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Mimi
S. Daitz, Music Director
Mimi
Daitz has been Music Director of the RCS since September 1997. She
was a faculty member of the Music Department at the City College,
CUNY for many years. At the college she conducted both its Chorus
and Vocal Ensemble, leading them in standard works and rarities
of the choral repertoire. Professor Daitz has also been active as
a musicologist. Her areas of research and publication have been
turn-of-the-century French vocal music and, more recently, Estonian
choral music. She is currently writing a biography of Veljo Tormis,
an Estonian composer whose choral works helped inspire Estonia's
independence movement. |
John
Lettieri, Accompanist
Accompanist John Lettieri performs extensively throughout the New
York metropolitan area as a pianist, organist, harpsichordist, and
conductor. Besides serving as accompanist for the Riverdale Choral
Society, he is the organist and music director for Christ Church
in Pelham Manor and Temple Emmanuel in Great Neck. He also performs
regularly on the organ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In Riverdale,
John Lettieri is an adjunct professor at the College of Mount St.
Vincent, where he teaches music. He is an Associate of the American
Guild of Organists and holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees from
the Manhattan School of Music. |
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