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Berklee Performance Center Concerts

  

SPRING 1990

THANK YOU, JESUS—The Berklee Reverence Gospel Ensemble per-
forms contemporary gospel selections from a variety of artists. Directed
by Lori Roberts with faculty advisors Orville Wright and Walter Beasley,
this program will feature an original composition by Roberts and

works by Walt Whitman, C.C. Winan, the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir,
Alvin Bridges and the Reverend Clay Evans.

BI-VOCALS-VOCAL SUMMIT/VOCAL JAZZ ENSEMBLE —An eve-
ning of vocal jazz by two of the school’s top ensembles will open with the
“vocal impressionism” of the nine-piece a cappella group Vocal Summit
under the direction of faculty vocalist Bob Stoloff. An eclectic program
of improvisation and adaptations of classical works by Mozart, Bach

and Gabrielli will be performed. In the second half, faculty vocalist

April Arabian presents the 12-voice, four-piece instrumental Vocal Jazz
Ensemble specializing in contemporary jazz compositions by Count Basie,
Charlie Parker, Richie Cole and others with arrangements by Take Six,
Gene Puerling and April Arabian.

 

THE BERKLEE CONCERT CHOIR/THE BERKLEE CONCERT
WIND ENSEMBLE — Faculty vocalist Anne Peckham directs the 40-voice
Berklee Concert Choir performing selections by Mozart, Haydn, and
faculty composer Jeronimus Kacinskas, as well as American spirituals.
Then, the Berklee Concert Wind Ensemble presents contemporary music
including “Voice from the Deep Sea” by Yuzuru Sadashige, the winner of
the 1990 Composition Competition and a Mozart flute concerto played
by James Wallace, the winner of the Concerto Competition. For the grand
finale of this concert, the Concert Choir will join the Wind Ensemble for
a piece by Anthony lannaccone entitled “Walt Whitman Song) featuring
as soloists faculty members Sharon Brown and Anne Peckham as well as
tenor Kenneth Goodman and bass Kenneth Mayer.