Triad Arts with David Ford Piedmont Chamber singers present A Moravian ChristmasDecember 11, 2012It was not the Pilgrims who brought European music to America, but the Moravians. These German-speaking, music-loving Christians came to America, and brought the musical traditions of Haydn and Mozart with them. In fact, when Benjamin Franklin wanted to hear Haydn’s Creation, he had to hop on a horse from Philadelphia to the Moravian community outside of town to hear it!
On its 35th anniversary season, The Piedmont Chamber Singers are celebrating our Moravian musical heritage with A Moravian Christmas, Friday night, December 14 at 7:30pm in Calvary Moravian Church, and Saturday, December 15 at 7:30pm in Kernersville Moravian Church.
On the program will be Franz Joseph Haydn’s Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo, fondly nicknamed the Little Organ Mass. Piedmont Chamber Singers Artistic Director Wendy Looker spoke with David by phone from her studio in Greensboro.
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Triad Arts Archives
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November 20, 2012: The High Point Theatre is Hot!
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November 17, 2012: The Piedmont Craftsmen Fair is Creeping Up on the Big Five-Oh
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November 16, 2012: Jeffrey Smith and the Quality of Winston-Salem Life
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November 15, 2012: Winston-Salem Symphony presents Choral Classics
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November 14, 2012: Winston-Salem Light Project Kicks off 6 Days in November 2012
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November 13, 2012: CAGEFEST presents Kay Larson and her lecture “Cage and Zen: The Koan of Silence”
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November 10, 2012: Associated Artists of Winston-Salem present Fall for Art
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November 9, 2012: Susannah Ravenswing: 40 Years of Magick, Art and Passion
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November 7, 2012: UNCSA Drama Division presents Detective Story
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November 6, 2012: Rob Taylor presents The Triad Shakesperience and piedmonttriadtheatre.com
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November 3, 2012: International Dancer and Choreographer Bill T. Jones Teaches Salem College Dancers
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November 2, 2012: Salem College and the June Porter Johnson Series for the Visual and Performing Arts present The Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zade Dance Company
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November 1, 2012: Festival Stage of Winston-Salem presents The Last Days of Ballyhoo
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October 31, 2012: BOOKMARKS presents A Book Launch Celebration
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October 30, 2012: Twin City Stage presents Fiddler on the Roof
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October 27, 2012: Reynolda House Museum of American Art presents Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey
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October 26, 2012: Stained Glass Playhouse presents Steel Magnolias
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October 25, 2012: SECCA presents Vibha Galhotra: Metropia
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October 24, 2012: Ben Taylor Live in Studio A
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October 23, 2012: Press 53 Celebrates 100th Publication
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October 20, 2012: Wake Louie Goldstein on John Cage and CAGEFEST (Part 2)
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October 19, 2012: Broadway’s Best Theatre Company of North Carolina
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October 18, 2012: Forecast Music presents Man and Machine
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October 17, 2012: Piedmont Opera presents Carmen
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October 16, 2012: Music for a Great Space presents great organist Tim Olsen
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October 14, 2012:
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October 12, 2012: Emily Hurd and Stone Blind Valentine
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October 11, 2012: Winston-Salem Symphony presents Tchaikovsky’s Fifth with Matthew Troy
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October 10, 2012: Bel Canto Company presents Au Naturel
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October 9, 2012: Sarod Master Gaurang Doshi presents Ragas at Dusk
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