Making musical history ~
performing today's music now!
The Adesso Choral Society is a select chamber chorus that places special emphasis on performing new music by living composers.
Founded in 2001 by director
Margaret Collins Stoop, Adesso has performed music of many eras and genres at concerts throughout the Fairfield County, CT area. Programs have included new works from local composers including Allen Brings, Michael La Barre, Robert Baksa,
Evelyn Avoglia and Margaret Collins Stoop, as well as newly arranged folks songs from South Africa, Korea, England, Appalachia, Finland and North Argentina. Seminal works by Kodaly, Mozart, Bach, Thompson and Faure have also been performed.
Upcoming Concerts
~ Songs of Love, Nature and Housework ~
Saturday, June 9, 2012, 4 p.m.
G&B Community Cultural Center
49 New St., Wilton, CT 06897
This program will feature three new works by Adesso's director: "City Trees," setting a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, "The Talking Oak," setting words by Mary Caroline Davies, and "Domestic Work, 1937," which sets a poem by Natasha Trethewey, pulitzer prize winning contemporary American poet. Also on the program is "Silent Moon," by Hartford's Ken Steen, "Ashes of Life" by Long Island composer Patricia King, and other delightful tunes about nature and housework.
