Chamber Singers Choir Tour 2008

The Lone Star College-Montgomery Chamber Singers, a select choir of 16 voices, will appear on tour in Dallas and Huntsville, Texas, from April 10-12. The choir will present a free, public performance at the Plymouth Park United Methodist Church in Irving on Friday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. In addition, the group will conduct three private performances for residents at the Juliette Fowler Retirement Facility, Caruth Haven Court, and Carriage Inn.
     
The choir is directed by Gregory Ristow, professor of music at Lone Star College-Montgomery. These concerts mark the group’s third annual tour, and the first time they’ve performed in the Dallas area. MORE >>>

Performance Schedule Dallas/Huntsville 2008

April 10th 7:30 p.m.
Juliette Fowler Homes
105 Juliette Fowler Street
Dallas, TX

April 11th 2:00 p.m.
Caruth Haven Court
5585 Caruth Haven Ln,
Dallas, TX

April 11th 7:30 p.m.
PLymouth Park
United Methodist Church 
615 W. Airport Freeway
Irving, TX  
(Open to the public - free admission)

April 12th 1:00 p.m.
Carriage Inn
Retirement Community
2805 Lake Road 
Huntsville, TX

Chamber Singers Choir Tour 2007

Associate Professor of Music Gregory Ristow (pictured far left) has conducted concerts with the Eastman Repertory Singers, Gregory Kunde Chorale, and World Youth Honor Choir at Interlochen, as well as recordings of new compositions with the Eastman Chorale.  In addition to his duties at Lone Star College-Montgomery, he is the Director of the Eastman Summer Dalcroze Institute and serves on the faculty of the Eastman Choral Conducting Institute.

The Chamber Singers tour program included a wide variety of music, in both popular and classical styles.  The choir opened with a hilarious doo-wop style arrangement of Mozart’s Overture to the Marriage of Figaro and moved into more ‘serious’ music, from the Renaissance, Romantic and Modern eras.  They closed the performance with three American spirituals. The closing pieces provided a chance for audience members to listen to a few of the solo voices in the choir. Besides the spirituals and Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro Overture, The Chamber Singers also will performed music by William Byrd, Samuel Barber (author of the famous Adagio for Strings), Edvard Grieg, and a work by Einojuhani Rautavaara set to poetry by Garcia Lorca.

As Director of Choirs and a faculty member, Ristow is dedicated to his students and the performing arts.  Each year the choir travels to new venues. “A tour like this is a great chance for us to share our music making with a much wider audience. Moreover, New Orleans is such a famously musical town, it’s an honor to have the chance to perform there.”

This is the second year for the LSC-Montgomery Chamber Singers Spring Tour and the students prepare all year long to provide a variety of pieces to varied audiences. “Presenting a full program of ‘a cappella’ music – music with no piano accompaniment – is a challenge for singers of this age. They’ve really risen to the occasion!” The Chamber Singers and Concert Choir returned from their travels to complete the tour with a concert for our LSC-Montgomery community on April 26th at 7:30 p.m. including a special performance of Gabriel Faure’s Requiem. The tour was open to the community and free of charge at most facilities.

Performance Schedule / New Orleans 2007

April 19th 7:30 p.m.
St. Matthew Central United Church of Christ
1333 S. Carrollton Ave.
New Orleans, LA
(Open to the Public - free admission)

April 20th 12:00 p.m.
The McGehee School
2343 Prytania Street
New Orleans, LA

April 20th 7:30 p.m.
St. Anna's Episcopal Church
1313 Esplanade Ave.
New Orleans, LA
(Open to the public - free admission)

April 21st 1:00 p.m.
St. James Place
Retirement Community
Baton Rouge, LA

April 26th 7:30 p.m. (Tour Homecoming at LSC-Montgomery)
Gabriel Faure's Requiem
Concert Choir and Chamber Singers