A chorus I'm part of, New Century Voices, has a few concerts coming up. NCV is a group of about 10 singers. We sing 20th and 21st century music (but it isn't all weird or atonal).

8:00pm Tuesday, May 4, 2004: Pickman Concert Hall, Longy School of Music, 27 Garden St., Cambridge. The concert consists entirely of music composed by Longy students and several musicians/ensembles will perform. We will premiere a work by Elizabeth Knight called Aeolian Harp. Free.

8:00pm Friday, May 7: Room N1 at the Rey-Waldstein Building, Longy School of Music, 33 Garden St., Cambridge. This concert features Longy Continuing Studies students, including our director Allegra Martin. At this concert we will be performing Jukebox Love Song, a wonderful jazzy setting of Langston Hughes' poetry by David Little; Lapides Vivi, a quasi-chant by William Whitley; and 4 Cats by our own Michael Veloso, a set of short musical settings of cat haikus. Also free.

5:00pm Sunday, May 16: King's Chapel, 58 Tremont St., Boston. We will be one of four local choirs in the twenty-third Composers in Red Sneakers Choralfest. All choirs will perform twenty-first century music by Boston-area composers. At corner of School & Tremont Streets downtown, near Gov't Center, State St, and Park St T stops. $12 general admission, $8 students & seniors.

Stay tuned for news of an all-NCV concert in the next month or two, featuring a much larger slice of our repertoire.