{"id":4065,"date":"2007-07-10T10:40:08","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T14:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2023-01-24T14:11:30","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T19:11:30","slug":"music-society-ensembles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2007\/07\/10\/music-society-ensembles\/","title":{"rendered":"MPBN to broadcast college, music society ensembles in Brahms&#039; Requiem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2007\/07\/corrie-conducts.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2007\/07\/corrie-conducts.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"John Corrie\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In March, two Bates musical ensembles joined two community ensembles in a first-of-its-kind performance of Johannes Brahms&#8217; masterful <em>A German Requiem.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 11, the stations of MPBN Radio will broadcast the concert on the <em>MaineStage<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0program.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The landmark musical event on March 31 featured some 260 musicians performing at Lewiston&#8217;s Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul. The concert was the first collaboration between the <a href=\"http:\/\/mainemusicsociety.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maine Music Society<\/a> and the college, both notable presences in Maine music. The link is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x29446.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">John Corrie<\/a>, of Lewiston, who has directed the Bates College Choir since 1986 and became artistic director of the music society last year.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the college choir, performing were the Bates College Orchestra, the music society&#8217;s Androscoggin Chorale and Maine Chamber Ensemble, soprano Bonnie Scarpelli and baritone Peter Allen &#8217;66. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x71998.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hiroya Miura<\/a>, of the Bates faculty, conducted the <em>Requiem,<\/em> and Corrie led the combined choirs, along with choral groups from local high schools, in two Brahms motets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March, two Bates musical ensembles joined two community ensembles in a first-of-its-kind performance of Johannes Brahms&#8217; masterful <em>A German Requiem<\/em>. At 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 11, the stations of MPBN Radio will broadcast the concert on the <em>MaineStage<\/em> program.<\/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":[11010,130,39,32,17],"tags":[1367,4188,4759,6096,6135,6889,9087],"class_list":["post-4065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-collaboration","category-event-highlights","category-maine-and-new-england","category-partners-public","tag-bates-college-orchestra","tag-hiroya-miura","tag-john-corrie","tag-mpbn","tag-music-tag","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065","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=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151194,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions\/151194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}