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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
PPM Awards Three Scholarships to Area Students
PORTSMOUTH — On June 11th, three seacoast area high school graduates who will pursue the study of music were presented their award checks from Portsmouth Pro Musica Founder and Director, Priscilla Stevens French and Scholarship Committee Chair John Lamson. PPM Board of Directors were also on hand to congratulate scholarship winners and to express their […]
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Portsmouth Pro Musica performed Elijah at the South Church on Sunday, April 13th, 2014 on a beautiful sunny day in Portsmouth, NH. We captured portions of the performance for our new YouTube Channel. Portsmouth Pro Musica performs Felix Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Movement No. 43, Then Shall Your Light Break Through, at South Church in Portsmouth NH […]
Welcome To The New PPM Website!
In honor of our 30th season, we have completely revamped our website. Our goal is to provide you with info on all the exciting events coming up on the PPM calendar, let you know what our acapella group, The Overtones are up to, share info on all other area choral group and background on our […]
Felix Mendelssohn’s Elijah
For the final concert of our 29th season, we performed Felix Mendelssohn’s beautiful and dramatic oratorio, ELIJAH, featured a 17-piece orchestra, depicting events in the life of the Biblical prophet from the Hebrew Bible. The title role will was performed by renowned Boston baritone Bradford Gleim And featuring PPM’s Katy Fickenwirth, Marya Danihel and Richard […]