Let Music Fill the Air!

This is the opening piece of the Minnesota Chorale's Bridges concert, performed this past November at the SPCO.

MCTC Choirs present An Early Winter Concert Dec 9

Minneapolis Community and Technical College will present an Early Winter Concert featuring the MCTC Concert Choir and Vocal Ensemble Friday December 9 at 7:30 pm in the Whitney Fine Arts Theater, 1424 Yale Place, on the MCTC campus in downtown Minneapolis. The concert, directed by Dr. Elizabeth Pauly and accompanied by Christopher Wolter will feature the choirs’ characteristic blend of European art music with folk and traditional music from across the globe.  Pieces include compositions and arrangements by Alice Parker and Robert Shaw, Monte Mason, Harry Belafonte, and Giovanni Croce among others.  The choirs will be joined by guest artists percussionist Thomas Reimer and flautist Donna Hryniewicki.  A reception in the Fine Arts lobby will follow immediately after the concert. Light refreshments will be served.  Children are welcome.  Admission to this concert is free, but the choirs ask that you bring a non-perishable food donation that you may deposit in the marked bins outside the theater.  Food donations will go to the Hennepin County Emergency Food Network. 

Minnesota Chorale presents InChoir: Messiah Sing-a-Long

MESSIAH SING-A-LONG

Minnesota Chorale and soloists, 

Kathy Saltzman Romey, director

Lynn Trapp, organist

Sunday, December 4, 2011, 6:30-8:00PM

St. Olaf Catholic Church

215 S 8^th Street, downtown Mpls.

(free parking in the Energy Ramp at 3^rd Ave & 4^th St)

In this citywide event, everyone is invited to fill the air with the sounds of George Frideric Handel’s most famous creation, the much loved oratorio, Messiah.  Bring your own score or borrow one here. Come to sing-a-long with members of the Minnesota Chorale or just come to listen

Freewill offering taken. Reception follows.

Bernice Johnson Reagon on the Power of Collective Singing

Bernice Johnson Reagon, founding member of Sweet Honey in the Rock was interviewed on MPR's midmorninging today. She is a wonderful singer, scholar and teacher and has influenced many of us. This is an interview well worth your time.