Weekend of Chamber Music serenades the season

HORTONVILLE, NY — The Weekend of Chamber Music will present a Festival of Noëls at the Hortonville Presbyterian Church at 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 9. Harpsichordist, host and musicologist Kenneth Hamrick will direct a program of vocal and instrumental music, interspersed with short prose and poetry readings from the 17th to 20th centuries.

Celebrating the spirit of the season in America and Europe, the program offers French, English, German and American carols; DeLalande’s Symphonies des Noëls; arias excerpted from Bach’s Cantatas for the Christmas season; and music to sing along to celebrate the season.

Music will be performed by Szilvia Schranz, soprano; Judith Pearce, flute; Sunghae Anna Lim, violin; Robert Wagner, bassoon; in addition to Hamrick. Admission costs $20, cash or check, free for students 18 and under.

For more information call 845/932-8527.