{"id":1583,"date":"2008-11-12T12:00:39","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T17:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesthisweek.wordpress.com\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:45:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:45:19","slug":"ceremony-of-carols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2008\/11\/12\/ceremony-of-carols\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates Choir to perform Britten&#039;s Ceremony of Carols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/12\/72choir6241_img.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"251\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/12\/72choir6241_img-400x251.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"John Corrie\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Directed by John Corrie, the Bates College Choir performs Benjamin Britten&#8217;s popular <em>Ceremony of Carols<\/em> in concerts at 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 15 and 16, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n<p>Admission is free, but tickets are required. For more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or this <a href=\"mailto:olinarts@bates.edu\">olinarts@bates.edu<\/a>.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x156696.xml\">Corrie<\/a> is the artistic director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mainemusicsociety.org\/\">Maine Music Society<\/a> and a member of the college music faculty. He has directed the Bates choir since 1986.<\/p>\n<p>The choir&#8217;s program also includes Vivaldi&#8217;s <em>Gloria<\/em> and <em>Das Cartas<\/em>, a piece by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x71998.xml\">Hiroya Miura<\/a> of the Bates music faculty.<\/p>\n<p>An English composer and conductor, Britten wrote his paean to the Christmas season in March 1942, during a five-week voyage across the North Atlantic as he returned to England from America. He originally created the work as a series of unrelated songs and later organized it into the present 11-movement piece.<\/p>\n<p>Set to a sparing musical fabric of harp and voices, the Middle English texts come from <em>The English Galaxy of Shorter Poems<\/em> and are, for the most part, of 15th- and 16th-century origin.<\/p>\n<p>The work was first sung by the Morriston Boys&#8217; Choir, conducted by Britten, in London in December 1943.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Directed by John Corrie, the Bates College Choir performs Benjamin Britten&#8217;s popular Ceremony of Carols in concert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,133,32,17],"tags":[1315,4188,4759,6135,6889,9087],"class_list":["post-1583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-creativity","category-maine-and-new-england","category-partners-public","tag-bates-college-choir","tag-hiroya-miura","tag-john-corrie","tag-music-tag","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89149,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/89149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}