The White Mountain Voices and White Mountain Youth Voices "A Classical Christmas" was well-received, with a packed house for the Littleton performance. Audiences were very appreciative of the wonderful quality of the Plymouth Strings accompaniment and were "wowed" by featured soprano soloist Hannah Murray. Artistic director Victoria Cole said, "We really raised the bar at these concerts." She noted that experienced listeners were impressed by the chorus's professional sound, including responsiveness, dynamic variation, and shaping of phrases. 

The White Mountain Youth Voices performed along with youth choristers from North Country Chorus. Their repetoire included a setting of Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" and a beautiful rendering of "The Water is Wide." 

James Rode has been appointed as Assistant Artistic Director for White Mountain Voices. Mr. Rode is an experienced choral director, with 20 years experience in K-12 settings and 8 years as the Artistic Director for the Orlando Gay Chorus. He has recently relocated to Whitefield, and has been singing in the White Mountain Voices bass section. His role as assistant artistic director will allow more flexibility for sectional rehearsals, will help advance the chorus's musical skills, and will help Ms. Cole to better realize the artistic vision for the chorus. We look forward to ongoing collaboration with James!

White Mountain Youth Voices recently hosted the North Country Chamber Players’ woodwind quintet for a performance workshop. The young singers enjoyed front row seats as the quintet performed several short pieces. The Youth Voices presented a setting of Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” with the original flute and piano accompaniment. The Youth Voices then enjoyed a challenge to sing parts of the piece using different vocal qualities to match the different tones as the various woodwinds played in place of the flute.

There was an opportunity for a wide-ranging discussion and questions from the Youth Voices to the musicians. Topics included building performance confidence, the use of various clefs in musical notation, breath control, and how much practice the musicians required at various points in their careers. White Mountain Youth Voices is very grateful for this collaboration with world-class musicians.
 

White Mountain Voices and White Mountain Youth Voices will present A New England Portrait on May 17 and 18 at 3 PM at the First Congregational Church in Littleton. The program will feature the Wedding Cantata by Massachusetts composer Daniel Pinkham along with musical settings of several of Robert Frost's poems and a hauntingly beautiful setting of sometime NH Poet Laureate Jane Kenyon's poem Let Evening Come.

The chorus is very excited to be performing Time Has Cast it All Far Back, a composition by Plymouth, NH composer Johnathan Santore based on a poem by Nathaniel Peabody Rogers. This piece, first performed in 2013, was comissioned for the Plymouth NH 250th Anniversary.

We hope that you will join us for our uniquely New England musical celebration!