2018 CONCORA Summer Festival
Comments from participants in the 2018 Summer Festival:
"One of the highlights of my summer. Working with Chris is amazing. And this year, I met several women who all want to stay in touch between now and next year's festival." "Chris's direction makes the music come to life." "It was a great experience, Chris offers so many helpful suggestions for singers and the music selections are great." "Tremendous! I learned so much and the long rehearsals just flew by!" "This was an exceptional experience in so many ways. I feel honored to have been a participant." |
From July 29 - August 4, 2018 CONCORA and friends came together at the CONCORA Summer Festival to sing and celebrate the life and works of Leonard Bernstein, a man who left his mark on the American musical landscape as a composer, conductor, pianist, educator, and humanitarian. The 98 members of the Summer Festival choir rehearsed and socialized over the course of the week, finding a musical respite in the midst of a busy and hot summer. The culmination of the week was the lively concert attended by 300 guests on Saturday, August 4. The concert took place just a few weeks before the 100th anniversary of Bernstein's birth on August 25 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Representing Bernstein's life in the theater, we sang music from West Side Story, Wonderful Town, Peter Pan, and Candide. We also performed an abridged version of Bernstein's Mass, one of the most significant choral works of the 20th century.
We hope you will be able to join us next year! 
The 2017 Summer Festival Chorus
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A History of the CONCORA
Summer Choral Festival
2018 Wonderful Town! A Bernstein Centenary
2017 Exploring the Great Choral Masterworks
2016 A Serenade to Music: Choral Settings of Shakespeare
2015 Come, Let us Sing with Melody! (with Guest Conductor Joseph D’Eugenio)
2014 Musical Pairs: Music of Europe and America (with Guest Conductor Dr. Pamela J. Perry)
2013 Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
2012 Music of Celebration and Solace
2011 Choral Classics Plus!
2010 Choral Songs of Life and Love
2009 Maurice Duruflé: Requiem
2008 The Contemporary Choral Song
2007 Great Music for Strings and Choir
2006 Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
2005 Music for a Sacred Space
2004 Great Music for Double Choir
2003 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony IX, with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra
2002 George Frideric Handel: Messiah, Part II
2001 Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
2000 Music of America, a program of choral music by American composers
1999 A Tribute to Robert Shaw, honoring the legendary maestro and his choral legacy
2017 Exploring the Great Choral Masterworks
2016 A Serenade to Music: Choral Settings of Shakespeare
2015 Come, Let us Sing with Melody! (with Guest Conductor Joseph D’Eugenio)
2014 Musical Pairs: Music of Europe and America (with Guest Conductor Dr. Pamela J. Perry)
2013 Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
2012 Music of Celebration and Solace
2011 Choral Classics Plus!
2010 Choral Songs of Life and Love
2009 Maurice Duruflé: Requiem
2008 The Contemporary Choral Song
2007 Great Music for Strings and Choir
2006 Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
2005 Music for a Sacred Space
2004 Great Music for Double Choir
2003 Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony IX, with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra
2002 George Frideric Handel: Messiah, Part II
2001 Johannes Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem
2000 Music of America, a program of choral music by American composers
1999 A Tribute to Robert Shaw, honoring the legendary maestro and his choral legacy