Boston Choruses Set "LUX AETERNA" Tsunami Relief
Benefit for Friday, January 21st at Arlington Street Church
 More
than a dozen of Greater Boston's best professional and amateur choirs join in
benefit for Oxfam Asia Earthquake Fund - conductor Scott Allen Jarrett leads 150+
singers in Elgar's "Lux Aeterna" to close the program
BOSTON, MA - More than a dozen of Greater Boston's finest
professional and amateur choral ensembles will come together on Friday, January
21, 2005 at 8 pm at Arlington Street Church in Boston for a benefit concert in
memory of the vicitms of the South Asia tsunami disaster. 100% of the raised proceeds
will benefit Oxfam America's Asia Earthquake/Tsunami Relief Fund.
Called "Lux Aeterna: Choral Responses to the Tsunami Disaster," the
benefit concert represents the Greater Boston choral community's combined response
to this unfathomable natural disaster, and the Boston classical music community's
first area benefit concert for tsunami disaster relief. Vox Consort Executive
Director Stephen Marc Beaudoin is producing the concert in association with historic
Arlington Street Chuch, led by ASC Senior Minister Kim K. Crawford Harvie and
Music Director Miguel Felipe.
More than 150 voices will come together at Arlington Street Church on January
21st, with professional, amateur and community choruses from a range of communities
and representing a variety of styles and genres – early, romantic and contemporary
classical choral music (including works by Victoria, Byrd, Howells and Elgar)
will appear on the program alongside traditional and world musics.
The concert will enjoy a resounding finale when Back Bay Chorale Music Director
Scott Allen Jarrett conducts members from all of the participating choral ensembles,
plus guests from various other choruses in the region, in Edward Elgar's stunning
8-part "Lux Aeterna," based on the "Nimrod" movement of the
composer's popular "Enigma Variations."
"Lux Aeterna: Choral Responses to the Tsunami Disaster" features
fourteen Greater Boston choral ensembles, including (in alphabetical order): Back
Bay Chorale, Boston Choral Ensemble, Boston City Singers (children's chorus),
Cambridge Madrigal Singers, Cantilena, Cappella Clausura, Exsultemus, Halalisa
Singers, Musica Sacra, Oriana Consort, Sharing a New Song, Snug Harbor
Community Chorus, Voices Rising and Vox Consort.
Tickets, available at the door, are $25 suggested donation for general admission,
$100+ for special "Patron" seating. Arlington
Street Church is at 351 Boylston Street, Boston (MBTA Green line—Arlington
stop). More information available by calling 617-281-8569.
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