Start of the Second Decade with the
New Choir
2012-2013 Performances
Here is some brief information about the next season's concert schedule.
Please book your calendar with the New Choir's concert dates!
New Choir Spring Concert
Spirit Lifted!
Performance will include:
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Benjamin Britten's Festival Te Deum in E and Rejoice in the Lamb
- Henry Purcell's Rejoice in the Lord, Alway
- Paul Shin's Premier composition Cry from the North
:: June 8, Saturday, 8 PM
All Saints Episcopal Church
555 Waverley Street, Palo Alto
:: June 9, Sunday, 7 PM
All Saints Episcopal Church
555 Waverley Street, Palo Alto
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Benefit Concert
for the AMASE (Academy of Music and Arts for Special Education)
:: Sunday, March 24, 2013 - 7 PM
All Saints Episcopal Church
555 Waverley Street, Palo Alto
New Choir Spring Concert
Rejoice!
:: June 8, Saturday, 8 PM
All Saints Episcopal Church
555 Waverley Street, Palo Alto
:: June 9, Sunday, 7 PM
All Saints Episcopal Church
555 Waverley Street, Palo Alto
Christmas with the New Choir
Lessons and Carols
December 22 (Sat), 8 PM
December 23 (Sun), 7 PM
All Saints Episcopal Church in Palo Alto
New Choir presents the Spring concert of the 2011-2012 season.
Join us as we celebrate the roots of our music and heritage.
Roots
Performance will include:
- the Four Motets by Durufle
- Da Pacem Domine by Paert
- Renaissance motets
- Korean folk song arrangements
and two pieces written for the New Choir
by the award winning composer, Paul Shin
- Ave Verum Corpus
- O-Gahm-Do
:: Saturday, June 2, 2012 - 8 PM
:: Sunday, June 3, 2012 - 7 PM
All Saints Episcopal Church
555 Waverley Street, Palo Alto
Celebrate the Twelfth Christmas with the New Choir
The New Choir invites you to a night of songs about
Glorious Christmas. We will perform the Gloria by Palestrina (from
Missa Papae Marcelli) and a delightfully colorful Gloria by Francis Poulenc. Other selections include: O magnum mysterium by Lauridsen, Ave Maria by Bruckner, Bogoroditse Djevo by Part and many of your favorite carols!
Join us for a glorious evening of magnificence, joy and delight.
:: Saturday, December 10, 2011
- 8 PM
Mission San Jose
43300 Mission Blvd. Fremont
:: Saturday, December 17, 2011 - 8 PM
:: Sunday, December 18, 2011 - 7 PM
All Saints Episcopal Church
555 Waverley Street, Palo Alto
Joy and Grief
Jesu, meine Freude by J.S. Bach
The New Choir's presentation of the annual Spring Concert with songs of Joy, Hope and Grief. The performance will included motets by J.S. Bach, Thomas Morley, Henry Purcell, and Josef Rheinberger.
Performance also included a few pieces that the choir had performed with Rosa Jung-Eun Park,
a dear friend and a wonderful soprano, who passed away during the Fall of 2010.
Rosa was remembered in the performance of these songs.
Bella Voce
A night of Arias and Old favorites!
The Bella Voce and the soloists from the New Choir performed arias, art songs, and selections from well known musicals. Performance included selections from the West Side Story (Bernstein), Rigoletto (Verdi), Il Barbierre di Silviglia (Rossini) and many others. A treat for your ears from the New Choir.
Eleventh Christmas with the New Choir (Dec 18, Pleasanton -- Dec 19, Palo Alto)
Simply Magnficat by:
- Thomas Tallis
- Antonio Vivaldi
- Felix Mendelssohn
- Michael Haydn
- Charles V. Stanford
And Anthems and Motets about the Faithful Mother and the Glorious Son
by Howell, Franck, Poston and F. Heath.
