The entire ensemble performed during the major works concert.
ANNUAL MAJOR WORKS
CONCERT
Students Collaborate with Outside Music Ensembles
The concert featured the Fox Chapel
Area High School Concert Choir
performing “Frostiana: Seven Country
Songs” by Robert Frost, set to music
by Randall Thompson. According to
Fox Chapel Area High School Choir
Director Benjamin Murray, “Frostiana”
is a wonderful work that captures the
deceptive simplicity of Robert Frost’s
poetry and created the opportunity
Belle Voci and the Seton Hill Setonia joined the
combined women of the Fox Chapel Area High
School choirs.
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for the students to connect musical
structure with poetry.
The combined women of the Fox
Chapel Area High School choirs, as well
as the ambassador orchestra and the
college, community, and professional
music ensembles, also presented a full
performance of Giovanni Battista
Pergolesi’s “Stabat Mater.” The
performance featured professional
vocalists soprano Meghan DeWald
Althouse and contralto Daphne
Alderson.
“In my opinion, no composer has
been able to create such a beautiful
contrast with two vocal lines more than
Pergolesi in his ‘Stabat Mater,’” Mr.
Murray stated. “While not intended
for a large mass choir, t