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Tuesday, November 18, 1997     Page:

Rare cantata part of holiday program
   
The Lyric Consort will present a holiday program entitled “A Night of
    Snows,” including a rare performance of Francis Poulenc’s haunting
cantata,
   
“Un soir de neige.”
   
Composed in 1944 amid the bleak Christmas of an occupied France introduces
a program of music from the Middle Ages through the present day celebrating
the enduring mid-winter imagery and theology of the seasonThe concert will be
presented at 8 p.m. on Dec. 12 at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, 232 Wyoming
Ave., Scranton and at 8 p.m. on Dec. 13 at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 35
S. Franklin St., Wilkes-Barre.
   
Admission is $10 with discounts for students and senior citizens. WVIA
members will receive an admission discount for presenting their WVIA
membership card at the door.
   
For more information e-mail at [email protected] or call 587-5087.