Event

Carmina Burana

For their first collaboration since the Carnegie Hall debut in 2009, Deer Creek Chorale and guest singers from Harford Choral Society, two Towson Choirs and two children's choruses, will perform popular choral works with the Susquehanna Symphony Orchestra. Deer Creek Chorale director, Martha Banghart, and Maestro Bair have been working on this collaboration for two years and the groups are pleased to finally present such a concert to the community.

The concert will begin by the presentation of one of Mozart's very last works, his moving 'Ave Verum Corpus'. This short work, to be conducted by Martha Banghart, is for chorus and the orchestral strings only.

One of the most popular works of the 20th Century, Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, will be the main selection of the concert. The work is for a huge orchestra, massed choirs (including children's choirs), and three soloists. Audience members will recognize some of the music from television show sound tracks even though the name of the work might be new to them. The work is full of wonderful and memorable melodies while at the same time being very rhythmic in nature (using a large percussion section and two pianists!). Towson University soprano Teri Bickham, as well as Christopher Dudley, tenor, and Jeffrey Grayson Gates, baritone, will join the massed forces for these performances.