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Voces Novae et Antiquae introduces online ticket orders |
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| In connection with PayPal, Voces Novae et Antiquae now has a system for placing ticket orders online. We are now taking orders for our January concert A Twelfth Night Celebration: The Shaw-Parker Legacy. Go to our ticket order page at http://vocesnovaeantiquae.org/Ticket-Purchase.html to place a secure credit card order for your tickets. The tickets will be held for you at the box office. Our ticket prices, which have remained level for a number of years, have been raised this year, but only for purchases at the door. | |
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M The camaraderie and intimacy of singing beautiful music with excellent musicians has always drawn Molly to the best choral groups she could find. While working in Washington, she traveled with Paul Traver and the University of Maryland Chorus on an International Concert Tour for Peace in 1987, singing the Missa Solemnis with Antal Dorati in London, Dresden, Moscow and Berlin. Molly lived in New York for seven years, sang with the Regina Opera Company, and was the alto soloist for St. Francis Xavier Church in Park Slope, Brooklyn, before moving to St. Agnes Church as the full-time church organist when her daughter was born. She moved to Mt. Airy with her family in 1995, and directed the St. Madeleine Sophie Church Choir for 7 years before accepting her current position at St. Luke’s. For the past three years she has sung and played keyboard for the St. Mad Trio, a group specializing in original tunes about the environment and social and spiritual issues which got its start at St. Madeleine Sophie, and which includes her close friends (and permanent roadies) Jim Harris on guitar and Martha Michael on trumpet. The St. Mad Trio has played at many benefit events and parties, as well as at the World Café Live and the Folk Factory in Mt. Airy. “I had been here less than a year, when I heard about a small professional choral ensemble which was holding auditions down in South Philly. I’ll never forget my first rehearsal with Rob Ross and Voces Novae et Antiquae in that beautiful space at Fleisher Art Memorial—no piano, just pitches taken from the air and immediate, spontaneous music, (almost) fully formed on the first read-through. Singing with VNA is inspiring and educational, both from a technical and historical perspective, whether we are performing medieval settings by Hildegard or singing a Tina Davidson piece in Aztec. I look forward to my two hours a week with Rob and my colleagues, many of whom are music scholars in their own right. Singing with VNA has made me a better singer, a better director and a more sophisticated listener. Singing is ‘where my heart is, and there is my treasure.’” Molly Mahoney has a BA in English Literature from Duke University and lives the life of the Waltons in the mountains of Mt. Airy with her husband, David Breiner, Associate Professor of Architecture at Philadelphia University, two children, Theresa and Katie, and her father-in-law, Jerome. |
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Thanks to our supporters |
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| A big thanks from Voces Novae et Antiquae to Joe and Ginny Leonard, whose generous donation allows us to proceed with purchasing music for our Twelfth Night concerts. Another thanks to Diana Fertik for hosting a gathering at her home with the assistance of Richard Meyer, at which we introduced the VNA sound and concept to new audience members. | |
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ver the past few years I have found myself in performance situations outside Voces Novae et Antiquae where I have had the opportunity to sing a fair number of Robert Shaw/Alice Parker Christmas arrangements, almost all of which date from their second album of Christmas Hymns and Carols recorded for RCA in 1952. Having at one time largely dismissed many of these arrangements as too “vanilla,” age, experience and (hopefully) wisdom has given me a new appreciation for the simple elegance and craft these arrangements reveal.
olly Mahoney has been teased about her Kansas beginnings since she came to the East Coast in 1980. Her favorite question among all the Wizard of Oz remarks was, “Do you all live in black and white?” She has been a church musician since the nuns pulled her out of class to play the organ for funerals in 8th grade. Although she has been an organist, both in her current position as Music Director of St. Luke Catholic Church and school in Glenside, and around town as a free-lancer for weddings and funerals, her greatest joy has always been choral singing. “I learned that singing could take you all over the world when I joined the Duke Chorale and traveled by bus (traditionally known as “Pigs on Tour”) up and down the East Coast for spring break.”