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 […]
Vivaldi’s Women
For those interested in Vivaldi’s 36 year career in Venice at the Ospedale della Pieta (girls’ orphanage-turned-conservatory), here is a wonderful one-hour documentary on the topic from the BBC. And it explores the unresolved question of who sang the tenor/bass parts for his vocal music: “Dixit Dominus” (a piece we performed in fall 2011) and “Magnificat” (which […]
John Martin and Anna Woodbury Performance
Our good friend John Martin, who sang Elijah with us last spring (and who will be returning this January), will be singing with one of our newer singers, Anna Woodbury. Save the dates! The Stratham Community Church on Sunday, October 19 at 10 AM. They will be performing a duet based on the English Folk Song Waly, Waly […]
Calling All Singers. Literally.
In our historic 30th season, one of our goals is to reconnect with as many former PWC/PPM singers as possible. Our goals in doing this are to: Reconnect them with our group Get them to come to our concerts Share great past memories and stories through our website Invite them to support PPM through donations, […]
PPM’s Priscilla French joins PACA’s new Steering Committee
Piscataqua Arts & Cultural Alliance, a program of Art-Speak, is a member driven initiative whose primary mission is to serve and strengthen the Portsmouth area’s nonprofit arts, historical and cultural community by facilitating collaboration, coordination and communication. The steering committee consists of diverse representation from the arts and cultural community comprised of staff or board […]
December Concert Time Change
Singers, Please note new time of 2:30pm for our Dec. 14th concert at the Immaculate Conception Church in Portsmouth.
Singing Classes With Marya
One of the great things about belonging to PPM is learning from Priscilla and Robert how to sing better. If you’d like additional guidance, but are not ready to commit to private lessons, you might be interested in classes I’ll be teaching in October and November, sponsored by adult education programs in Dover (Oct. 1 & […]