2009-2010 Season

Sing we now of Christmas

Featuring the Festival Singers

and Sing-Along

Friday, December 20th. 7 pm ~ Chemeketa Community College

Auditorium (Bldg. 6)

“Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.”
~ Bess Streeter Aldrich (1881-1954), American author, 'Song of Years'.

Carmina at Carnegie

Oktoberfest

Sept 18, 6:30 ~  St. Mary Church, Mt. Angel

Mozart Requiem with soloists and piano.

Songs for St. Cecilia’s Day

Nov 22, 4 pm ~ St. Mary Church, Mt. Angel

Come and get "tuned up" on St. Cecilia's Day, as we honor the patron saint of music and explore the Harmony of the Spheres through lecture and song. Instrumental accompaniment will include brass, oboe, and organ.

Songs for Travelers

March 7,  4:00 pm ~ Mission Mill Museum Spinning Room

by contemporary New England composer Charles Frink

a setting of Walt Whitman texts for mixed choir,

soprano soloist, and chamber ensemble.

In Praise of Music by mid-20th century composer Paul Hindemith

Martin Luther text, set for mixed choir

and chamber ensemble

The west-coast premiere of "Songs For Travelers", a piece on Walt Whitman texts by New England composer Charles Frink, paired with Paul Hindemith's "In Praise of Music" based on a Martin Luther text. Both works employ a small, quirky collection of instruments as accompaniment, and are rarely performed.

Carmina Burana   

Carl Orff

May15, 7:30 ~ At the Historic Elsinore Theater

setting for mixed choir, two pianos, percussion, soloists

Historic Elsinore Theatre, Salem, featuring the combined choirs of

Western Oregon University and Festival Chorale Oregon

The monumental, riveting work by Carl Orff utilizing the poems of medieval German monks. The selection covers a wide range of secular topics, as familiar in the 13th century as they are in the 21st: the fickleness of fortune and wealth, the ephemeral nature of life, the joy of the return of Spring, and the pleasures and perils of drinking, gluttony, gambling, and lust.

Special thanks to

Scott Webb

Photography

for many of the pictures provided for this web site.