Above: The Midnight to Sunrise Heritage Chorale concert is coming up in less than two weeks.
The Heritage Chorale is returning to Southborough to perform their fall concert: Midnight to Sunrise. The choral group promotes:
A musical treat for an autumn afternoon, contrasting delights, including French Baroque composer Charpentier’s Midnight Mass for Christmas and contemporary Norwegian composer Gjeilo’s Sunrise Mass.
The concert will be held on Sunday, November 24th at St. Mark’s School.
The Heritage Chorale, conducted by “renowned Boston-area music director John Finney” describes itself as:
a nonprofit organization of accomplished singers dedicated to performing high quality choral music. We are committed to standards of excellence in our rehearsals and performances, and seek to inspire in ourselves and our Metrowest audience a greater love of music and community.
The website describes the fall concert:
This 83rd concert season begins with a strikingly different twosome: the Midnight Mass by the Baroque composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier and the Sunrise Mass by the contemporary Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo. The first, based almost entirely on French Christmas carol melodies (noëls), is joyous with a dance-like quality. The second features a double-chorus and string orchestra that create wondrous other-worldly choral and orchestral sounds.
On Facebook, the group shared more color on the two contrasting compositions:
An atmosphere of a night-time, light-filled holiday celebration–created within our program of contrasting delights, including French Baroque composer Charpentier’s Midnight Mass for Christmas. Visit HERITAGECHORALE.ORG for concert, venue, and advance purchase ticket discounts.
Translucent harmonies shimmer within our program of contrasting delights as we perform Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo’s Sunrise Mass. Visit HERITAGECHORALE.ORG for concert, venue, and advance purchase ticket discounts.
Although tickets are available at the door with, you may want to act now. There is a $5 discount through tomorrow, Thursday, November 14th. (Regular prices range from $10 – $25 based on age.) Click here to buy tickets or for more information.
The concert will be held in St Mark’s Putnam Family Arts Center. (Click here for the campus map.) On-site and off-site parking are both available. Off-site parking is at the Woodward School, 28 Cordaville Road.
