Overview of our 2024 - 2025 Season
On November 24, 2024 at 4: 00 PM, we open our 49th season with "reverent praise". This concert program features Johann Sebastian Bach’s beloved Magnificat and compositions by two well-known contemporary British composers: Jonathan Dove’s Köthener Messe and Cecilia McDowall's Laudate. Both Dove’s and McDowall’s compositions pay tribute to and reflect Bach’s influences while incorporating modern harmonies and techniques. We will be joined by a professional orchestra and soloists.
On March 8th, 2025 at 7:00 PM, we will join forces with the Rivers Symphony Orchestra and professional soloists to explore "fate and earthly pleasures" through Carl Orff’s dramatic Carmina Burana! Orff’s composition is an auditory feast of songs based on poems from the 11th and 12th centuries that playfully explore "fate and earthly pleasures".
We conclude our season on May 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM by celebrating "community and connection" through the diversity of American folk songs. Our program includes a selection of Aaron Copland’s Old American Songs, Nathaniel Dett’s Chariot Jubilee and a selection of Alice Parker’s (this season’s Commonwealth Composer) folk song and spiritual arrangements. We will be accompanied by a small chamber instrumental ensemble and piano and/or organ.
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2024 - 2025 Auditions
We seek choral singers of all voice types who have strong vocal and sight-reading skills. We especially seek those singing tenor or bass.
Our next auditions will be held by appointment in early January 2025. The audition dates and times will be posted here as soon as they are available.
Auditions are at our rehearsal location at First Baptist Church, 848 Beacon Street in Newton Centre, a few minutes walk from the Newton Centre stop on the "D" branch of the MBTA's Green Line. There is also free parking in the church parking lot (accessed of Centre Street).
To request an audition and to learn more about our Young Singers Scholarship program, tap or click on the "Read More" button below.
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