Mother's Day is just around the corner! Celebrate by joining us for our annual choral program where we honor motherhood and platform women composers - this year, featuring the Falcon Singers from John A. Ferguson High School.
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At this year’s Serenade to Motherhood concert, we collaborated with Angelo Marchese’s Falcon Singers from John A. Ferguson High School, as well as with our talented instrumentalists. Celebrating motherhood and paying tribute to the women composers who enrich our choral canon, this was a very unique program. Repertoire: Peteco Carabajal’s Como Pajaros en el Aire” (Peteco CarabajL), Peace I Leave with You (Amy Beach), They are Mother (Jennifer Lucy Cook), Hymne au Soleil” (Lili Boulanger), Songs My Mother Taught Me (Antonin Dvorak), Caccini: Ave Maria (Vladimir Vavilov),vImpromptu in E (Clara Schumann), Illuminare (Elaine Hagenber), My Mother’s Love (Tom Shelton)
Miami Collegium Musicum partnered with the Coconut Grove Music Series and the St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church Choir, directed by Gregory Cheng, in the Annual Christmas Concert. The program featured Part 1 (plus the Hallelujah Chorus) of Handel’s Messiah (in English and Spanish) as well as holiday favorites.
The first of these two sets of concerts featured CPE Bach’s Magnificat – possibly the first performance in Miami. The second set was our 2nd Annual Serenade to Motherhood concert, with a program including two movements from Illuminare (Elaine Hagenberg), Alleluia (Rachel Currea), Berceuse (Cécile Chaminade), Ave Maria (César Franck), “Salve Regina” from To the Mothers of Brazil (Lars Jansson, arr. Gunnar Eriksson), Grandmother Moon (Eleanor Daley), Ride up in the Chariot (trad., arr Stacey Gibbs), Como Pájaros en el Aire (Peteco Carabajal, arr. Liliana Cangiano), My Mother’s Love (Tom Shelton).
MCM is Miami’s nonprofit community chamber choir, consisting of 24-30 singers of all backgrounds and ages. All are volunteers who make a commitment to learn music outside of regular Monday evening rehearsals, so that the ensemble can focus on musicality and performance considerations.
Our standard performance year runs from August through May and includes evensongs, holiday concerts, large works, and a Mother’s Day concert to wrap up the season. But keep an eye out for new, exciting things on the horizon!
Selected cuts from pieces sung by Miami Collegium at two concerts in 2021: an evensong and a holiday concert.
