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\nThe benefit concert \u201cHarmony and Hope: A Musical Bridge to Haiti,\u201d on Saturday, April 24, will feature hundreds of participants, with performances by nine musical ensembles drawn from Vassar College as well as from the Hudson Valley community. Sponsored by the Vassar College Department of Music and the Vassar Haiti Project, the program will begin at 7:00pm in the Vassar Chapel. Tickets are $10 for students; $20 for general admission (minimum donation). Donations of $50 and above will include admission to a post-concert President\u2019s Reception. Tickets will be available in advance at the College Center Information Desk, located on the first floor of Vassar\u2019s historic Main Building.
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<\/a><\/p>\n“Ra Ra” by Jean Claude Blanc<\/em> Harmony and Hope: A Musical Bridge to Haiti VASSAR COLLEGE CHAPEL\u00a0 Saturday April 24 @ 7pm The benefit concert \u201cHarmony and Hope: A Musical Bridge to Haiti,\u201d on Saturday, April 24, will feature hundreds of participants, with performances by nine musical ensembles drawn from Vassar College as well as from the Hudson Valley community. Sponsored […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-partners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/haitiproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nThe three Hudson Valley ensembles that will participate in the concert are: the Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir, an auditioned choir of trained vocalists celebrating its 35th anniversary season, Christine R. Howlett, artistic director, and Susan Bialek \u201986, conductor; two Stringendo ensembles: the Strawberry Hill Fiddlers, a group 18 classically-trained string players from Dutchess County-area high schools, directed by Emily and Carole Schaad, as well as the award-winning Vivace Orchestra, comprised of 34 high school students from the Dutchess County-area, directed by Jonathan Handman.
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\n\u201cI feel it is very important for the students in the Vivace Orchestra and the Strawberry Hill Fiddlers to learn about the role music can play in times of need,\u201d noted Jonathan Handman, director of Stringendo. \u201cThe high school students who are members of the ensembles find this cause particularly resonant as it is on behalf of their counterparts who have been studying music in Haiti.\u201d
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\nIn addition to the community musical groups, there will be six Vassar College ensembles featured in the program: the student-run Mahagonny Ensemble, dedicated to performing contemporary classical music, Mark Van Hare \u201910 and Catherine O\u2019Kelly \u201911, conductors; the student-run Baroque ensemble, the Vassar Camerata, Emily Bookwalter \u201910 and Nicholas Rocha \u201911, conductors; the Vassar College Choir, an auditioned mixed choral ensemble of approximately 50 students, Drew Minter, conductor; the 20-piece Vassar College Jazz Ensemble, James Osborn, director; the Vassar College Orchestra, Eduardo Navega, conductor; and the Vassar College Women\u2019s Chorus, Christine R. Howlett, conductor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"