High school-aged male singers are the subject of an all-day choral and a cappella singing workshop, "New York Young Men Singing," Saturday, Nov. 22, at the Ithaca College School of Music, culminating in a free, public concert at 3:30 p.m. in Ford Hall Auditorium.
The featured guest clinician is Jerry Blackstone, director of choirs and chair of the Conducting Department at the University of Michigan School of Music. In his years conducting workshops and all-state festivals across the country, he has won a national reputation as an electrifying guest clinician and a specialist in working with men's voices.
Sponsored by the Cornell University Glee Club, the workshop begins at 9 a.m. with registration ($15 per person), followed by a rehearsal of the high school and college men (9:30-11:30 a.m.) led by Blackstone. After lunch, The Hangovers, an a cappella subset of the Glee Club, will teach a song to the high schoolers from 12:30 to 1 p.m., and a second rehearsal period will be conducted from 1:15 to 3:15 p.m.
The free concert at 3:30 p.m. will be presented for all parents of the participants as well as the community, opening with the Young Men's Chorus of Ithaca, conducted by Jennifer Haywood and Sean Conor Anderson. Affiliated with the Community School of Music and Arts, this chorus is part of the Ithaca Children's Choir program directed by Janet Galván. The Cornell University Glee Club, led by Cornell Associate Professor Scott Tucker, performs a selection of works followed by The Hangovers. The high school participants then perform, with The Hangovers, the song taught to them during the workshop. To close the concert, the Glee Club returns to the stage with all of the young male participants to perform four selections under the baton of Blackstone: Stephen Chatman's Reconciliation, Loch Lomond arranged by Ralph Vaughan-Williams, Salmo 150 by Ernani Aguiar and Franz Biebl's Ave Maria.
At the University of Michigan, Blackstone conducts the Chamber Choir, teaches conducting at the graduate and undergraduate levels and administers a choral program of 11 choirs.
For information, contact the Glee Club office at http://www.gleeclub.cornell.edu/.
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