Marquette Choral Society will begin its Fall 2024 season with its first rehearsal and membership sign-up at 7 p.m., Monday, August 26, in the Choral Room in the Thomas Fine Arts Building on the NMU campus.
No audition is required. Members may join August 26, September 9, and September 16. (No rehearsal on Labor Day) Registration starts at 6 p.m., before rehearsal from 7 to 9 p.m. Fees and music costs are $65. Some scholarships are available. Choral Society is also available for NMU Credit.
This semester’s concerts will be December 7 and 8, in the Reynolds Recital Hall. The featured work will be John Rutter’s “Magnificat,” with soprano soloist Amanda Boundy and chamber orchestra. Other winter-themed works will include “On a Winter’s Night” by Karen P. Thomas; “Ave Maria” by Javier Busto; “The Rune of Hospitality” by Alf Hakoum; “Winter Suite: Six Songs Without Words, Opus 19…With Words,” based on music by Felix Mendelssohn and text by Laurie Betts Hughes; and “Christmas is Coming” arranged by Mack Wilberg with four hand piano accompaniment.
Members will also have the opportunity to perform with the Marquette Symphony Orchestra on December 14, as well as at the Community Christmas Sing-along on December 20.
Marquette Choral Society is a mixed-voice, non-auditioned, adult choir of approximately 100 singers from a four-county region in the Upper Peninsula. MCS strives to engage, enrich, and inspire this region through the art of choral music. The ensemble was founded in 1971 by Dr. William Dehning and is currently led by musical director Dr. Erin Colwitz.
For more information, please visit www.facebook.com/MarquetteChoralSociety, www.marquettechoralsociety.org, or email choralsociety906@gmail.com.