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Elijah
TAGHKANIC CHORALE TO PRESENT
MENDELSSOHN’S “ELIJAH” AT SUMMER SING
On
Tuesday, August 5th at 7:30 p.m., the Taghkanic Chorale will present its 2014 Summer
Sing,
a musical reading of Mendelssohn’s “Elijah,” conducted by Music Director,
Steven
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Fox.
The event will take place at Yorktown Church of the Nazarene, 1243 White Hill
Road,
Yorktown Heights, NY.
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Area
singers are invited to form the chorus with members of the Taghkanic Chorale in
a dramatic musical retelling of the Biblical story of the prophet, Elijah.
Admission fee of $10 includes refreshments and use of a score (or bring your
own score). Venue is air conditioned. For
information and directions, visit www.taghkanicchorale.org or call 914-737-6707.
“Elijah,”
a thrilling Romantic-era depiction of the prophet’s tumultuous life, flight
into the wilderness and ascension into heaven in a flaming chariot is regarded
by many as Mendelssohn’s choral masterpiece. He conducted the premiere in
Birmingham, England in 1846, a year before his untimely death.
Steven
Fox, Music Director of the Taghkanic Chorale is also the critically acclaimed
Artistic Director of New York’s Clarion Music Society and founder of Musica
Antiqua, St. Petersburg. Named an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in
London in 2010, Mr. Fox has served as guest conductor for leading Baroque
orchestras, including Julliard415 at Lincoln Center and the Handel and Haydn
Society in Boston.