Virginia Chorale 2009-2010 Season Lift Every Voice!

Sing in the Seasons:

Five Centuries of Songs for the Four Seasons
  • October 2, 2009 – 8:00 PM - First Presbyterian Church, Virginia Beach
  • October 3, 2009 – 8:00 PM – Trinity Episcopal Church, Portsmouth
  • October 4, 2009 – 3:00 PM – Williamsburg Presbyterian Church, Williamsburg

From beloved Renaissance madrigals celebrating Spring to American standards like “Autumn Leaves” our opening program is devoted to music inspired by the seasons of the year. Romantic folksongs of Debussy's cycle of miniature masterpieces, “The Three Songs of Charles d'Orleans” round out this festive program kicking off our 26th season with style, wit and flair!

Sweet was the Song:

Choral Classics for the Holidays
  • December 4, 2009 – 8:00 PM – Williamsburg Presbyterian Church, Williamsburg
  • December 5, 2009 – 3:00 PM – Christ & St. Luke's Church, Norfolk

Sing in the Holidays with the Virginia Chorale's most popular program! We continue our Britten Project with his earliest Christmas cantata, a series of carol settings entitled "Christ's Nativity". The central movement, "Sweet was the song the Virgin sang" would inspire his beloved "Ceremony of Carols." Along with popular songs and carols, we honor Mendelssohn's bicentennial with festive anthems of the season.

Ears Wide Open:

Celebrating Women in Music
  • March 5, 2010 – 8:00 PM – First Presbyterian Church, Norfolk
  • March 6, 2010 – 8:00 PM – First Presbyterian Church, Virginia Beach
  • March 7, 2010 – 3:00 PM – Williamsburg Presbyterian Church, Williamsburg

In conjunction with the Virginia Commission for the Arts statewide focus “Minds Wide Open, Celebrating Women in the Arts” we are honoring the voices of women composers from around the world. This program features some of the best music written by women in the US from the 19th century to today, including a world premiere by award-winning composer Deb Mason. Classics by the romantic composers Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Shumann join works from Australia, Ireland, and among others, Pakistan.

Perpetual Light

  • May 16, 2010 – 5:00 PM – Chrysler Museum, Norfolk
  • May 22, 2010 – 8:00 PM – Churchland Baptist Church, Chesapeake
  • May 30, 2010 – 3:00 PM – Williamsburg Presbyterian Church, Williamsburg

This program juxtaposes two masterpiece settings of the Requeim Mass for the beloved medium of the a cappella chorus. Tomas Luis da Victoria's setting is one of the masterworks of the Renaissance. Ildebrando Pizzetti, a little known Italian composer from the generation after Puccini, is indebted to Victoria and Palestrina, and his lush, romantic Requiem is every bit the masterpiece of his Renaissance ancestors'. The May 16th and 30th performances are presented in conjunction with the Virginia Arts Festival.

 

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