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John W. Ehrlich

John W. Ehrlich
Music Director

On behalf of the Spectrum Singers, I’d like to welcome you to our Web site and invite you to learn more about one of Boston’s most adventurous choral groups. The Spectrum Singers perform choral music from the pre-Renaissance through the 20th century, emphasizing seldom-heard works by master composers. We encourage you to attend one of our upcoming concerts or to join our mailing list. And if you’re looking for a group to sing with, please consider auditioning for us.

 
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PRESS INFORMATION

April 15, 2010 - For Immediate Release

Young Soloists, World Premiere Highlight Spectrum Singers "Youthful Promise" Concert May 15th in Cambridge

The Spectrum Singers, John W. Ehrlich, Music Director, cap the celebration of their 30th Anniversary ƒƒƒ "Triple-Forte" concert season of ƒirsts, ƒavorites ƒutures with the world premiere of Joshua Hummel's Novum Decus Oritur. Also, Mozart's remarkable Missa Brevis in F, K. 192, composed when the composer was 18 years old will feature four young and talented vocal soloists selected from the studios of Boston's finest voice teachers.

"ƒutures: Rising Stars!" Saturday evening May 15, 2010, 8:00 PM at First Church, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge, celebrates extraordinary music written by established masters in their youthful years before they became famous. Works by Bartók, Brahms, Bach, Ives, Ligeti, Schubert, and Schütz will also be offered in addition to the Mozart and Hummel compositions listed above. A chamber ensemble of The Orchestra of Emmanuel Music and keyboard artist James Barkovic will accompany. A complete list of works, plus biographies of composer Joshua Hummel, Megan A. Bisceglia, soprano, Grace Allendorf, mezzo-soprano, Daniel Rosensweig, tenor, and Josh Taylor, bass-baritone can be viewed at www.spectrumsingers.org

Musicologist Steven Ledbetter will give a free pre-concert lecture at 7:00 PM.

Tickets are $45, $30, and $15, and can be purchased securely on-line at the chorus's web site www.spectrumsingers.org where program notes can also be viewed and further information obtained.

Noted musicologist Steven Ledbetter will offer a free pre-concert lecture at 7:00 PM.

Musicologist Steven Ledbetter will give a free pre-concert lecture at 7:00 PM. Tickets are $45, $30, and $15, and can be purchased securely on-line at the chorus's web site www.spectrumsingers.org where program notes can also be viewed and further information obtained.

From its first concert in December, 1980, The Spectrum Singers has embraced "amateur singers" – gifted vocalists who willingly perform without pay. Today, people from all walks of life sing with the chorus, many bringing significant experience and skills as choral and solo vocal artists. As a result, the chorus has prospered artistically, and today is widely regarded as one of the finest choral ensembles in the region.

Downloadable images of The Spectrum Singers, Joshua Hummel, and John W. Ehrlich are available below.

John W. Ehrlich, Founder and Music Director of The Spectrum Singers, has been active as a singer and conductor in the Boston and Cambridge areas for more than thirty-five years. Son of a concert pianist and a microbiologist, Mr. Ehrlich was born in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan, and prepared for higher education at Grosse Pointe University School and the New Hampton School. He studied music and conducting while attending the Hartt School of Music and Trinity College, and both Harvard and Boston Universities. His teachers include Robert Shaw, Gregg Smith, G. Wallace Woodworth, Nathan Gottschalk, and Vytautous Marijousius. Also a singer, Mr. Ehrlich has sung with the Hartford Chamber Choir, Tanglewood Festival Chorus, Cambridge Society for Early Music, John Oliver Chorale, Boston Baroque, Cantata Singers, and the Emmanuel Church choir. For eight seasons he was Music Director of the Master Singers of Worcester. This is Mr. Ehrlich’s 30th season as Music Director of The Spectrum Singers.

Note: Complete information about The Spectrum Singers' May 15, 2010 ƒutures:"Rising Stars" concert can be found on the Calendar page of the chorus's web site: www.spectrumsingers.org/calendar.htm



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"Compelling... unfailingly dramatic performances that grappled with real issues in the music and real issues the music is about."

—Richard Dyer,   
Boston Globe 
  

"One would be hard-pressed to find an amateur choral group in New England with a more adventurous spirit, higher musical standard and sense of serious purpose than John Ehrlich's Spectrum Singers...We marveled at Spectrum's resilience, pride and serious chops."

—Stephen Marc   
Beaudoin,   
Bay Windows 
  

"Rare beauty, full of dynamic nuances and distinguished by impeccable intonation."

—Howard Schott,   
Early Music News   

"The Spectrum singers brought... focused intensity to the soldiers and peasants they portrayed. They had a whole range of character to themselves, and they conveyed it perfectly."

—David Weininger,   
Boston Phoenix   

"Ehrlich and company offered a deeply felt performance... The chorus, which has made a specialty of singing without accompaniment, knows how to blend into a harmonious entity. The sweetness of tone was particularly evident in some of the quiet passages. When called upon, too, Ehrlich and his ensemble could produce hair-raising tumult."

—Ellen Pfeifer,   
Boston Globe   

"The singers sounded secure in even the most demanding passages."

—Richard Dyer,   
Boston Globe   

 
 
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