Choral Society Explores New Vocal Territory

The Choral Society of the Hamptons will perform “Frost, Love And Jazz,” at the East Hampton Presbyterian Church on Sunday, April 7, at 5 p.m.

The concert will include arrangements of Robert Frost poems, Hebrew love songs, jazz standards and a swinging mass, combining rich harmonies and jazz rhythms with moving texts and jazz interpretations of standards from the American songbook. The show’s featured work will be the first East Hampton performance of “A Little Jazz Mass,” which sets the text of the “Latin Missa Brevis” in jazz meters and chords, accompanied by trio of piano, bass and drums. In addition, pianist Jane Hastay, bassist Peter Martin Weiss, and saxophonist Richard Scollo will play several numbers.

Jennifer Scott Miceli is the guest conductor. An expert on choral jazz and the head of the Department of Music at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University, Ms. Miceli also directs the Long Island Sound Vocal Jazz Ensemble.

A fund-raising reception with the performers will follow the program at the Palm restaurant at the Huntting Inn in East Hampton.

Tickets to the concert are $25 in advance and $35 at the door, or $10 and $15 for youth tickets. Preferred seating tickets are $50. Purchase tickets from Choral Society members and at Romany Kramoris Gallery in Sag Harbor. For additional information, or to purchase tickets for the reception, visit choralsocietyofthehamptons.org or call 204-9402.