Sounds Choral this week features the theme "For the Beauty of the Earth." Host Steven Sametz will present music by Handel, Thomas Weelkes and Frank Ticheli, as well as his own piece, "For the Earth." Listen Sunday (10/10) at 2 pm.
Composer and conductor Steven Sametz serves as the Artistic Director of the professional chamber choir The Princeton Singers and is Director of Choral Activities at Lehigh University. He has appeared as guest conductor with the New York Chamber Symphony, the Taipei Philharmonic Foundation, the Berkshire Music Festival and the Netherlands Radio Choir appearing in such venues as Avery Fisher Hall, the Schubertsaal at the Vienna State Opera House, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Hall (Russia), Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall (Taipei) and Berlin Philharmonic Hall.