Purchase Chorus - A Saint, a Poet, and a Dreamer: Musical Musings on Three Great Women

Monday, May 1, 7:30pm

Purchase College, Music Building, Recital Hall

Free and open to the public

David J. Recca, Conductor

Join us as we explore music inspired by history and literature’s three great women. Rarely heard works will include Samuel Barber’s setting of Emily Dickinson’s haunting “Let down the bars, O death,” Benjamin Britten’s other-worldly Hymn to St. Ceclia, and the ever-charming Three Choruses from Alice in Wonderland by mid-20^th century American composer, Irving Fine. This concert will feature vocal and instrumental soloists selected from the Conservatory of Music.

To all musicians, appear and inspire:
Translated Daughters, come down and startle
Composing mortals with immortal fire.