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Brass Quintet & Counterpoint Chorus – Newport
VSO’s annual tour of festive brass and vocal music with Counterpoint Chorus returns to Newport for the holiday season. The evening includes carols such as Silent Night, Deck the Halls and The First Nowell, and a focus on compositions by Vermont composer Erik Nielsen alongside works of Moses Hogan, traditional tunes arranged by Robert De Cormier and John Rutter, and a world premiere by Music-COMP and Mount Mansfield Union High School student Sam Acus.
Conducted by Nathaniel G. Lew.
Performers
Shelagh Abate, Horn; Andrew Harms, Trumpet; Elizabeth Jewell, Trumpet; Matthew Wright, Trombone; Zachary Haas, Bass Trombone
The singers of Counterpoint Chorus
The Halcyon Chorale of St. Johnsbury
Tickets: free for ages 18 and under; $24 for ages 65 and up; and $28 for everyone in between, ages 19-64. Tax/ticketing fees in addition.
This concert is generously supported by the North Country Friends of the VSO and by Eleanor Long.