Voices Presents “Winter Joy”

Please join us for our 2 performances on Friday December 16th and Saturday December 17th in UNC’s Moeser Auditorium. The concert will feature our full company performing Kirk Mechem’s Seven Joys of Christmas – a setting of lesser known carols; Winter (from the forgottens) by Dan Locklair – a four-movement choral cycle filled with vivid imagery; and Robert Ray’s Gospel Magnificat, complete with rhythm section. Our chamber ensemble Cantari will present a set of a cappella pieces including Salamone Rossi’s Elohim hashivenu; Robert Applebaum’s Maoz tsur; a setting of the first principal of Kwanzaa (Unity) by Zanaida Robles; Nathanial Dett’s Ave Maria; and a Nigerian Christmas song entitled Keresimesi q’dun de o arranged by Wendall Whalum, along with several other selections.