Cleveland Pops Orchestra Chorus - A Celebration of Spring

The Celebration of Spring concert will include Whitacre’s With a Lily in Your Hand, Dello Joio’s Come to me My Love, Habenberg’s Awake, My Soul, Lauridsen’s Sure on this Shining Night, Garrett’s Soon I Will Be Done, Hayes’s You’ll Never Walk Alone and Kirchner’s Unclouded Day and more.

The Cleveland Pops Orchestra Chorus debuted at Severance Hall on Friday, November 2, 2012, in a concert of music by legendary song-writing teams in a performance titled “The Song Writing Giants of Broadway.” Donald Rosenberg, Cleveland Plain Dealer critic, in attendance at the debut concert, wrote, “The chorus will appear regularly with the orchestra, and for this Pops audiences can be truly grateful.”

Now in its twelfth season, the chorus meets every Monday evening at Cleveland State University. Originally created to partner with Carl Topilow and the Cleveland Pops Orchestra, the chorus has performed not only the greatest of Broadway, but significant choral and orchestral literature as well. In addition to performing regularly at Severance Hall with the Pops Orchestra, the chorus has also performed with the Cleveland Winds, the Cleveland Philharmonic, and twice with Andrea Bocelli and an audience of 16,000 at Rocket Arena.

This is a diverse group of individuals from all over the Cleveland area with one commonality; they all love to sing and share the joy of singing with others. Our membership includes a variety of singers with a variety of occupations: lawyer, businessmen and women, teachers and professors, and many fine music professionals and Cleveland area stage performers.