For the WVC Members
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*** Our concert at St. Stephen RC Church will be streamed live!
Click here to view the concert live!
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See the notice in the Warwick Advertiser about WVC's upcoming concerts: Click here.
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*** Click here to view the order of the music pieces for the upcoming concerts.
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*** Note: the Tenors and Basses will be singing the last movement of Britten's Ceremony - Recession. The Sopranos and Altos will not sing in that movement.
*** Download, print, send, hand out, etc. the WVC's Holiday Concert flier. See the "Information and documents" box below.
*** Pieces removed from previous versions of the music program: Silver Bells, Twas The Night Before Christmas, Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Sleigh Ride and The Christmas Song. Return your scores for these pieces to the Librarian, Viviana Holmes.
*** There are links to YouTube videos of many of the pieces in the "Holiday" section of the music program. These links can be found near the bottom of this page: here. Also: Click here to sing along with recordings from previous WVC concerts of many of these Holiday favorites.
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Schedule Summary
(Details are subject to change - stay posted to this page.)
Saturday, Dec 13: Caroling in Sugar Loaf (*) - 1:00 to about 2:00 pm.
Assemble in front of the Methodist Church by 1 pm.
Lots of free parking behind the church.
Sunday, Dec 14: WVC Holiday Concert in Warwick at St. Stephen RC Church.
Chorus Call: 1 pm; concert starts at 2 pm
Click here to view the concert live!
Click here for directions.
Tuesday, Dec 16: WVC's Annual Ceili (*).
At Silvio's Italian Villa,
274 NY-94, Warwick, NY 10990, at 6:30 pm.
Cost of a ticket is $65.00
Fri., Dec 19: Bring holiday cheer to area nursing homes. (*)
Valley View Center, 2 Glenmere Cove Road, Goshen from 2:00 - 2:30 pm,
Schervier Pavilion, 22 Van Duzer Place, Warwick from 3:00 - 3:30 pm and
Liberty Green, 2 Liberty Ct, Warwick, from 3:45 - 4:15 pm.
Ron will direct us, Gail will accompany us, and we'll sing a few of our "Second Half" selections.
Tuesday, Jan (tba) 2026: Start of WVC's Spring 2026 Season at Warwick Reformed Church!
Return your music from the Fall 2025 season during registration.
(*) Optional WVC activity.
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Click here to go to pages about the Fall 2025 musical program including the music scores, practice tracks, links to videos and recordings.
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On Sunday, Nov. 23, WVC members led by Gail Johnson strolled through downtown Warwick and sang Christmas carols to passersby and in local establishments and stores as part of Warwick's Home for the Holidays celebration. Click here to see Warwick Advertiser's article about Home for the Holidays.
WVC Carollers at Warwick's Home for the Holidays, Nov. 23, 2025.
WVC Carollers at the conclusion of a great afternoon of entertaining in Warwick, Nov 23, 2025.
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For maps and directions to the venues for WVC's December 2025 concerts, click here.
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Information and documents for the Fall 2025 season:
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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 have sponsored 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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A look back at the terrific Spring season 2025:
Saturday, June 7th - Concert w/ the Cortlandt Chamber Orchestra. (https://www.cortlandtmusic.org/Cortlandt-Chamber-Orchestra/) at the Holy Name of Mary Catholic Church – 110 Grand Street, Croton-on-Hudson, NY 10520. *******************
Bravi Tutti
The WVC along with choirs from Australia and Singapore and accompanied by the New England Symphonic Ensemble perform the Mozart Requiem under the baton of Margaret Pride on May 24, 2025
Photo by David Mow
On stage - let the concert begin. Photo by Van Pisarri
WVC singers arrive at Caregie Hall in the morning of May 24, 2025, for the dress rehearsal and afternoon performance of the Mozart Requiem.
Fantastic performance in Warwick. 👏 🏆 🔟
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Press release: WVC announced 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".
Click here for the article about WVC's concert series in the Warwick Advertiser.
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Maestro De Fesi conducts the WVC Chorus and Orchestra at St. Stephens RC Church, May 18, 2025.
Photo by Van Pisarri
WVC warming up for concert at St. Stephens RC Church, Warwick Photo by Van Pisarri
WVC Chorus and Orchestra receives a standing ovation for their performance at the Middletown's Grace Episcopal Church, May 16, 2025.
Photo by Van Pisarri
WVC Chorus and Orchestra at Middletown's Grace Episcopal Church, May 16, 2025.
Photo by Van Pisarri
WVC Chorus performs the Mozart Requiem at the Goshen Church, May 9, 2025.
Photo by Van Pisarri
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Documents and other information about WVC's Spring 2025 Season
including 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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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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