Love of Music

Love of Music: Women’s Choir performs at Carnegie Hall on
Valentine’s Day

Several members of Saint Mary’s prestigious Women’s Choir will celebrate their passion for performing with a concert at Carnegie Hall on Valentine’s Day. The concert, appropriately titled, “Love, Lust and Light” will begin at 2 p.m. in the Isaac Stern Auditorium. The Saint Mary’s choir will be performing with several high school women’s choirs, including two from Laporte and Northwood in Indiana and two from California.

The trip to Carnegie is nothing new for choir director and music professor Nancy Menk. This will be her fifth performance there. In addition, the Women’s Choir appeared in concert there in 1999, 2001, and 2005. “It’s a beautiful place with great acoustics. Music sounds wonderful in there. And there is just a lot of history and tradition that make it really memorable,” Menk told The Observer on Friday.

The choir members’ trip to New York City won’t be all rehearsal and performing. Several Saint Mary’s parents are accompanying their daughters to The Big Apple. The group will tour the city and celebrate the Carnegie performance with a reception and dinner.

Michelle LeFort '11, a chemistry and psychology double-major and an alto in the Women’s Choir, is looking forward to seeing her hard work pay off at Carnegie Hall. “We have been practicing outside of our normal choir time on weekends and I am excited to see it all come together,” she says. “The other choirs sound great and having us all together is going to blow the audience away.”

The Women’s Choir is a select 37-voice ensemble. The Choir tours nationally every other year and has performed throughout the United States. The Choir regularly performs with the University of Notre Dame Glee Club and in joint performances of major works with the South Bend Symphony Orchestra.

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