STAR SPANGLED SPECTACULAR
WHEN: Saturday, June 27, at 8:00 PM
WHERE: UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 50 South Park Place on the Green in Morristown
TICKETS: $15.00 for students 18 and under, $20.00 for seniors and $25.00 for General Admission.
For more information or to order tickets, call 973-998-7239 or visit www.morrischoralsociety.org.
The 65-voice Morris Choral Society concludes their 43rd season on with “Star Spangled Spectacular,” a celebration of great American patriotic music. The concert will include works by Irving Berlin, Randall Thompson and Joyce Kilmer.
In celebration of the conclusion of the yearlong 350th birthday party of the state, the Morris Choral Society’s men’s chamber group, Express Male, will be featured along with guest speaker Suzanne Key Boyle Hermann, a descendant of Francis Scott Key, the composer of our National Anthem which celebrated its 200th Anniversary in 2014. The members Express Male are John Collins of Raritan, Bud Leppard of Morristown, Chip Wood of Basking Ridge, Albert Perkins of Morris Plains, Wayne Walters of Parsippany who founded MCS forty-two years ago and is still its resident conductor, and Rob Walters of Long Valley. Ken Rapp of Morristown is the accompanist for the group and the chorus.
The Chorus will perform Peter Wilhousky’s famous version of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” William Billing’s “Chester,” Randall Thompson’s “Frostiana” and passages from “Testament to Freedom,” Irving Berlin’s “Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor,” Joyce Kilmer’s “Trees,” and the premiere of “Our Lady of the Harbor” by Betsy Bramhall and Audrey Schultz.
(Image: Artistic Director Wayne Walters of Parsippany will conduct the Morris Choral Society. Photo courtesy of Morris Choral Society)
