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Calendar Pick: Athens Choral Festival

Joseph Napoli

After Joseph Napoli, founder and former director and conductor of the Athens Master Chorale, had the privilege of conducting the Mozart Requiem at Carnegie Hall last year, he decided he wanted to bring the performance to Athens. He sent invitations to the singers who had been a part of that show—totaling 150 from 17 states around the country—and was able to recruit 70 of them for the performance. Their program includes Johannes Mozart’s “Solemn Vespers for a Confessor” and Dan Forrest’s “Lux: The Dawn From on High.” Mozart’s work, originally composed in 1780, is bright, melodic and exciting, while Napoli describes the much more recently composed Lux as “more personal, but with much contemplation and exultation, employing sweeping phrases and beautiful melodies.”

WHO: Athens Choral Festival
WHEN: Saturday, June 28, 8 p.m.
WHERE: Hodgson Concert Hall
HOW MUCH: $10.50 (children and students), $18

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