Washington Men's Camerata Present Songs of the Sea June 14, 2008

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Washington Men’s Camerata Sets Sail Songs of the Sea

Enjoy a program of sea shanties, pirate songs, hornpipes and ballads, featuring the rich, warm sounds of male chorus singing at its finest.

Washington, D.C. — The Washington Men’s Camerata, Music Director Frank Albinder, the Annandale High School Men’s Ensemble under the musical direction of Carleen Dixon, and Mark Vogel, Camerata accompanist, will offer Songs of the Sea, on Saturday, June 14, 2008, 7:30 PM, in the Terrace Theater of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Tickets are $30 and are available from The Kennedy Center box office or by phone: 202-467-4600.
Songs of the Sea, the Camerata’s final concert of its 2007-08 season, will include familiar favorites like "What Shall We Do With the Drunken Sailor?" “The Water is Wide” and “Shenandoah,” along with sea chanties, pirate songs and hornpipes to satisfy the inner sailor in all of us. Featured works include “Sea Fever” by Amy Beach and “No me llevéis al mar” by Knut Nystedt, along with music by Benjamin Britten, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert and Ralph Vaughan Williams.

The mission of the Washington Men’s Camerata is to perform and preserve the heritage of men’s choral music by offering concerts of the highest artistic quality to the widest possible audience, helping to educate young people about classical music, collaborating with other arts organizations, encouraging composers to write music for male chorus, and preserving threatened repertoire through The Demetrius Project – the National Repository Library of Men’s Choral Music.

For more information about the Camerata, visit: www.camerata.com.

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