Members’ Page Archive

As we did last year, we are starting by soliciting ads to local businesses by mail. Later we may ask you to follow up in person with businesses who have not responded, if necessary.

A mailing to previous advertisers and potential new advertisers suggested by our members has been prepared, but it’s not too late to reach out to other possible advertisers if you know of some good prospects. Ad orders are due by November 1.

• Cover letter to advertisers
• Diagram of ad sizes
• Ad order form
• Advertiser contact information

If you have any questions about the ad sales campaign, the easiest way to contact Jill Sauser is to send an email to jill.sauser@gmail.com.

Click here to listen to the entire concert

Click here to access the music files for downloading

Photos and Program

You can find everything you’re looking for in the Concert Archive pages.

(As always, we’re making these recordings available to you, our members, for your private enjoyment only. Please don’t copy them to any streaming services or publish them in any way.)

The “Gift to Sing” concert video is listed in our public YouTube channel (click here). Anyone can find the video by searching YouTube for “Kent Singers” and/or “Gift to Sing”. You can also go to kentsingers.org and click the YouTube social media icon at the top of the page.

The YouTube player for the entire concert has a playlist that will let you jump directly to each song. To find the playlist, click in the description where it says “more…” There is also a separate YouTube video clip for the premiere performance of our commission piece, “The Gift to Sing.”

Here is an audio player for the concert:

This player has edited versions of two songs:

• Bright Morning Stars: 3:22 to 4:45 from dress rehearsal
• Arise, Beloved: final Arise from dress rehearsal

The video soundtrack does not include these audio edits.

Here is Knox’s practice playlist for our Spring concert.

• Spotify (14 songs)
• Youtube (same 14 songs, plus Dream of a Blessed Spirit)

Click here for a recording of The Choir Invisible on Youtube (not included in Knox’s practice playlist, therefore please use for notes only and not musical interpretation). Also included in audio player below.

Click here for practice aids for I Conquer the World with Words, including a introduction video by composer Jonathan Woody and an audio player that displays the music as it goes along (very cool). Be sure to scroll down and you will find all sorts of really great practice aids for Conquer, including each part separately with a click track to keep time. There’s also a player that leaves out each part, for example you hear SAT without bass, so you can sing along with the bass part (likewise for all four parts). All of this is really helpful!

And last but not least, here is “The Gift to Sing”, also by Jonathan Woody, which we commissioned for this concert!

• Click here for the music PDF
• Sing along with our rehearsal run-through on March 19.
• Listen to a synthesized audio performance in the audio player below (our concert will be the world premiere!)
• The audio player also has two slowed versions of “I Conquer the World with Words” (Skylark Vocal Ensemble), and “The Choir Invisible” (2009 ACDA High School Honor Choir).

Best Tracks

Both performances were very good, but Sunday was generally the better of the two in my opinion. This playlist has the Sunday version of all songs and readings except a few that, for technical reasons, sounded better in the Saturday recording (Shortest Day, Noel, Once as I remember, Journey of the Magi, Starlight Night). I also replaced the organ intro on “Midnight Clear” with the Saturday version, because there was a little bobble in the playing on Sunday.

Saturday, December 7, 2024

Click here to listen to the entire Saturday concert

Here is a player for individual songs (Saturday):

Sunday, December 8, 2024

Click here to listen to the entire Sunday concert

Here is a player for individual songs (Sunday):

Click here to access the music files for downloading (Disc 1 is Dec 7, Disc 2 is Dec 8)

Photos and Program

You can find everything you’re looking for in the Concert Archive pages.

(As always, we’re making these recordings available to you, our members, for your private enjoyment only. Please don’t copy them to any streaming services or publish them in any way.)

Click here to see the concert program

Click here to listen to the entire live concert

(As always, we’re making these recordings available to you, our members, for your private enjoyment only. Please don’t copy them to any streaming services or publish them in any way.)

Here are Knox’s official playlists for our Summer concert:

• Youtube
• Spotify

One nice thing about the YouTube recording of the Zelenka is that it has the score with it—including the orchestral and solo parts—which might be especially helpful as we get closer to the concert.

Here are slowed-down versions of two sections from the Zelenka:

Also, here is a quick lesson on how to perform the trills in the Handel Coronation Anthems:

• Trills in Handel‘s Coronation Anthems

Click here to see the concert program

Click here to listen to the entire live concert

(As always, we’re making these recordings available to you, our members, for your private enjoyment only. Please don’t copy them to any streaming services or publish them in any way.)

Click here for Knox’s official Youtube playlist for our Spring concert, “The Peace of Wild Things.”

Here is an equivalent Spotify playlist (but lacking the piano-only version of Frostiana by the Harvard choir).

Here is a player for Frostiana by the Harvard University Choir, conducted by Edward Elwin Jones, 1959 (the last item in Knox’s Youtube playlist).

Holiday Concert

• Saturday & Sunday, December 9 & 10, 2023, 3:00 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Church in Kent, CT
• Rehearsals every Wednesday starting September 6, 2023, 7:00 p.m at St. Andrew’s

Spring Concert

• Sunday, March 10, 2024, 3:00 p.m. at St. Andrew’s Church in Kent, CT
• Rehearsals every Wednesday starting January 3, 2024, 7:00 p.m. at St. Andrew’s

Summer Concert

• Sunday, June 2, 2024, 3:00 p.m. at St. John’s Church in New Milford, CT
• Rehearsals every Wednesday starting March 13, 2024, 7:00 p.m. at St. John’s
• Rehearsal on March 27, 2024 will be sectionals