Fate and Earthly Pleasures

Saturday March 8, 2025 at 7pm

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Community and Connection

Sunday May 18, 2025 at 4pm

 
 
 
 
 

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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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Recent News

 

 

Carmina Burana With Orchestra!

Carmina Burana With Orchestra!

Audition in early January for this rare opportunity to sing Carmina Burana with orchestra!
Welcome to our new members!

Welcome to our new members!

We are delighted to welcome many new members!
Young Singers Program Successful!

Young Singers Program Successful!

Our new scholarships program made it easier for younger singers to consider joining Commonwealth Chorale.

2024 - 2025 Auditions​

Our next auditions will be held by appointment on January 7 and 14, 2025 from 5:30 to 6:45. We seek choral singers of all voice types who have strong vocal and sight-reading skills. We especially seek those singing tenor or bass.

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).

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The Dream Unfinished

Enjoy our May 2024 concert, featuring music of Florence Price, William Grant Still, Randall Thompson, Irving Berlin and others. Through this music we, and baritone Philip Lima, celebrate the ideals of the American Dream and the hope of a world where people of all backgrounds can coexist harmoniously.

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Our Sponsors

We are so thankful to the Massachusetts and Newton Cultural Councils for their generous financial support which helps make it possible for us to bring our music to you!

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