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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the annual Choral Festival featuring Fredonia's Cam
 erata\, Chamber Choir\, and College Choir. Our guest conductor this year is
  Malcolm Merriweather.\n\nThis is a ticketed event: $8 general admission\; 
 students are free when they get a ticket in advance ($5 at the door)\n\n \n
 \nGRAMMY-nominated conductor Malcolm J. Merriweather is Director of the New
  York Philharmonic Chorus and Music Director of New York City’s The Dessoff
  Choirs and Orchestra. He holds the Tania León Endowed Chair in Music at Br
 ooklyn College.\n\nHighlights of his 2025–2026 season include preparing the
  New York Philharmonic Chorus for world premieres by David Lang (The Wealth
  of Nations) and Ellen Reid (Earth Between Oceans)\, singing the baritone r
 ole in Mark Campbell and Peter Boyer’s A Hundred Years On with The Philadel
 phia Orchestra and The Crossing\, and performing the title role in Frederic
 k with Music Worcester. Celebrating his tenth anniversary with the Dessoff 
 Choirs\, he conducts Adolphus Hailstork’s The World Called\, Bach’s Mass in
  B Minor with period orchestra\, Herbert Howells’s Requiem\, a reprise of T
 ania León’s It’s a journey\, and prepares the chorus for two appearances wi
 th Andrea Bocelli at Madison Square Garden.\n\nMerriweather is acclaimed fo
 r world premiere recordings of Margaret Bonds’s The Ballad of the Brown Kin
 g\, Credo\, and Simon Bore the Cross (AVIE Records). At the invitation of S
 olange Knowles\, he joined Saint Heron for Glory to Glory: A Revival of Dev
 otional Art with Voices of Harlem and The Clark Sisters. His ensembles have
  appeared at Carnegie Hall\, Lincoln Center\, Disney Concert Hall\, Westmin
 ster Abbey\, and before Pope Francis at the Vatican.\n\nSponsored in part b
 y the Carnahan-Jackson Fund of the Fredonia College Foundation
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LOCATION:Mason Hall\, Rosch Recital Hall
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SUMMARY:Fredonia Choral Festival
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URL:https://events.fredonia.edu/event/fredonia-choir-festival-260307
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