The Collegiate Chorale Presents WE REMEMBER THEM 3/10

The Collegiate Chorale presents the concert We Remember Them: Choral Music from the Camps and the Ghettos, hosted by Cantor Angela Warnick Buchdahl, featuring pianist Kenneth Bowen and conducted by James Bagwell on Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 7pm at Central Synagogue, 652 Lexington Avenue at 55th Street, NYC. Single tickets start at $25 and are available online at www.collegiatechorale.org, or by phone at (646) 202-9623.

From within the camps and ghettos of the Holocaust came a great deal of music, passed along secretly and embraced by the entire community. For obvious reasons, much of it was choral, and included songs of great power, depth, and beauty. Maestro Bagwell will lead The Collegiate Chorale in a program entitled We Remember Them. The evening will consist of choral works by composers who perished in the Holocaust, alongside works by contemporary composers who wrote to sustain the memory of all who suffered in the camps and ghettos. Interspersed among the choruses will be letters and readings by Cantor Buchdahl and Maestro Bagwell. The concert will be held in the magnificent sanctuary of Central Synagogue.

The program follows:
Introduction and Reading by Cantor Buchdahl
Dremlen Feygl, arr. Joshua Jacobs
A Child's Journey, Michael Horvit
An Accidental Meeting
I Once Had a Friend
There Are No Stars in the Sky
Reading by James Bagwell
Ashrei Hagafrur, Lawrence Avery
Reading by Cantor Buchdahl
Tsen Brider, Choral Arrangment, Joshua Jacobson
Even When God is Silent, Michael Horvit
Introduction and Reading by James Bagwell
Bachuri Le'an Tisa, Gideon Klein
Three Yiddish Songs for Men's Chorus, Viktor Ullmann
Three Yiddish Songs for Women's Chorus, Viktor Ullmann
Two Partisan Songs, arr. Paul Epstein
Reading by Cantor Buchdahl
Ani Maamin, arr. Erwin Jospe

The Collegiate Chorale's 69th season continues with Something Wonderful - A Night of Broadway with Deborah Voigt, conducted by Ted Sperling, on May 19, 2011 at 7pm at Carnegie Hall. Deborah Voigt will be joined by featured guest artist Paulo Szot. The company's 2010/2011 Season began with Brahms' Alto Rhapsody, Op. 53 and A German Requiem at Carnegie Hall in October and continued with Knickerbocker Holidayin January at Alice Tully Hall.

Single tickets for all concerts can be purchased by calling The Collegiate Chorale at (646) 202-9623 or by visiting www.collegiatechorale.org.

For more information, visit www.collegiatechorale.org.

Angela Warnick Buchdahl was invested as a cantor in 1999 and also ordained as a rabbi in 2001 from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR) in New York where she was a Wexner Graduate fellow. Prior to her appointment as cantor at Central Synagogue, Cantor Buchdahl served as associate rabbi/cantor at Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, N.Y. Born in Korea to a Jewish American father and a Korean Buddhist mother, Cantor Buchdahl is the first Asian American to be ordained as cantor or rabbi in North America. She earned her B.A. in Religious Studies from Yale University where she was active in religious life on campus and performed frequently with her a capella group. Cantor Buchdahl has been nationally recognized for her innovations in leading services and has served as faculty for the Wexner Heritage Foundation and for the Union for Reform Judaism (URJ) Kallot programs. She serves on the Board of the Multiracial Jewish Network and regularly teaches and writes on the topic of diversity within the Jewish community.

Music Director James Bagwell maintains an active schedule throughout the United States as a conductor of choral, operatic, and orchestral music. He has recently been named Principal Guest Conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra in New York and is Director of the Music Program at Bard College. At Bard SummerScape, he has led numerous theatrical works, most notably Copland's The Tender Land, which received unanimous praise from The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Opera News. He frequently appears as guest conductor for orchestras around the country and abroad, including the Jerusalem Symphony, Tulsa Symphony, and the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra. He has also prepared The Concert Chorale of New York for performances with the American Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Mostly Mozart Festival, broadcast nationally in 2006 on Live from Lincoln Center. He has trained choruses for a number of major American and international orchestras and worked with noted conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Michael Tilson Thomas, Louis Langrée, Leon Botstein, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Raymond Leppard, James Conlon, Jesús López-Cobos, Erich Kunzel, Leon Fleischer, and Robert Shaw.

The mission of The Collegiate Chorale, led by Music Director James Bagwell, is to enrich its audiences through innovative programming and exceptional performances of a broad range of vocal music featuring a premier choral ensemble. Founded in 1941 by the legendary conductor Robert Shaw, The Chorale has established a preeminent reputation for its interpretations of the traditional choral repertoire, vocal works by American composers, and rarely heard operas-in-concert, as well as for commissions and premieres of new works by today's most exciting creative artists. The many guest artists with whom The Chorale has performed in recent years include: Bryn Terfel, Stephanie Blythe, Nathan Gunn, Kelli O'Hara, Victoria Clark, Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson, and Deborah Voigt. Last season's highlights included the world premiere two-act concert version of Ricky Ian Gordon's opera The Grapes of Wrath at Carnegie Hall. In addition to The Chorale's presentations, the chorus is performing in five programs during the American Symphony Orchestra's 2010-11 season, will return to Verbier in the summer of 2011, and will perform with the Israel Philharmonic in Salzburg and Israel in July 2012.