The Dessoff Choirs present, "Sing-In: Whitman and Frost" January 26, 2013

NEW YORK, NY - The Dessoff Choirs’ Mid-Winter Festival, WORD•PLAY, continues with Sing-In: Whitman and Frost
at the Immanuel Lutheran Church, 1296 Lexington Avenue. This communal sing-in invites participants to join Music Director, Christopher Shepard, and The Dessoff Choirs in exploring the marriage of text and music with two staples of the choral repertoire. Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem and Randall Thompson’s Frostiana are set to texts by the beloved American poets Walt Whitman and Robert Frost.

Dessoff’s second Mid-Winter Festival will be presented in various venues around New York City between January 15 and March 16. Dessoff’s Music Director Christopher Shepard says, “The basic premise behind the festival is that vocal music can be as much a literary art as it is a musical art.” The next event on February 7, Self-Portrait: Ricky Ian Gordon, is an exciting and intimate evening with composer Ricky Ian Gordon where he will perform his music and discuss his relationship with poetry and music. The festival continues with a public master class, Life of a Song: The Art of (Re)Writing on February 9, and closes with a A Night of Wonders featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Geraldine Brooks on March 15 and 16.

TICKETS: Single tickets: $10-15; children under 12 free for all programs. Order tickets online at dessoff.org.

PRESS TICKETS: For press tickets, artist bios or images, please contact Amy Laudicano: 212.874.7624,
[email protected].

Official Website: http://dessoff.org