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Potsdam Community Chorus to present Requiem, Op. 9 April 22

Posted 4/21/12

POTSDAM -- The 100-voice Potsdam Community Chorus will present Requiem, Op. 9 by 20th century French composer Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) 3 p.m. Sunday, April 22, in Hosmer Hall at SUNY Potsdam. The …

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Potsdam Community Chorus to present Requiem, Op. 9 April 22

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POTSDAM -- The 100-voice Potsdam Community Chorus will present Requiem, Op. 9 by 20th century French composer Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) 3 p.m. Sunday, April 22, in Hosmer Hall at SUNY Potsdam.

The chorus and soloists will be accompanied by organist Gail Archer, an internationally renowned concert and recording artist, choral conductor and lecturer. Archer will also perform solo works for organ on the Crane school’s Wicks organ.

The concert is free but donations will be accepted in canisters in the lobby to help support the chorus’ community outreach programming. PCC is led by Jeffrey D. Francom of the Crane School of Music faculty.

A reception for Archer will follow from 5-6 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church of Potsdam, 42 Elm St. She will present a short slide show about some of the world’s great pipe organs, and play the Presbyterian Church’s organ.

Archer is college organist at Vassar College, and director of the music program at Barnard College, Columbia University where she conducts the Barnard-Columbia Chorus. Her visit to Potsdam is co-sponsored by PCC, the St. Lawrence River Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and the Potsdam FPC.

Completed in 1947, Duruflé’s Requiem is dedicated to the memory of his father. The Requiem is based on Gregorian chants used in the Mass for the Dead. The composer said the use of the organ in the piece “represents the idea of peace, of faith and hope.”

PCC members are students from local colleges and high schools and community residents from St. Lawrence and Franklin counties ranging in age from teens to senior citizens. Now in its 12th year, PCC performs a spring and fall concert and a “community outreach” concert each year.