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Chord Society
Concert Sloted
A Bicentennial Celebration
Concert, one of a series, will
be presented by members of
College of The Albemarle’s
choral organizations
Tuesday at 8 P.M. in Christ
Episcopal Church.
Selections will be of
considerable historical
significance and influence in
the development of our
nation’s music. '
Though limited to
Christmas music performed
in America just prior to,
during and shortly after the
revolution, the program will
include several “firsts” in
American music
composition and
performance.
Many hours of research
and travel were involved in
selections for the concert
through the cooperation of
music division chiefs of the
N.Y. Public Library,
Library of Congress, Dr..
Frank Campbell, Dr.
William Lichtenwanger,
COA librarian Don Lee and
Dan Webb, local manager of
J. C. Penny Company,
whose foundation donated
several music scores.
The opening number is the
first American version of a
small parish church anthem
from England as sung in
New England churches dur
ing the great religious
awakening period (1734-91).
Adopoted also by the newer
Methodist and Baptist
churches whose
missionaries carried it to
the Southland, this
evangelical kind of music
became a basic ingredient
in the rise of the livelier kind
of Negro spiritual.
A fugal tune setting from
“The New Egnland Psalm
Singer” by William Billings
(1746-1800) which follows
represents beginning
attempts at independent
voice choral writing in this
country. Billings also wrote
a number of patriotic songs
supporting the cause of the
American Revolution.
An air for soprano, flute
and organ from an Advent
Cantata by J. S. Bach,
copied by Rev. Immanuel
Mitschmann for the
B«hleham, Pa., Morvaian
Church Choir in 1768, is the
first example of cantata
music sung in America. This
will be followed by
selections from the
Christmas portion of
Handel’s “Messiah”. The
Messiah is the first oratorio
music heard in America and
was performed during
December, 1770 in concerts
presented at N. Y. City’s Old
Trinity Church and by the
Bethlehem Collegium
Musicum (Musical Society).
Christmas anthems by
composers identified with
the Moravian Church
settlement of Salem, N. C.,
which will conclude the
program, represent the first
concerted music (for voices
and orchestral instruments)
composed and performed in
America.
The first one by Johannes
Herbst (1735-1812) was
written for soloist, chorus
and string orchestra. Like
many of the early American
Moravian composers,
Herbst was a minister and
became bishop of the
Southern Province
Churches shortly before his
death in Salem.
The closing anthem by the
best-schooled of the 18th
Century American
composers, J. F. Peter
(1746-1813), was composed
for solo, chorus and an
orchestra of classic
symphony proportions, the
first vocal music with full
orchestra accompaniment
written in America. While at
Salon (1779-89), Peter also
produced the first chamber
music composed by an
American, six quintets for
string instruments.
Solo passages for the
concert, directed by Dr.
Clifford Blair, will be
performed by Gwen Bell,
Pattie Chappell, Norma
Dirom, Melvin Jones,
Harold Knight, Pamela
Matthews, Mary Millard,
Betty Miller, Julia
Pritchard, Gene Sawyer and
William Thorn with Kathryn
Painter, flutist and The Rev.
Donald Downing at the
organ.
The people of the
Albemarle will have the
opportunity to make these
American music concerts a
part of their own
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