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Fauré, Folksongs and Freedom!

2008 Spring concert

The UGC Spring Concert will be held at the New Haven Lawn Club on Sunday May 4th at 4:00 P.M.

The program features Fauré's beautiful Cantique de Jean Racine, some gorgeous folksong settings, including the Gaelic Dulámán and Ron Jeffers' inspiring Working for the Dawn of Peace, Randall Thompson's The Testament of Freedom and several stirring patriotic themes.

Our special guest ensemble will be the outstanding Concert Choir from the Hopkins School under the direction of JoAnn Wich.

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Ethan Nash, Director of the Glee Club

Ethan Nash graduated from Yale University in 1997 with a Bachelors degree in music, and taught for five years as the Music Director at School of the Holy Child in Rye, NY. He is currently a candidate for the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in Choral Conducting at the Hartt School. He has recently conducted the Hartt Camerata in performances of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater and Benjamin Britten's Ceremony of Carols.

Ethan is an Adjunct Faculty member at both the Hartford Conservatory and Middlesex Community College and is a religious school songleader and Junior Choir/Theater director at Temple Sinai of Newington. Ethan has worked recently with the United Girls Choir of North Haven and the Choral Club of Hartford. He has previously served on the faculty of the Hartwick College Summer Music Festival, the Rye Arts Center and Larchmont Temple Religious School.

Ethan has sung with the Yale Glee Club, Manhattan's New Amsterdam Singers and the Zamir Chorale of Manhattan. He is active as a composer of choral and solo vocal music and his works have been performed by SHE, a Manhattan based vocal ensemble, as well as at schools and music camps.

Active in musical theater as well, Ethan has served as musical director for Norwich's Spirit of Broadway Theater, Wesleyan University's Center for Creative Youth, Connecticut Heritage Productions and in the New Haven Public School System. He has directed numerous musicals such as Into the Woods, Joseph, Godspell, Anything Goes, and Fiddler on the Roof.