Joe Miller will conduct the 220-voice Westminster Symphonic Choir and organist Eric Plutz in a performance of James MacMillan’s Cantos Sagrados and Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem on Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. in the Princeton University Chapel. Learn more at rider.edu/arts.
The Westminster Symphonic Choir is a familiar performer on the concert stages of New York and Philadelphia, but its concerts in Princeton are few and far between. The Princeton area will have a rare opportunity to hear the 220-voice ensemble perform two choral masterworks on Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 7:30 p.m. in the Princeton University Chapel.
Conducted by Joe Miller and joined by Princeton University Organist Eric Plutz, the Choir will perform James MacMillan’s Cantos Sagrados and Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem. One of MacMillan’s most powerful works, Cantos Sagrados sets poems by Ariel Dorfman and Ana Maria Mendosa on the subject of political repression in Latin America, combined with traditional religious texts in Latin. The work calls for a virtuoso organist and a nimble choir that is able to move from agitated speech-like violence to rapt meditation.
Composed of students at Westminster Choir College of Rider University, the Westminster Symphonic Choir has recorded and performed with major orchestras under virtually every internationally known conductor of the last 80 years. Recognized as one of the world’s leading choral ensembles, the choir has sung more than 400 performances with the New York Philharmonic alone.
In addition to this performance, its 2015-2016 season includes performances of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and Jacques Lacombe and with the Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Simon Rattle, and Handel’s Messiah with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Jane Glover and Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
Joe Miller is conductor of two of America’s most renowned choral ensembles: the Westminster Choir and the Westminster Symphonic Choir. He is also director of choral activities at Westminster Choir College of Rider University and artistic director for choral activities for the renowned Spoleto Festival USA.
Eric Plutz has begun his second decade as university organist at Princeton University.
Tickets for this performance are $20 for adults and $15 for students and seniors. To order, call (609) 921-2663 or go to rider.edu/arts.
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