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One more rehearsal until our 1st concert!
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Carnegie singers: Practice tracks and the vocal score for Ron's arrangement of the Maunder edition of the Agnus Dei are now available. The score "Mozart-Requiem-Maunder-Agnus Dei - Full Score" can be downloaded from the documents box below.
If you haven't already, print this out for rehearsal.
The practice tracks are available at each of the voice-specific practice pages.
Click here to play YouTube videos of the Maunder edition of the Requiem.
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Soloists - extra rehearsals:
Saturday, May 3, 9:30 to noon in Sugar Loaf (*).
* If you need directions to the location of this rehearsal
contact me at cholmes@warwickvalleychorale.org
Tuesday, May 6, at 6:30 pm at Warwick Reformed Church
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New ==> The rehearsal on Tuesday, May 13, will be with the orchestra that will accompany us the concerts in Middletown and Warwick (May 16 & 18). This rehearsal may last until 10:00 pm.
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Press release: WVC announces winners of the Stanley Curtis Memorial Scholarship and the dates and venues for its May concerts in Orange County.
First prize winner: Abigail Yurchuk, a junior at Warwick Valley High School
Second prize winner: Abigail Straebler, a senior at Port Jervis High School
Third prize winner: Taylor Longo, a senior at Valley Central High School.
See the documents box below for Warwick Valley Chorale Press Release Concerts Spring 2025.
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The WVC is returning to Carnegie Hall!
The WVC will perform the Mozart Requiem in a MidAmerica Productions concert in Carnegie Hall on Saturday afternoon, May 24th.
**** ==> WVC Treasurer Amelia DiCarlo is taking reservations for seats on the bus to/from rehearsals and the concert in NYC - 3 days. Please give Amelia a check for $180.00 per person made out to "Warwick Valley Chorale".
A detailed schedule for the rehearsal and concert activities in NYC can be found - here.
Tickets are on sale: Buy tickets to the concert for your family, friends, etc. - here.
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Click here to access practice tracks for the movements of the Requiem.
Sing along to Mozart's Requiem by watching these YouTube videos, here.
Click here.: to access the collection of practice aids for the solos.
Download this flier from the "documents" box below.
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Click here for maps and directions to these venues.
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The WVC will perform the Mozart Requiem on Saturday, June 7th, at 7:30 pm with the Cortlandt Chamber Orchestra ( https://www.cortlandtmusic.org/Cortlandt-Chamber-Orchestra/ . ) The concert will be held at the Holy Name of Mary Catholic Church – 110 Grand Street, Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520. Click here for a map and directions to this venue.
There will be at least one rehearsal with the orchestra prior to the concert.
Details to be announced - stay tuned.
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Update ==> April 22: Vienna Aubert and Cyndi Baldino are taking orders for these WVC t-shirts. Download an order form from the "documents" box below, fill out and give to these ladies at rehearsal tonight.
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Documents and other information about WVC's Spring 2025 Season
New ==> The vocal score for the Maunder edition of the Agnus Dei can be found in the box below: Mozart-Requiem-Maunder-Agnus Dei - Full Score.pdf
New ==> Also the new Warwick Valley Chorale Press Release Concerts Spring 2025 which announced the winners of the Stanley Curtis Memorial Scholarship.
Lose or misplace your Member Information Handout from registration. Download another copy from here.
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The Warwick Valley Chorale welcomes new members!
No auditions required.
If you are interested in joining us and would like to share our love of music and singing, please send an email to Zoey Savale: savazoo@hotmail.com
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The Warwick Valley Chorale is proud to sponsor The Stanley Curtis Memorial Scholarship for students aspiring to major in vocal studies at the college level. Click here for pertinent information.
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Warwick Valley Chorale is on facebook: Like us here!
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Show your support, donate and become a sponsor of the Warwick Valley Chorale.
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Singing with our friends in choral music.
On March 13, 2025, the Warwick Valley Chorale and Bellvale Community Choir and Orchestra collaborated to sing Hymn of Praise by Felix Mendelssohn, directed by Ron De Fesi. After a series of 5 rehearsals, the performance took place before a large and enthusiastic audience at the Bellvale Bruderhof Community. (https://www.bruderhof.com/bellvale)
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A look back at WVC's Fall 2024 Season
Ron De Fesi conducts the Warwick Valley Chorale in concert at St. Stephens Church, Dec 15, 2024.
