 On Thursday, January 7, 2010 at 7:30 p.m., the University of Notre Dame Chorale, the official concert choir of the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, IN, will give the fourth performance of its Winter Tour at St. Bridget’s Roman Catholic Church
15 Wheeler Avenue
Framingham, MA 01702-2901
The program features traditional Christmas carols, choral works by Byrd, Haydn, Verdi, Wagner, Handel, and Debussy, and school songs including the Notre Dame Victory March. It is free and open to the public, although donations are welcome. The concert will last one hour, with no intermission. The University of Notre Dame Chorale is a mixed, 60-voice choir composed of students from all colleges of the University. The Chorale’s Winter Tour, the group’s primary fundraiser for its triennial international tours, begins this year in Pittsburgh, with subsequent stops in Washington, D.C., New York, Framingham, MA, Albany, NY, and Cleveland, OH. The Chorale is accompanied by Päivi Ekroth, an accomplished concert pianist. The Notre Dame Chorale is directed by Alexander Blachly, known internationally for his Grammy-nominated Renaissance choir Pomerium, with which he has released thirteen commercial recordings of Renaissance choral music on the Old Hall, Glissando, Deutsche Grammophon, Dorian, Classic Masters, and Nonesuch labels. Blachly has directed the Chorale for the past seventeen years in concerts throughout the United States, Italy, France, Germany, and New Zealand. To hear a sampling of the University of Notre Dame Chorale in concert, please visit www.nd.edu/~chorale and click on Sound Files. For more information, please contact the Chorale’s Tour Commissioner, Vanessa Gempis, at
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