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Pennsbury choirs to perform at Carnegie Hall
by Joan Hellyer Staff Writer, Monday, January 21, 2013
Pennsbury choir members will take the stage on Monday night at Carnegie Hall in New York City,
district officials said.
Members of the Pennsbury High School concert choir and Women’s Ensemble will join with the
Pennsbury Community Chorus to perform the United States premiere of “Songs of the Earth” by
Welsh composer Karl Jenkins, officials said.
Jenkins originally composed the work for the BBC Radio 3 and the BBC National Orchestra and
Chorus of Wales as part of the MUSIC NATION. A collaboration of the United Kingdom’s orchestral
and music making community, MUSIC NATION served as the first nationwide countdown event to the
London 2012 Olympic Festival.
The Pennsbury choirs will sing with the DCINY Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro
Jonathan Griffith in Carnegie Hall’s Isaac Stern Auditorium, officials said. Jenkins is expected to
attend the performance.
This is the third time since 2004 that a Pennsbury choir has performed at Carnegie Hall.
It also is the second time a Pennsbury choir has performed the U.S. premiere of a work by Jenkins.
The first was in 2009 when the choir performed “Te Deum” at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center.