Copenhagen Choir to stage humanitarian concert Thursday

BELGRADE - As part of its Balkan tour, the Copenhagen Music Choir, directed by Ole Reuss Schmidt, will stage a humanitarian concert at the Slavija Theatre in Belgrade on Thursday evening.

The choir will continue its international tour by May 30 in Croatia, Montenegro, Albania and Macedonia, Batric Zarkovic, Slavija Theatre founder and director, has said.

Piano Eva Gaarn and 33 choir members will perform in the concert for free, and the audience will donate money for flood-affected people in Serbia.

The program will include classical choir music: two anthems by George Frideric Handel, seven movements of Gloria by Antonio Vivaldi, two Danish church anthems by Christopher Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Swedish traditional music, and vocal pieces by Johann Krieger, Felix Mendelssohn and Carl Nielsen.