VoXX: Voice of Twenty will present its 2024 summer series, Music for Midsummer, with four June concerts in Belfast, Cushing, and Rockport.
VoXX will welcome summer with a selection of sacred and secular pieces centered around themes of love, loss, and the changing of the seasons. Pieces range from the fourteenth century Ecco la Primavera to a setting of Billy Joel's And So it Goes. Other offerings include madrigals April is in My Mistress' Face and Weep, O Mine Eyes; Monteverdi's Adoramus Te; Salamone Rossi's setting of the Hebrew psalm Elohim Hashivenu; Philip Glass's There Are Some Men; and original pieces by chorus member Grace Yanz and Music Director John Mehrmann, along with offerings from Mendelsohn, Lassus, Morley, Palestrina, and more. Concerts dates and venues are:
Saturday, June 15, 2024
7:30 pm
Belfast Unitarian Universalist Church
37 Miller Street, Belfast
Tickets available at the door
Sunday, June 16, 2024
4:00 pm
Old South Cushing Meeting House
Salt Pond Road, Cushing
Tickets at the door, suggested donation $20. Cash or check only.
Saturday, June 22, 2024
7:30 pm
Union Hall
24 Central Street, Rockport
Sunday, June 23, 2024 - CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER
3:00 pm
Beech Nut
Beech Hill Preserve, Rockport
We hope you will join us to welcome summer!
VoXX was formed around the turn of this century as Ave Maris Stella, a group of passionate singers who gathered in living rooms to challenge themselves with early, a cappella music. Since then, the ensemble has grown in size and skill and has built a loyal following while performing at many venues around Maine, from Portland to Blue Hill and many towns in between.
Today the ensemble enjoys the challenges of both well-known and unusual a cappella vocal music, with a wide-ranging repertoire that includes more familiar works by composers such as Byrd, Dufay, Josquin, Monteverdi, and Palestrina, along with less-familiar discoveries from the Medieval to the modern. The group’s full-length recording, “Favorites Old and New” will be available at the group’s concerts (while supplies last).