ALEXANDRIA-Soprano Marlissa Hudson will perform as soloist with the noted choral ensemble Choralis in a special concert entitled 'One World, One Voice' Saturday, October 30 at 7 P. M. in The Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center. (Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria Campus 3001 North Beauregard Street, Alexandria, VA)
The music of the concert celebrates the diversity of the world's many cultures through the universal language of music. Ms. Hudson will be featured with Choralis in a set of African-American spirituals. Also joining Ms. Hudson and Choralis will be the H. B. Woodlawn Chamber Singers under the direction of Bill Podolski
Founded by Artistic Director Gretchen Kuhrmann in 2000, the ensemble is an auditioned, 100-person mixed-voice chorus with a paid professional core. Lauded by The Washington Post as “fully professional in the power of its singing...the variety of its emotional flavors,” the ensemble has performed such choral masterworks as the Brahms Requiem, Orff’s Carmina Burana, Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms, Walton’s Belshazzar’s Feast, Haydn’s Creation, Verdi’s Requiem, and Mendelssohn’s Elijah. In 2004, Choralis performed the Washington-area premiere of John Rutter’s Mass of the Children.
American soprano Marlissa Hudson has been described as a “superb lyric coloratura” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). At home both on the operatic and concert stage, Ms. Hudson made her professional debut while a student, performing Summertime from Porgy and Bess with the Baltimore Symphony Pops Orchestra under the baton of Marvin Hamlisch. She later performed the entire role of Bess with Union Avenue Opera in St. Louis. Most recently, she was a featured soprano soloist for the chartering of the Ben Holt Memorial Branch of the National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc. in Washington, D. C., named for the late Metropolitan Opera baritone, Ben Holt who was a native of Washington, D. C. and made his Kennedy Center debut under the auspices of Young Concert Artists, Inc.
WHAT: 'One World, One Voice'
WHEN: Saturday, October 30 at 7 P.M.
WHERE: The Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center. (Northern Virginia Community College, Alexandria Campus 3001 North Beauregard Street, Alexandria, VA)
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