AAA Board member, Dr. Robert Young McMahan, will premier his new work, “Time”, for chorus, accordion, organ, and percussion. The Poem was written by Valerie Bloom a Jamaican poet living in England. It is from a collection of children’s poems by Bloom. It will be part of a concert by VOICES Chorale, Lyn Ransom, conductor, entitled “Time Passing, Time Standing Still: Musical Perception of Time”. Dr. McMahan who was commissioned by VOICES will perform the accordion in it.

The concert will take place on Saturday, May 18, 8:00 PM, at St. Paul Roman Catholic Church, 214 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542. “Time” was commissioned by VOICES, as were two other choral works by Ken Guilmartin and Sheena Philips, which will also be premiered on the program.

VOICES’ mission is to deepen the public appreciation of vocal music by performing outstanding choral music at a high artistic level and by supporting the creation of new works.

VOICES Chorale, an auditioned chorus with more than 60 members from New Jersey and Pennsylvania, was founded in 1987 to provide outstanding performance opportunities for community singers.

The chorale performs an unusually varied repertoire, including masterworks and premieres by American composers, with three concert series per season in Princeton and in Bucks County, PA. VOICES also offers small group and solo opportunities, performing music from great composers of the past to contemporary compositions.

VOICES also sponsors an annual Young Composers Project for children ages 5 to 12 and a series of outreach concerts at senior residences in the Princeton area and Bucks County, PA.
VOICES is supported in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Department of State, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and by funds from the Mercer County Executive and the Mercer County Board of ChosenFreeholders.

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