VoXX: Voice of Twenty presents annual winter series with four January 2024 concerts
VoXX: Voice of Twenty will present its annual winter series with four January 2024 concerts in Belfast, Phippsburg, Bangor, and Rockport. This year’s program theme is Winter Sun.
VoXX will welcome the New Year with a selection of sacred and secular pieces appropriate to the season and spanning many centuries, from the Gregorian chant Alma Redemptoris Mater to Music Director John Mehrmann's Eala Earendel, a modern piece with seventh-century lyrics.
Other offerings include two settings of Nunc Dimittis, by Henry Purcell and the contemporary composer Paul Smith; the rousing "O Radiant Dawn" by James MacMillan; another Alma Redemtoris Mater by Palestrina; Benjamin Britten's "A Boy was Born"; a lively "Fyer, Fyer," by Thomas Morley; and the heart-wrenching "Here is the Little Door" by Herbert Howells.
Other offerings include pieces by Dufay, Victoria, Lassus, Howells, and John Stainer.
Concert dates and venues are:
Saturday, January 13, 2024
7:00 pm
Belfast United Methodist Church
23 Mill Lane
Belfast, ME
Sunday, January 14, 2024
3:00 pm
Phippsburg Congregational Church
10 Church Lane
Phippsburg, ME
Saturday, January 20, 2024
7:00 pm
St. John’s Episcopal Church
225 French Street
Bangor, ME
Sunday, January 21, 2024
4:00 pm
Union Hall
24 Central Street
Rockport, ME
Tickets available at the door or online at www.voiceoftwenty.com. Admission $20; students free.
