Singers participate at a past Princeton Society of Musical Amateurs session. (Photo from musicalamateurs.org)
The Princeton Society of Musical Amateurs welcomes singers of all levels to participate in a singing of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore on Sunday, January 11 at 3 p.m. at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Princeton, 50 Cherry Hill Road. It will be conducted by Lee Milhous.
The session begins at 3 p.m. and finishes by 6:30 p.m., with a refreshment break in the middle serving tea, coffee, and snacks. Interested persons are asked to check the website and Facebook page for updates.
Vocal scores will be provided, and the admission cost is $10 for singers (or annual membership for the monthly sings). Free for students and non-singing guests.
At the monthly events, members of the community gather for the “common and joyful enterprise of making music for their own pleasure, singing through the great works in choral literature with chorus, orchestra, and soloists as the works require,” according to musicalamateurs.org. There are no separate rehearsals and no auditions. Walk-in singers and listen-only guests are welcome at all sessions.
For further information email musical.amateurs@gmail.com.
Other sessions are on February 22 — Handel’s Ode to St. Cecilia’s Day and Randall Thompson’s Frostiana, with conductor Nicole Aldich; March 8 — Durufle’s Requiem and a Bach cantata, with conductor Christopher Jackson; and April 12 — Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, with conductor Matthew LaPine.





