Calling all voices! If you love to sing, the Chester River Chorale wants you.
Join us in the Wesley Room of Chestertown’s Heron Point at 6 p.m. Monday, January 11, for the first rehearsal of our spring season. There are no auditions. We provide the music. All you need to bring is your voice, $40 for dues (students are free), and the desire to sing for the joy of it.
Regular Chorale practices are 7 p.m. Monday nights at Heron Point. All voices—soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, and bass—are welcome. If you are a newcomer and cannot make it on January 11, come on the 18th.
Douglas D. Cox, the Chorale’s artistic director, has put together an exciting 16th anniversary program for our spring concert in early April when we will collaborate with actors from Shore Shakespeare and the Chester River Youth Choir to celebrate the Bard’s music and words in a presentation sponsored by the Washington College Department of Music and Washington College Concert Series.
This year, some of us are once again adding our voices to the Chestertown Memorial Day Tea Party celebration with patriotic songs from the American Revolution to the civil rights struggle. And in June, we again join with other choruses under the direction of Maestro Richard Rosenberg for the National Music Festival at Washington College’s finale, which will feature Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and its “Ode to Joy.”
Under the professional leadership of Cox and accompanist Sammy Marshall, we amateur singers of the Chorale, drawn primarily from Kent and Queen Anne’s counties, have been playing to standing-room-only audiences at our concerts in recent years.
The Chester River Chorale is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization whose mission is to provide opportunity and inspiration for amateur singers to strive for artistic excellence. CRC performances entertain diverse audiences and enrich the cultural life of the community.
For more information, visit www.chesterriverchorale.org or the Chester River Chorale Facebook page. You may also call 410–928–5566.
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