A shimmering Christmas cantata with soloists and chamber players, and works from an earlier period that inspired it, will begin the 70th anniversary season of The Choral Society of the Hamptons.
Led by the Society’s music director, the well-known conductor Mark Mangini, the chorus will present its annual Christmas program, this year entitled “A Rose in Winter,” featuring Ottorino Respighi’s Laud to the Nativity, a work which critics have said outshines the composer’s better-known “Pines” and “Fountains of Rome”. The “unaffected yet moving” score has been described as having “the freshness of Giotto frescos put to sound.” The program will feature two soloists known from previous Choral Society concerts, the mezzo-soporano Cherry Duke and the tenor Nils Neubert, and a rising star, the soprano Mizuho Take****a, along with the South Fork Chamber Ensemble.
Times: 3 PM & 5:30 PM
Admission: $30 in advance ($35 at the door), with youth tickets $10 in advance ($15 at the door)
