Open Messiah Sing (CANCELLED)

Sunday, January 5, 2020 at 3:00pm

First Baptist Church of Wickford

Wickford, Rhode Island

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Join organist, Phillip Martorella, with soloists Amanda Santo, Arielle Rogers, Tony Grelle and Jason Shealy. Under the baton of Eric Van Dervort we will sing the beloved choruses of Handel's Messiah!  Bring your score, or borrow one at the door. Admission is a canned good to benefit the North Kingstown Food Pantry.

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Music at the Meeting House
An Old English Christmas
Sunday, December 1, 2019 at 2:30pm

Chepachet Baptist Church 

Chepachet, Rhode Island

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Collegium Ancora-In Harmony

Saturday, June 15, 2019 at 5:00pm

Grace Episcopal Church

Providence, Rhode Island

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Music at the Meeting House
Heartland - Music of the Mid-West

Sunday, May 5, 2019 at 5:00pm

Chepachet Baptist Church 

Chepachet, Rhode Island

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Open Messiah Sing

Sunday, January 6, 2019 at 3:00pm

First Baptist Church of Wickford

Wickford, Rhode Island

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Join organist, Phillip Martorella, with soloists Amanda Santo, Arielle Rogers, Tony Grelle and Jason Shealy. Under the baton of Eric Van Dervort we will sing the beloved choruses of Handel's Messiah!  Bring your score, or borrow one at the door. Admission is a canned good to benefit the North Kingstown Food Pantry.

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Music at the Meeting House

Christmas Music of Southern Europe

Sunday, December 2, 2018 at 2:30pm

Chepachet Baptist Church 

Chepachet, Rhode Island

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Music at the Meeting House - Spring Fever 

Sunday, March 25, 2018 at 2:30pm

Chepachet Baptist Church 

Chepachet, Rhode Island

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Collegium Ancora-Songs of Love & Ecstasy

Sunday, April 15, 2018 at 5:00pm

Grace Episcopal Church

Providence, Rhode Island

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Spring -at last- and love is in the air!  Or so we’re supposed to believe: in reality, love is much more complicated.  In this concert, we explore musical expressions of love in many guises: youthful, steadfast, waning, passionate, unrequited, forbidden… These stylistically diverse settings of equally diverse texts resonate with our own experiences of the exhilarating, bewildering, and -at times- painful experiences of loving and being loved.

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Music at the Meeting House - Spring Fever 

Sunday, March 25, 2018 at 2:30pm

Chepachet Baptist Church 

Chepachet, Rhode Island

Collegium Ancora-The Song THree Ways

Sunday, February 18, 2018 at 5:00pm

St. Columba's Chapel

Middletown, Rhode Island

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This concert explores 3 styles of song, each born under very different circumstances. "Madrigals" -the equivalent of pop music in Renaissance Europe- commonly highlight the beginnings and endings of romantic entanglements (some things never change!), often in a characteristically lighthearted manner. In contrast, the dehumanizing depravity of the transatlantic slave trade gave rise to the "Spiritual" - a musical and cultural tradition born of insistent dignity and relentless hope in the midst of great suffering. What we call "Folk Songs" encompasses a dazzling variety of other traditions the world over. What knits folk songs together is their informal origins: they are created, sustained, and reimagined not by powerful elites, but by everyday people.

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West Bay Chorale

What Sweeter Music, featuring Vivaldi's Gloria

Sunday, December 10, 2017 at 3:00pm

Edgewood Congregational Church

Cranston, Rhode Island

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Music at the Meeting House,
Christmas Songs of Northern Europe 

Sunday, December 3, 2017 at 2:30pm

Chepachet Baptist Church 

Chepachet, Rhode Island

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Music at the Meeting House,
Songs of the South

Sunday, October 1, 2017 at 2:30pm

Chepachet Baptist Church 

Chepachet, Rhode Island

A Benefit Concert for the Victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. 

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Open Messiah Sing

Sunday, January 3, 2017 at 3:00pm

First Baptist Church of Wickford

Wickford, Rhode Island

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Join organist, Phillip Martorella, with soloists Amanda Santo, Arielle Rogers, Tony Grelle and Jason Shealy. Under the baton of Eric Van Dervort we will sing the beloved choruses of Handel's Messiah!  Bring your score, or borrow one at the door. Admission is a canned good to benefit the North Kingstown Food Pantry.

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Music at the Meeting House

Songs of the Nelson Eddy

Sunday, October 6, 2016 at 2:30pm

Chepachet Baptist Church 

Chepachet, Rhode Island

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A famous 20th century singer and Hollywood star, Eddy was born in Providence, Rhode Island, and his family had deep roots in northwest Rhode Island, including Chepachet. To honor Eddy, we have invited Amanda Santo, Arielle Rogers, and Jason Shealy to bring you a selection of some of Eddy's most memorable songs from the wide range of musical traditions he worked with: Broadway musicals, Gilbert and Sullivan, classical opera, folk songs, and church hymns. Our selection will therefore be "eclectic" (as the critics say) — in the true meaning of the term — excellent examples from many traditions. 

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Open Messiah Sing

Sunday, January 4, 2016 at 3:00pm

First Baptist Church of Wickford

Wickford, Rhode Island

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Join organist, Phillip Martorella, with soloists Amanda Santo, Arielle Rogers, Tony Grelle and Jason Shealy. Under the baton of Eric Van Dervort we will sing the beloved choruses of Handel's Messiah!  Bring your score, or borrow one at the door. Admission is a canned good to benefit the North Kingstown Food Pantry.

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Rhode Island Opera Theater
Mostly Mozart, 2015

The Hills are Alive!, 2015

Broadway Lights & Opera Stars, 2015

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Open Messiah Sing

January, 2015 

First Baptist Church of Wickford

Wickford, Rhode Island

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Warwick Symphony Orchestra
Vaughan Williams Hodie

December, 2014

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UCONN Festival Chorus

Haydn's Creation

April, 2014

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Warwick Symphony Orchestra

Rutter Requiem

March, 2014

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UCONN Opera Theater

Ms. Wordsworth in Britten's Albert Herring

January, 2014

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UCONN Symphony Orchestra

Schubert Magnificat 

December, 2013

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Hartford Opera Theater,

New in November 

Sleeping Beauty in A Charming Affair

Co-Host 1/Angel 1 in Krispy Kremes and Butter Dreams

November, 2013

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