Joseph Holmes Featured Soloist in Polymnia Concert

Wakefield resident Joseph Holmes will be a soloist as Polymnia Choral Society performs the Mozart Requiem Saturday, March 8, at 7:30 pm at St. Mary’s, 46 Myrtle Street in Melrose. The chorus will also premier As If, a lyric work by internationally known composer Demetrius Spaneas.

 Other soloists for the Requiem will be popular local favorites Adriana Repetto, Eileen Christiansen, and Dana Whiteside.  A professional orchestra will accompany the chorus. Polymnia’s new chorus-within-a-chorus, the Chamber Choir, will perform Beethoven’s Elegiac Song for chorus and strings.

Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for students and seniors, and $5 for children 12 and under.  They can be purchased at www.polymnia.org or at Miter Biter Frame Company, 479 Main Street, or Sweet Thoughts, 504 Main St., Melrose. 

This concert is partially supported by grants from the Melrose Messina Fund for the Arts and by the Melrose Cultural Council, a local agency of the Massachusetts Cultural Council.