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By Nicole Seiferth

This March, the Trinity Choir will be singing a familiar early music work in a unique setting. The choir will be in Moscow for several days to provide the music for the renowned Mark Morris Dance Group's performance of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.

Mark Morris is known for his insistence on using live orchestras and singers with his dances – an unusual requirement in the dance world. After attending several Trinity Choir concerts conducted by Jane Glover, Morris contacted Trinity about the possibility of the choir working with the Dance Group.

The performances will be part of Moscow's Golden Mask Theatre Festival, an appropriate place for a dance director like Morris, who, according to the New York Times, "stretches our ideas of what dance theater can be and do."

The Trinity Choir sang Dido and Aeneas in its entirety as part of their concert season several years ago. The difference, of course, is that for these performances, the choir will be in the orchestra pit.

"The action is the dancers," Trinity music associate Richard Lippold said, "and we are the soundtrack."

It will be an intense trip for dancers and musicians, alike. There will be two rehearsals in New York before leaving for Moscow on March 21, rehearsals in Russia, and then two performances on March 24 and 25. The choir returns to New York on March 26, just in time for Holy Week at Trinity.

"In fact," Lippold said, "we're having a Holy Week rehearsal in Moscow at the theatre."

Nicole Seiferth is assistant editor for website and parish publications.

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