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Documents for WVC's Fall 2024 Season:
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We’re excited to have presented a one-hour sampler of our holiday music at Warwick’s Albert Wisner Public Library (AWPL) on December 1, 2024.
This library offers a very popular free live music series called “Music on McFarland,” with performances in their 100-seat Community Room.
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Caroling in Sugar Loaf: Saturday, Dec. 14. WVC Carolers led by Gail Johnson brought joy to many establishments and people with everyone's favorite songs of the season.
WVC Carolers and friends in Sugar Loaf, NY, on Dec. 14, 2024.
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WVC visited a local nursing home and performed selections from the Fall 2024 program:
Saturday, December 28, 2024
1:15 - 2:30 Glen Arden Healthcare Center & Glen Arden Independent Living
214 Harriman Drive, Goshen
Performed in the Lobby and the Rhinebeck Room.
WVC singers entertain the residents of Glen Arden with holiday favorites, Dec.28, 2024.
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A look back at WVC's Spring 2024 Season
You can replay the May 10th concert at the Goshen CR Church: click here.
(The concert begins at about the 8-minute mark.)
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WVC performing at Grace Episcopal Church, Middletown, NY, on May 17, 2024. Photo by Donald G. Wilson
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Documents for WVC's Spring 2024 Season:
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On Saturday, Feb 24, 2024, an ensemble of singers from the Warwick Valley Chorale (below) participated in a performance of Gustav Holst's The Planets at Middletown's historic Paramount Theater. The SUNY Orange Community Orchestra performed the piece with the WVC ensemble led by Ron De Fesi singing the ethereal vocal lines in movement VII - Neptune, the Mystic.
Photo by Van Pisarri.
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A look back at WVC's Fall 2023 Season.
See the box below to download this WVC Christmas flier so you can print it and/or email to friends and relatives.
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See the notices in local newspapers about WVC's Dec. 2023 concerts:
Warwick Vallley Dispatch, Nov. 23
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The concert at the Goshen Church on Dec 8, can be viewed here: click here.
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The center piece of the Fall 2023 program was John Rutter's Magnificat.
John Rutter discusses the genesis of his 'Magnificat': an invaluable resource for all singers preparing the work for performance.
The WVC performed this work in Orange County in 2011 and 2023, at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center in June 2013, and again at Carnegie Hall in December 2023.
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Photos from the Magnificat concert at Carnegie Hall: Photographer Michael Vialogo took many, many photos during the Magnificat performance at CH on Dec 19, 2023. These photos can be found here! (Password is diatonic1.) One can purchase selected photos through this web site.
WVC singers at the entrance to Carnegie Hall and getting ready to perform Rutter's Magnificat, Dec. 19, 2023.
Important documents for WVC's Fall 2023 season:
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Here's a thought:
"A gentle reminder: The purpose of a rehearsal is to learn everyone else’s part… never your own! Your own preparation is your welcoming gift to your colleagues." -- Hilarie Clark Moore: composer, conductor, professor, musician and friend of the Warwick Valley Chorale.
Caroling during the Fall 2023 season:
Carol down the main streets of the villages, from store to store.
Caroling at Sugar Loaf: Saturday, Dec. 9.
WVC carolers making merry in Warwick on Nov. 26, 2023:
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1 in 6 Americans sings in a choir
— and they're healthier for it
Click here to find out why.
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Your Brain and Singing:
Why Singing in a Choir Makes You Happier
Click here to check out this article.
Thank you to Eloise Ham for bringing this article to our attention.
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One of WVC's favorite composers, John Rutter, on "the Importance of Choir"
The WVC has performed many of Mr. Rutter's works in our concerts in Orange County. Also many members of the WVC were privileged to have been conducted by John Rutter at Carnegie Hall in 2006.
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To celebrate their 75th anniversary, the WVC commissioned America's favorite composer, Gwyneth Walker, for this arrangement of Down to the River to Pray, which was premiered at their December 2015 concerts.
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We practiced and made it back - May 2010, May 2016, April 2018, June 2019 and Dec 2023!!
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Click Here and take a look back at the WVC's last several seasons.
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