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SHANNON MACLEOD MIRAMICHI LEADER
There was hardly an empty seat in the James M. Hill Memorial High School the afternoon of Sunday, March 20, for a performance by Measha Brueggergosman.
The classically-trained soprano operatic singer was joined the New Brunswick Youth Orchestra, under the direction of Antonio Delgado, and composer-arranger Aaron Davis.
The 70-plus member orchestra opened the show with Emmanual Chabrier’s Espana, Rhapsody pour Orchestre and Pablo de Sarasate’s Introduction et Tarantelle, Op. 43.
Brueggergosman and Davis, on the piano, then joined them on stage for special renditions of African-American spiritual Songs of Freedom, such as “Wade in the Water,”“Amazing Grace,” “Go Tell It On The Mountain” and “Swing Low Sweet Chariot.”
The concert wrapped up with two movements from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 1 in G Minor:“Winter Daydreams.”
