BATAVIA — Travel across the cosmos with the Genesee Chorale as it serenades the audience from star to star.
“The entire idea of the concert as well as the title was taken from a quote I read from Marcel Proust,” said Ric Jones, director for Genesee Chorale. “He said that artists and composers offer us the ‘...only true voyage ... which [is] not to visit strange lands, but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred eyes, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we do, with great artists. With artists like these, we really do fly from star to star.’”
Jones said the Chorale’s Dec. 10 concert will explore stars in three ways; as a celestial body, as a metaphor, and as a celebration of the star of Christmas.
The concert will have the most diverse selections of songs that the Genesee Chorale has performed in quite some time. The group will sing classical selections such as Haydn’s “The Heavens Are Telling” from Creation, Gospel selections such as William Dawson’s “Behold the Star,” traditional holiday songs such as “Cold December Flies Away,” “O Holy Night,” and “It Came Upon A Midnight Clear,” and more contemporary choral works by John Rutter, Kyle Pedersen, and Daniel Elder.
Featured soloists will include Genesee Chorale members Amanda Konopa, Fran Thomas, Barbara Galliford, and Eric Wood.
The Genesee Chorale will also be featuring Lisa Toth as violin soloist on three selections.
The concert, about an hour in length with a brief intermission, is scheduled for 4 p.m. Saturday at St. James Episcopal Church, 405 East Main St. in Batavia.
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