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Overview of our 2024 - 2025 Season
[Click here for information on upcoming May 2025 concert.]
On November 24, 2024 at 4: 00 PM, we opened our 49th season with "reverent praise". The program featured 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 were joined by a professional orchestra and soloists.
On March 8th, 2025, we joined forces with the Rivers Symphony Orchestra, professional soloists, and the Wellesley 6th Grade Treble Chorus, for a sold out performance of Carl Orff’s dramatic Carmina Burana. Our audience had an exilerating experience with this exploration of "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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Auditions
Our next auditions will be held by appointment in late August and early September, 2025. Details of dates and times will be posted here as soon as they are confirmed.
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).
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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