American Treasures
Singers’ debut CD:
The Prairie by Lukas Foss
Lukas Foss was 19 when he encountered Carl Sandburg’s gritty 1918 epic poem The Prairie. As a young immigrant, Foss recognized an energy and optimism in Sandburg’s factory workers, lumberjacks, farmhands, prairie girls, and city builders and immediately began composing a musical setting. Robert Shaw presented the world première on May 15, 1944.
In March 2007, the Providence Singers, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and soloists gave The Prairie its first performance in more than 20 years, reintroducing the work to American audiences in an “American Treasures” concert. The Singers and guest artists recorded the work a week later. That recording — the Singers’s first commercial CD — is now available on the BMOP sound label.
Download CD booklet (pdf) | About the concert | BMOP sound | 
With a successful round of auditions under its belt, the Junior Providence Singers, our chorus for singers of high-school age, is now 40 voices strong and ready to begin work on the March concert. The JPS rehearses weekly on Tuesday evenings beginning January 6. We can still make room for a few more voices in all sections, O ye tenors and ye basses. Call