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Choral Festival 2010: Sing with CONCORA

Location: Connecticut, USA
Choir type: Professional Choirs
Voicing: Mixed
Connecticut’s premier professional choir, CONCORA, invites experienced choral singers to apply for participation in Festival 2010, a weeklong choral workshop to be held July 18-24. The Festival offers adult singers from the community and select high school and college singers an opportunity to spend a week with Artistic Director Richard Coffey and CONCORA, preparing and performing great works of the choral repertoire. 100 or more people have made up the Festival chorus each summer since 1999.
The Festival schedule is designed with working people in mind: rehearsals begin on Sunday, July 18 from 3:00 pm - 6:00 pm., followed by an opening picnic. Subsequent rehearsals are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm, with a final dress rehearsal from 10:00 am - 12:30 pm on Saturday, July 24. The Festival culminates with a public concert on July 24 at 4:00 pm. All activities take place at Bethany Covenant Church, conveniently located just off I-91 in Berlin, Connecticut.
This year's Festival, “Choral Songs of Life & Love,” is subtitled “Impassioned Words and Music for Chorus, Soloists, and Piano.” The repertoire (subject to change) will be:
  • Robert Schumann – Zigeunerleben)(Op. 29, No. 3) (Emanuel Geibel)
  • A Love Song Trilogy by James Mulholland (“Down by the Salley Gardens” [Yeats], “Heart, We Will Forget Him” [Dickinson] and “A Red, Red Rose” [Burns])
  • Gwyneth Walker – "white horses" (e.e. cummings)
  • Norman Dello Joio – "Jubilant Song" (Walt Whitman)
  •  Johannes Brahms – Alto Rhapsody (Op. 53) (Goethe)
  • Gabriel Fauré – "Pavane" (Op. 50)
  • George Bizet – "Habanera" from Carmen
 Singers interested in participating are encouraged to download an application form at www.concora.org. You may also call us at (860) 224-7500 or send an email to contact@concora.org to obtain more details or request an application. The deadline to apply is May 15, 2010. Scholarships are available for qualified high school and college-age participants.
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