CONCORA SUMMER FESTIVAL
JULY 18 – 24, 2010
BETHANY COVENANT CHURCH
BERLIN, CONNECTICUT
785 Mill St., Berlin
Concert Tickets:
$20 General Admission
“CHORAL SONGS OF LIFE AND LOVE”
IMPASSIONED WORDS AND MUSIC
FOR SOLOISTS, CHORUS, AND PIANO
CONCORA’s annual Summer Festival, now in its 12th year, offers adult singers from the community and select high school and college age singers an opportunity to spend a week with Maestro Richard Coffey and CONCORA, preparing and performing great works of choral repertoire.
Application Deadlines - Friday, May 21, 2010
- Singer Registration Form (pdf)
- Student Scholarship Application Form (pdf)
This Summer's Program
Robert Schumann (Emanuel Geibel) - Zigeunerleben - Opus 29, No. 3
James Mulholland - A Love Song Trilogy
- Down by the Salley Gardens (Yeats)
- Heart, We Will Forget Him (Dickinson)
- A Red, Red Rose (Burns)
Gwyneth Walker (e.e. cummings) - white horses
Norman Dello Joio (Whitman) - Jubilant Song for women’s voices
Johannes Brahms (Goethe) - Alto Rhapsody
- (Opus 53) for Alto Solo and men’s voices
Gabriel Fauré – Pavane (Opus 50)
Georges Bizet – Habañera from Carmen
- Rehearse and perform with Maestro Coffey and members of CONCORA
- Improve your choral singing skills
- Meet singers from across the state
- Rehearse evenings and weekends only
- Final public performance: Saturday, July 24
- Adult, high school, and college singers welcome to apply
- Scholarships available for select students
Schedule
Sunday, July 18
Bethany Covenant Church
785 Mill Street, Berlin, Connecticut 06037
1:30 – 2:45 p.m. Registration
3:00 – 6:00 p.m. Opening Rehearsal
6:15 – 8:00 p.m. Catered Supper
Bethany Church ‘Gathering’ Space
Monday, July 19
Bethany Covenant Church
7:00 – 10:00 p.m. Rehearsal
Wednesday, July 21
Bethany Covenant Church
7:00 – 10:00 p.m. Rehearsal
Ice Cream Social follows rehearsal
Friday, July 23
Bethany Covenant Church
7:00 – 10:00 p.m. Rehearsal
Saturday, July 24
Bethany Covenant Church
10:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Rehearsal
4:00 p.m. Performance
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“THE HIGHLIGHT OF OUR SUMMER!”
“ONE OF THE MOST MUSICALLY RICH EXPERIENCES OF MY LIFE!”
“EXCITING AND CHALLENGING.”
“I’VE BECOME A BETTER MUSICIAN.”
- Past Festival participants |
PAST CONCORA FESTIVAL PROGRAMS:
- 2009 Music of Maurice Duruflé
- 2008 The Contemporary Choral Song
- 2007 Great Music for Choir and Strings
- 2006 Carmina Burana
- 2005 Glorious Music for Choir and Organ
- 2004 Music for Double Choir
- 2003 Beethoven Symphony 9
- 2002 Handel Messiah, Part II
- 2001 Brahms Requiem
- 2000 Americana: Choral Legacy of the 20th Century
- 1999 Tribute to Robert Shaw
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