Over 200 voices, organ and brass will fill Memorial Chapel March 1 at 3 p.m. for a performance of Daniel Pinkham's The Christmas Cantata.
Conducted by the composer, and performed in honor of his 75th birthday, the program will feature the Union College Choir, Albany Pro Musica, the Battenkill
Chorale, and the Burnt Hills Oratorio Society.
Pinkham's catalog includes four symphonies, cantatas, oratorios and
theater works. His teachers have included Aaron Copeland and Samuel Barber. He has held
fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, Ford Foundation and American Academy of Arts
and Sciences.
He will deliver a free lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 24, at 12:30 p.m. in
Arts 215 titled “Words to Music.”