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, September 8, for the first rehearsal of our fall 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.
Douglas D. Cox, the Chorale’s artistic director, has put together an exciting program for the Holiday Season that includes a resounding Gloria, traditional Christmas carols, and Jewish holiday music. A brass ensemble, organ, piano, and strings will provide a triumphant accompaniment. Collaborating with the Chorale will be the Chester River Youth Choir, founded and directed by Julie Lawrence.
Regular Chorale practices are 7 p.m. Monday nights at Heron Point. All voices are welcome, including first and second soprano, first and second alto, first and second tenor, baritone, and bass.
Under the professional leadership of Cox and accompanist Sam 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.
After our regular fall and spring concerts, many of us participated in the National Music Festival, joining with other choruses to sing Verdi’s Requiem in June. And Chorale members backed the soloists singing hit songs from Broadway musicals in Mark Bramble’s Showstoppers II in July that benefited the Horizons Program.
So while learning the program can take some work, singing it can be more fun than the law should allow.
For more information visit www.chesterriverchorale.org or call 410–928–5566.
The Chester River Chorale is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization funded in part by Yerkes Construction Co., the Hedgelawn Foundation, the Kent County Arts Council and the Maryland State Arts Council, an agency dedicated to cultivating a vibrant cultural community where the arts thrive. The CRC’s 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.
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