On March 29, 30, and April 2, join Amare Cantare for a concert about remembrance, peace, and freedom. The centerpiece of the performance is Eleanor Daley’s Requiem for unaccompanied voices, an ethereal 7-movement work whose text combines liturgical Latin, English psalms and prayers, and original poetry by Carolyn Smart. The program also includes Hebrew folk songs, a set of African-American spirituals, and pieces by Schütz, Schein, and Lassus.
The performances take place on Sat., March 29 at 8:00 p.m., at St. Mary’s Church in Rochester; Sun., March 30, at 3:00 p.m., at Christ Church in Exeter; and Wed., April 2 at 7:30 p.m., at Holy Trinity Church in Newington.
General admission tickets are $12.00 at the door and $10.00 in advance. Students and seniors are $10.00 at the door and $8.00 in advance. Advance tickets may be purchased at Baldface Books, Dover, the Durham Book Exchange, Durham, Water Street Books, Exeter, and Serendipity, Portsmouth. For more information about Amare Cantare, visit their website at www.amarecantare.com or call (603) 664-5974.
Amare Cantare is an auditioned chamber chorus that strives for musical excellence in the performance of challenging and diverse repertoire. They seek to foster a vital arts community, to collaborate with other organizations, to provide opportunities for artistic fulfillment for our singers, and to share our love of music with our audiences. Since its creation in the late 1970s, Amare Cantare, which means, “to love to sing” in Italian, has been performing masterworks and intimate choral music from five centuries. Its 24 members come from all over the Seacoast, ranging from Kittery, ME, to Milton, NH.
