
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: FRIDAY, August 20, 1993                   TAG: 9309170413
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 12   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: JOE KENNEDY STAFF WRITER
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THEY'RE RAISING THEIR VOICES AGAIN

Canticum Novum, a 12-member, chamber singing group, will present its first concert in five years Sept. 5 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Andrew's Catholic Church in Roanoke.

Admission is free, but a free-will offering will be taken and donated to the American Red Cross for Midwest flood relief.

The group is directed by Jeffrey Sandborg, who founded it in 1987.

``The group sort of went into hibernation when I was working on my doctorate,'' says Sandborg, who is director of the Roanoke Valley Choral Society and a member of the music faculty at Roanoke College. Only recently has he had the time and energy to revive it.

The Sept. 5 concert will be the group's only one in the Roanoke area this summer. The repertory will include pieces by Parsons, Hassler, Sweelinck, Britten, Vaughan Williams, Ravel and Elgar. Sample pieces: ``Three Shakespeare Songs'' by Ralph Vaughan Williams and ``Hymn to St. Cecilia'' by Benjamin Britten.

``It's not `The Messiah,''' Sandborg says. ``It's not Mahler's `Second' or the Verdi `Requiem.' It's not a large, symphonic, choral repertory. It's the most sophisticated stuff we could possibly do with choral music.''

The members are sopranos Valerie Krupp, Lisa Poole and Marianne Sandborg; altos Meg English, Martha Moore and Ginger Weckstein; tenors Ran Minter, Larry Monahan and Bill Turner; and basses Hubert Firebaugh, Al Hagy and Nick Leitch.

by CNB