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U.S. PREMIERE OF TÕNU KÕRVITS' MOORLAND ELEGIES

  • Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall 57th Street and Seven Avenue New York New York (map)

National Concerts presents the U.S. premiere of Estonian composer and NC's composer-in-residence Tõnu Kõrvits’ Moorland Elegies. Dr. Gregory Fuller leads the University of Southern Mississippi Southern Chorale and Symphony Orchestra in this featured performance. Opening the concert, Dr. Brandon Williams will conduct The Voorhees Choir from Rutgers University in a dynamic program of music set to text by all-women titled, In Her Words.

PROGRAM

JOCELYN HAGEN  Moon Goddess

DAVID BRUNNER  All I Was Doing Was Breathing

ANDREA CLEARFIELD  The Shape of My Soul

COLIN BRITT New Work (World Premiere) 

J. DAVID MOORE  Will The Circle Be Unbroken

BARBER Adagio for Strings 

TÕNU KÕRVITS  Moorland Elegies

PERFORMERS

The University of Southern Mississippi Southern Chorale
Gregory Fuller, Conductor
The University of Southern Mississippi Symphony Orchestra
Michael Miles, Conductor
The Voorhees Choir at Rutgers University
Brandon Williams, Conductor

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