Class of ’05, and Mr. Arnold will join the choir and orchestra in this powerful setting of the ancient cry for peace.
