Dress Rehearsal Notes: 12/10/14
Good Rainy Morning, PPM singers! Very good dress rehearsal last night. How exciting to hear the orchestra and put together the Vivaldi/Bach works with them! Our soloists are just amazing. And there is some beautiful singing in our two a cappella motets in that space – For Thursday’s dress rehearsal in Dover, please review all music […]
Concert Program Order
Here is the program order at a glance: Twelve Days of Christmas Alma Redemptoris Mater Ave Maria Twas in the Moon of Wintertime Magnificat INTERMISSION Overtones selections Wachet Auf Night of Silence Jingle Bells
Join PPM on Tour to Vienna, Budapest and Prague
From the Piscataqua to the Danube, Portsmouth Pro Musica will bring Songs of Americana to the heart of musical culture and History 25 June to 5 July 2015 We hope you will join us for concerts and sightseeing on this exciting tour! Publicized concerts at historical venues. Group and individual tours with local guides or on your own. Excellent […]
CONCERT PROGRAM NOTES – December 2014
Welcome to the 30th anniversary season of Portsmouth Women’s Chorus/Portsmouth Pro Musica! Following are the details of the pieces we performed for our 30th Anniversary Christmas Concert on Friday, Dec. 12th and Sunday, Dec. 14th, 2014. Two Baroque masterpieces composed within a year of each other, one in Venice, the other in Leipzig, form the […]
PPM’s 30th Anniversary Christmas Concert
Portsmouth Pro Musica greets the Seacoast’s holiday season with “A 30th Birthday Christmas” choral concert performances of Vivaldi’s joyous Magnificat, with chamber orchestra and J.S. Bach’s Cantata #140, also known as “Sleepers Wake.” As a special birthday collaboration, members of “Sandpipers,” Seacoast Children’s Chorus will join the chorus to present several holiday selections. Sandpipers is a […]
Upcoming Area Choral Perfomances
We invite you to enjoy these area concerts to celebrate the season and support the arts on the seacoast. Vocalocity Tidings of Comfort and Joy Saturday, December 6th, 3pm – Cooperative Middle School, Stratham Community Chorus at South Berwick Season to Rejoice with works by Homilius, CPE Bach, Lauridsen Saturday, December 6th 7:30pm – Holy […]
Easy Risers
Last Friday afternoon, PPM’s new risers arrived via Fedex to Cyndi Bear’s home. Cyndi has kindly agreed to store the equipment until a permanent location can be found. There to meet the truck and help unload and unpack the cargo was the bass trio of Al Lantinen, Paul Carlton and Scott “Wide Step” Bieber. The team […]
Journey Song Concert November 16th
The amazing organization Journey Song will be performing their first ever fall concert on Sunday November 16th at 4pm at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship at 20 Madbury Road, Durham, NH. The concert, under the direction of Eve Kornhauser, is free and open to the public. Journey Song is in its 7th year of bringing the comfort of vocal music to Seacoast residents […]
Bach Cantata #140 and Vivaldi’s Magnificat
We will be performing the beautiful Bach Cantata #140 and Vivaldi’s Magnificat in our Winter concert in December. We thought you would like to know more about these selections. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (Awake, calls the voice to us), BWV 140, also known as Sleepers Wake, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He […]
New Risers For PPM
We are proud to officially announce that the board has approved and purchased brand new risers for Portsmouth Pro Musica. The system includes five 3-step interlocking sections with side and back rails. The rows are deeper than the ones we have been using, an improvement that will offer more room for each singer to hold […]