Exeter, NH (November 21, 2006)—On Friday, December 1, at 7:00 p.m., Phillips Exeter Academy’s Music department will host its Annual Holiday Concert with close to 250 students and more than 10 major ensembles performing at Thompson Gymnasium, located on the corner of Court and Gilman Streets in Exeter. The concert is free and open to the public.
The West African Drum Ensemble will perform Fanga Alafia Ase’ Ase’, a traditional selection of welcome and praise from Liberia, West Africa; the Concert Band will perform Simple Gifts, four Shaker songs; the Women’s Chorus will perform lullabies from Central and South America, and England; the Percussion Ensemble will perform a selection, “Four on the Floor,” by composer Jeffrey Peyton; Symphonia will perform an English folk song suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams; the Stage Band will perform jazz selections by Tito Puente and Mercer Ellington; the Concert Choir will perform selections of sacred music by Arvo Pärt, Javier Busto, John Gardner and Andrejs Jansons; the Chamber Orchestra will offer their rendition of Mozart’s Overture to the Magic Flute; the Glee Club will perform Gloria in D, RV 589, by Vivaldi; the Symphony Orchestra will perform Suite No. 1 from “The Nutcracker,” by Tchaikovsky; and the finale includes an audience sing-along of such holiday favorites as Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Silver Bells and Frosty the Snowman.
For further information, please contact Patrice Baker in the Music department at (603) 777-3453. A complete list of upcoming events is available on the Phillips Exeter Academy public events line at (603) 777-4309 and on our website at www.exeter.edu. For directions to Phillips Exeter Academy, call (603) 777-4330.
Phillips Exeter Academy is a coeducational, independent preparatory school that was founded in 1781 and originated the system of instruction known as Harkness teaching in 1931. In the spirit of its charter to foster both goodness and knowledge, students come from a wide variety of geographic, economic, racial and religious backgrounds. The diverse student body comes from approximately 45 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and 26 foreign countries.
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