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Peabody Children’s Chorus

Peabody Children’s Chorus

JEFF ROFFMAN

The Peabody Children’s Chorus, founded
in 1989, provides age-appropriate vocal
training for young people, bringing
children together to rehearse and
perform music of multiple cultures,
languages, historical periods and styles.
In six ensembles rehearsing in Towson
or Columbia, MD, young people make
music in ensemble settings, and studying
ear-training and music-reading.
Four hundred children ages 6 to 18
participate each year in three levels of
training, rehearsing high quality treble
music of advancing challenge and

sophistication, and performing in public
concert at least twice a year.
The Chorus has joined the Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of
Maestra Marin Alsop for performances of
Bernstein’s Mass, Honegger’s Jeanne d’Arc
au bûcher, Britten’s War Requiem, Mahler’s
Third Symphony, Orff’s Carmina burana,
and Adams’ On The Transmigration of
Souls, at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall
and at Strathmore, at The Kennedy Center
in Washington, D.C. and at Carnegie Hall. 
The Grammy-nominated Naxos American
Classics recording of Bernstein’s Mass was
released in 2009.
The chorus has also performed with
the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, Lyric
Opera Baltimore, the Mid-Atlantic
Symphony Orchestra, Peabody Symphony
Orchestra and many others, and has
performed at St. Paul’s Cathedral, London;
Wells Cathedral, Wells; St. Peter’s Basilica,
Rome; St. Mark’s Cathedral, Venice; the
Stephansdom, Vienna; the American
Cemetery, Normandy; Notre Dame

Cathedral and in the Dimanches Musicaux
de La Madeleine Concert Series, Paris.
The Peabody Children’s Chorus
last appeared with the BSO in January
2015, performing Mahler Symphony
No. 3, Marin Alsop, conductor.

About the concert:
Unsung

Lori Laitman
Born in Long Beach, New York, January 12, 1955

Composer’s statement: “Unsung, commissioned by The Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra to commemorate its 100th
anniversary, was inspired by the following 
suggestion from a BSO audience member: 
‘The BSO consists of wonderful musicians
whose brilliance is often submerged in
tutti passages. Let’s hear from them!’
The piece is essentially a ‘song without
words,’ expanded to incorporate the

HAVE A NIGHT OUT.
IT’S ON US.
All concerts at Peabody are now FREE,
from classical to contemporary to jazz.
Highlights this fall include:

• Peabody Symphony Orchestra

with guest conductor LEON FLEISHER
Saturday, September 24 at 8:00 pm

• Peabody Concert Orchestra

with guest conductor JOSEPH YOUNG (pictured)
Friday, October 7 at 8:00 pm

• Peabody Conductors Orchestra

with graduate conducting students
under the instruction of MARIN ALSOP
Wednesday, November 30 at 7:30 pm

Find your favorites at peabody.jhu.edu,
or by calling 667-208-6620.

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