This annual holiday concert by the South Bend, IN Chamber Concert Singers always draws a large crowd of Northwest Indiana residents. For this year’s concert we have commissioned a new work from American composer William McClelland. Acclaimed for his “vivid music,” “appealingly direct manner of expression” and “fertile contrapuntal imagination,” McClelland has written a wide variety of music in many styles and forms. His new piece for the SBCS, a setting of “Caedmon’s Hymn” in the translation by Burton Raffel, is the oldest English of known authorship, written in the early 7th century. There are only a very few settings of this text, and none using Raffel’s translation. For mixed choir and organ, the work will feature SBCS’s long-time accompanist, David Eicher. The concert will close, as usual, with our traditional, candlelit “Silent Night.”
Beautiful New Music for the Season
Featuring the world premiere of a new work by American composer William McClelland along with other new works for the season and familiar carols in new arrangements
Sunday, December 16, 2018
7:30 p.m.
Church of Our Lady of Loretto
Saint Mary’s College, South Bend, IN
www.southbendchambersingers.org/
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