Summit Chorale Announces its 2024-2025 Season

The artistic goals of Summit Chorale's 2024 Season focus greatly on commemorating the 80th Anniversary of events that took place during WWII. To that end, our season will provide a musical immersion into important works that both influenced the vocal music of the period as well as the music of the specific period itself. Our specific concerts for this include our Fall concert that will feature the music of composers living in France during WWII, focusing on Francis Poulenc's Soir de Neige, a powerful choral work about French Resistance fighters during WWII with words by Paul Elouard. This will tie into a focus on Jazz, one of the great controversial musical forms during the period in which we will perform Will Todd's Mass in Blue. Our December concert will take place two days before the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. For this, we will sing the popular Christmas songs of the time that people would have heard on the radio. We will reprise Un Soir de Neige, and perform Ralph Vaughan Williams' powerful Dona Nobis Pacem, a beautiful anthem for peace composed after WWI.

Our powerful Spring concert will feature Singet dem Herrn, a setting of Psalm 150 by German composer Hugo Distler, who, due to his depression about being forced into the National Party in Germany, committed suicide in 1942. We will also sing two songs of the Holocaust, "Ani Ma'amin" and "I Believe in the Sun" by New Jersey composer Mark Miller. This concert will culminate with Johannes Brahms' universal Ein Deutsches Requiem will memorialize all who were lost after the end of hostilities in the European theatre during WWII. Additionally, we will continue to commemorate September 11 with our traditional September 11th Memorial Sing of Mozart's iconic Requiem. On the lighter side, we will be bringing some popular music to our community, including our cABBAret (featuring the music of ABBA!) and a performance of Johann Strauss Jr.s Die Fledermaus. The Chorale will bring an incredible variety of music to our community during the 2024-25 season.

The Chorale meets eon Tuesday at 7:30 at St. John's Church in Summit, visit our website at www.summitchorale.org or if you are interested in joining, submit an application https://www.summitchorale.org/...

The Summit Chorale is currently preparing in collaboration with the Concord Singers to tour Germany and Czechia this Summer and are also hosting a free send off concert of the music on June 22nd at the Presbyterian Church of Chatham at 7:30pm, all are welcome to attend.