Lucia Singer's Mother's Day Concert
The annual Mother’s Day concert by the women of the Lucia Singers will be presented in Christ Chapel on Sunday, May 8 at 1:30 p.m. Conducted by Patricia Snapp, the Lucia Singers will be accompanied by pianist Samuel Grace and assisted by organist and pianist Chad Fothergill and flutist Abbie Johnson. This Mother’s Day concert is free and open to the public.
For the program, Conductor Patricia Snapp has selected works that span five centuries. The Singers will open with Ich will denn Herrn loben alle Zeit by George Phillipp Telemann and The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came, a Basque Carol in a new setting by Christ Chapel Organist Chad Fothergill, followed by Aaron Copland’s adaptation of At The River and Arise, My Love (text from Song of Solomon 2:10-12) by Laura Farnell. The concert continues with Giulio Caccini’s Ave Maria and African Kyrie and Sanctus by Patsy Ford-Simms and Andy Beck.
Long-time pianist for the Lucia Singers, Samuel Grace, will then step away from his role as accompanist to present a work for solo piano, the first movement of Sergei Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 2 in D Minor. The Lucia Singers will then return with three contemporary works to conclude the concert; a Clifton Noble arrangement of the African-American spiritual, Wade in the Jordan River, Jesus Joy of My Desiring by Douglas Wagner and Catherine Winkworth, and Rhythm of Life from the musical Sweet Charity by Dorothy Fields and Cy Coleman.
Sunday’s concert by the Lucia Singers and Conductor Patricia Snapp will begin at 1:30 p.m. in Christ Chapel. This special Mother’s Day concert is free and open to the public.