SUNY Potdam

Potsdam Community Chorus performs "An American Thanksgiving"

11.05.09

The Potsdam Community Chorus and Ensemble will present “An American Thanksgiving” on Sunday, Nov. 22, at 3 p.m. in SUNY Potsdam’s Helen M. Hosmer Concert Hall. 

The program, inspired by “The Sacred Harp” will include the premiere of “Wondrous Love” arranged by Dean Michael R. Sitton of The Crane School of Music; the East Coast premiere of Mack Wilberg’s new collection of American folk hymns “My Song in the Night”; Carol Barnett’s “An American Thanksgiving”; and works by minimalist composer William Duckworth and colonial composer William Billings.

Choral Conductor Dr. Jeff Francom will be taking the direction duties for the night. He is a new faculty member at The Crane School of Music, where he also conducts the Crane Chorus and Men's Ensemble.

Previously, he was director of SUNY Stony Brook’s Camerata Singers and The Babylon Chorale.

He was the recipient of Stony Brook’s Ackerman Prize and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Fellowship sponsored by Charterhouse in Godalming, England.

The concert is free, and the public is invited to attend.

Contact:
Rebecca Reames
(315) 267-2461 | reamesrr@potsdam.edu