Newman Night of Music

For the past few months, students at UNC Newman Campus Ministry in Chapel Hill, NC have been, on their own initiative, organizing, planning, and practicing for a benefit concert to help defray the costs of campus ministry. The festive evening occurred on February 16, 2023, in the Activity Center, before a crowd of 75 – mostly parents and supportive parishioners. The first half’s program of classical instrumental music included works by Telemann, Burgmüller, Mozart, Elgar, Fauré, Ewazen, Chopin, and Gillock, performed on piano, flute, horn, violin, viola, cello, and basso continuo. After intermission the program switched to choral popular fare, featuring works by Loewe and Lerner, Finzi, Porter, Sondheim, Menken and Ashman, and Lighfoot, accompanied by piano, saxophone, cello, guitar, and violin. The program concluded with a selection of a cappella music, featuring a spiritual, Gregorian chant, and works by Gawthrop and Manibusan/Hart/Angrisano.

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