LU Choral Arts: Handel • Israel in Egypt
Fri., Sat., Apr. 24, 25 • 8 pm
Baker Hall • $18
The 200
singers of Lehigh University’s Choral Arts, directed by Steven Sametz, present
a concert exploring the story of the Exodus through Handel’s most ambitious and
brilliant oratorio for double choir and orchestra,
Israel in Egypt. Notes Sametz,
“Handel knocked himself out with
Israel
in Egypt. It is a tour de force for the choir; the
arias are full of drama and color, depicting the plagues visited on Egypt and the parting of the Red
Sea. This is the height of the High Baroque period.” The concert also features a
45-piece orchestra and the internationally
acclaimed soloists, sopranos
Carol
Chickering and Michele Zuckman, counter-tenor
Roger Isaacs, tenor
Eric
Fennell, and bass-baritones
Elem
Eley and
William Walker.
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Don't miss the FREE pre-show activities:
On
Wed.,
April 22 at 4 pm
in Zoellner
Arts Center,
an interfaith colloquium entitled
“
Christian and Jewish Perspectives on the Exodus”
led by the
Hillel
Society’s Rabbi Seth Goren examines Biblical and contemporary themes of
Diaspora and Exodus. Panel members include
Lehigh
University
Chaplain Lloyd Steffen,
Rev. Wayne E. Killian Catholic Chaplain of Lehigh University, Director of
the Newman Center and Pastor of the University Parish of Holy Ghost
, Dr. Peter Petit of Muhlenberg
College’s Interfaith Relations
, and
Robby Schotter from the Metropolitan Community Church
of the Lehigh Valley
.
In addition to the colloquium, there will be a
free
pre-show lecture prior to each concert
on Friday, April 24th and
Saturday, April 25th at 7 pm given
Dr. Nadine Sine, of Lehigh
University’s Music Dept., discussing the musical and Biblical themes in
Handel’s masterpiece.
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