Chapel choir performs 'Faces of Mary'
Although the Princeton University Chapel is undergoing restoration, its chapel choir continues to be a vibrant force on and off campus.The Princeton University Chapel Choir will perform Friday night at the Princeton Theological Seminary, presenting a concert of poetry and music entitled "The Faces of Mary."The concert is the highlight of a two-day festival at the Seminary that hopes to provide clergy and laity with insight into Mary's role in both theology and the arts.Under the direction of Chapel music director Penna Rose, the 70-member group has prepared a 90-minute concert of music about Mary.The program features a varied repertoire, including Appalachian carols, African-American spirituals, Russian Orthodox hymns to the Virgin by Rachmaninoff and Chesnokov, Bruckner's Ave Maria and carols by Britten, Hoiby, Leighton and others.The music will be interspersed with readings of poems by Maya Angelou, Langston Hughes, Lucile Clifton, Christine de Pisan and Dorothy Parker.The performance is one of several concerts presented by the Chapel Choir this year in addition to performances at Sunday Chapel services as well as at special University services and events."The Faces of Mary" concert is open to the public.