HISTORY
Founded
in 1950 and modeled after Robert Shaw's Collegiate Chorale,
The New Haven Chorale actively participates within culturally-rich
New Haven. We frequently perform with the New Haven Symphony
and Orchestra New England and have joined voices with the Elm
City Girls' Choir, Trinity Boys' Choir, the Kodaly Chorus, the
Heritage Chorale, the Yale
Glee Club, the Yale Camerata, and New York's
Hunter College Choir. Outstanding soloists from metropolitan
New York or Yale's outstanding music faculty frequently add
sparkle. We perform most often in Yale's Battelle Chapel or
Woolsey Hall, although we have appeared throughout Southern
Connecticut and internationally. The Chamber Ensemble, open
to all members, performs in more intimate settings.
Under Paul F. Mueller, Music Director since the 1983-84 season,
we are constantly challenged by an expanding repertoire of both
acknowledged masterworks and new compositions and by ongoing
opportunities to improve our vocal quality, ensemble sound,
and performance techniques.
Recent performances have included Bach's St. John's Passion,
Haydn's Lord Nelson Mass, Bernstein's Chicester Psalms,
shape note music from The Sacred Harp, Hailstork's Done Made
My Vow, Brahm's Ein Deutsches Requiem, Mahler's Symphony
No. 8, Vivaldi's Gloria, Still's And They Lynched
Him on a Tree, and Hindemith's When Lilacs Last in the
Dooryard Bloom'd as well as works by Poulenc, Messiaen,
Szymanowski, and Britten.. We regularly perform in the New Haven
Symphony's Holiday Pops concert and are known for our Gilbert
& Sullivan and cabaret renditions.
Community outreach is central to the Chorale's mission. The
Chamber Singers regularly entertain at local retirement centers
and, on Christmas morning, members sing in Yale New Haven Hospital's
pediatric wards. In addition, our Student Singer Program invites
auditioned young musicians to perform and rehearse with us while
underwriting related costs. Since the program's inception in
1990, more than 50 talented high school juniors and seniors
have participated in this program.
We are always seeking new singers, new audience, new support.
For more specific information on any of these, click on the
appropriate link.
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