2004 - 2005 Concert Season: New Music for the Choral World

Vanguard Voices will bring several new and dynamic works into the choral repertoire this season. Augustus O. Hill’s exciting and rhythmic Psalms Of Praise – a piece commissioned in 2004 – will premiere in December. In June, the top award winners in the Vanguard Premieres choral composition contest will receive their first public performances. Choral Suite by American composer Larry A. Christiansen sets to
music five poems penned by different writers. Peruvian composer Antonio Gervasoni’s A-nir matches an ancient Sumerian text to driving and intense
seven-part harmonies. Other outstanding entries from Vanguard Premieres also will debut throughout the season.

Dearborn Holiday Choral Festival

Featuring world premiere performances of Vanguard Premieres compositions
Augustus O. Hill Song of Reflection & Psalms of Praise (commission)
Honorable mention works by Dan Forrest, Edmund Jolliffe, Frank La Rocca, Ryan Neaveill (2004 contest)

Vanguard Voices – G. Kevin Dewey, Director
Dearborn Community Chorus – Steven H. Olsen, Director
Vanguard Brass Ensemble

Friday, December 18, 2004, 8 p.m.
Ford Community & Performing Arts Center
15801 Michigan Avenue, Dearborn

HFCC President’s Collage Concert

Vanguard Voices
Choral and Instrumental Ensembles from Henry Ford Community College

Saturday, February 26, 2005, 8 p.m.
Ford Community & Performing Arts Center
15801 Michigan Avenue, Dearborn

Choral Fantasia

Featuring
Beethoven Fantasia in C Minor
Borodin Polovtsian Dances

Vanguard Voices – G. Kevin Dewey Director
Seaway Chorale – Aaron Kaleniecki, Director
Southern Great Lakes Symphony – Charles Greenwell, Conductor

Sunday, March 20, 2005, 3 p.m.
Flat Rock High School Community Auditorium
28100 Aspen Drive, Flat Rock

“Joy Spring”

Cabaret Concert & Dance

Vanguard Voices, Vocal Solos and Ensembles
Henry Ford Big Band – Rick L. Goward, Director

Saturday, April 9, 2005, 8 p.m.
Pavilion, Student & Culinary Arts Center
Henry Ford Community College
5101 Evergreen Road, Dearborn

Stratford Concert Tour

Vanguard Voices – G. Kevin Dewey, Director

May 20-22, 2005
Stratford, Ontario, Canada

Vanguard Premieres Concert

World premiere performances from the 2004 contest

Featuring
Larry Christiansen Choral Suite (contest winner)
Antonio Gervasoni A-nir (contest winner)
Honorable mention works by Mark Dal Porto, Frank La Rocca, Dan Pinkston, Alan Smith, John White

Vanguard Voices & Brass – G. Kevin Dewey, Director

Sunday, June 5, 2005, 4 p.m.
Ford Community & Performing Arts Center
15801 Michigan Avenue, Dearborn