A Look Back at WVC's Spring 2018 Season
Warwick Valley Chorale's fantastic Spring 2018 Season:
Carnegie Hall, Faure Requiem, John Rutter Songs, and Paris.
The May concerts, directed by Stanley Curtis and accompanied by Gail Johnson, presented Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem.
A special tribute to the music of renowned English composer and conductor John Rutter was also featured.
Click here to view and download this concert flier.
Barbara Bedell of the Times Herald-Record has this to say about WVC's concerts.
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Music Program for WVC's Spring 2018 Season
Requiem Gabriel Fauré
- Intermission -
O clap your hands Text: Psalm 47 1-7, Music by John Rutter
As The Bridegroom To His Chosen Text by J. Tauler (1300-61), Music by John Rutter
All Things Bright and Beautiful C. F. Alexander, arr. by John Rutter
The Lord is My Shepherd Text: Psalm 23, Music by John Rutter
Look at the World Text and Music by John Rutter
God be in my Head Text from the Sarum Primer (1574), Music by John Rutter
Look to the Day John Rutter
The Lord bless you and keep you Text: Numbers 6:24, Music by John Rutter
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WVC's Triumphant Return - April 23rd, 2018!
Photo by Chris Hart
The WVC joined six other choruses in Carnegie Hall and performed Gabriel Fauré's Requiem
under the baton of David Gresham. See MidAmerica Productions.
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Members of the WVC travelled to Paris in June 2018 and performed Fauré's Requiem as well as Gounod's Requiem
in the gorgeous La Madeleine, Gabriel Fauré's and Charles Gounod's home church.
Click here for more info including videos of the concert.
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WVC events Summer 2018
On June 26th and July 31st, 2018, members of the Warwick Valley Chorale sang at several area nursing homes and retirement communities.
4 Rutter selections (that were performed in the May 2018 concerts):
All Things Bright and Beautiful
The Lord is my shepherd
Look at the World
The Lord bless you and keep you
And a sing-along with the residents of popular British tunes including:
God Save the Queen
Scarborough Fair
White Cliffs of Dover
I’m Henry VIII, I Am
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Members of the WVC and accompanist, Gail Johnson, at The Promenade in Middletown, NY, on June 26, 2018.