The New Choir celebrated its tenth season
with a multi-city performance tour in South Korea. This tour was sponsored by
various civic and arts organizations in Korea including:
The choir held performances throughout South Korea from Seoul
to Jeju Island in 8 cities. We literally criss-crossed the entire country multipe times during
the 10 days but it was well worth it as we performed
at wonderful venues
and with great choirs. It was a great experience meeting the choral music lovers
of Korea. Click here for the specific venues and the performance schedule.
Farewell Concert for the
New Choir Korea Tour (May 23 7 pm, Palo Alto, CA)
The New Choir proudly presents the Farewell Concert. We invite you to share the joy
of the wonderful music from our last 10 years. We're extremely excited to highlight our
10th year with a multi-city tour in South Korea in June. As a kick-off for the tour,
we will have a concert on May 23 to present a large selection of pieces from the Korea Tour
repertoire. Please come and join us in celebrating our tenth season and the kick-off of the
Korea Tour.
The choir's performance will include:
- Cantate Domino [Monteverdi]
- Canite Tuba [Guerrero]
- Angelus Domini [Rheinberger]
- The Blue Bird [Stanford]
- Gahng Gahng Sool Lae [Nack-Kum Paik]
- Spirituals
- Folk Songs
Guest Performance with the
Santa Cruz Chorale (March 20, 8 pm, Santa Cruz, CA)
The Santa Cruz Chorale, a non-profit organization founded in 1983,
performs a wide-ranging repertory that includes works from the 16th century through music of our time.
The New Choir was invited, for the second time, to perform at the beautiful Holy Cross Church as the guest of the Santa Cruz Chorale.
The performance included:
- Psalm 100 for double choir by Heinrich Shutz (with Santa Cruz Chorale under direction of Christian Grube)
- Hebrew Love Songs by Eric Whitacre
- Gahng Gahng Sool Lae by Nack-Kum Paik
- And works by: Monteverdi, Des Prez, Guerrero, Sweelinck, Delius, Stanford, Grieg, Rhienberger and Brahms
The Santa Cruz Chorale joined in the performance with the New Choir for the Psalm 100
under the direction of Christian Grube, the Conductor and Artistic Director of the Santa Cruz Chorale. The audience greatly enjoyed
this unique opportunity to see the two choirs perform together.
New Choir closes its Ninth season
with the Summer of Love!
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We began our Ninth season with the performance
of the great Christmas oratorio Messiah by George Frederic Handel. It was fun to perform at the
Le'Petit Trianon Theatre again. It was a great concert and the audience enjoyed the performance
and joined the choir for the singing of the Hallelujah chorus.
And before we knew it, it was already time to wrap up our ninth season. Our final performance took place in June with
a program that consisted of love songs spanning 600 years. This was probably the most diverse program we've
ever had. As always, there were some old music (Renaissance love songs, Bach's Wedding Cantata, Brahm's Liebeslieder Waltzes)
and some new music (Eric Whitacre's Hebrew Love Songs, compositions by top young Korean choral composers).
The Pleasanton performance included
performances by
the Cantabella Children's Choir. The Cantabella choir participated
in the Golden Gate International Choral Festival
in July, 2009 under the direction of our music director, Eileen Chang. We're extremely pleased to note that the Cantabella
Children's Choir placed first in the Historical category and placed second in the
Folk category. Director Chang was also honored with a special recognition by the
distinguished panel of international judges who presided over the competition.
Eighth was our busiest season ever
We brought the season to a close
with our concert in June. This concert was really exciting for us because we did
something completely new, literally! We commissioned five new works from
three composers specifically for this performance. Five of these works were premiering
during the first half of the program and the second half of the program featured
Haydn's Organ Mass and Renaissance motets by Hassler, Handl and Gibbons.
It was a wonderful program of old and new music and the June concerts were great success!
We wrapped up our 7th season with
a double-choir treat.
The Choral Alchemy of Los Angeles (CALA) and the New Choir joined together
under the direction of Eileen Chang for a
concert to the heavenly land. The performances were in Anaheim and San Jose.
The program included Stanford's motet for double choir, Coelos Ascendit Hodie, Bach's double motet, Komm,
Jesu, Komm,
and three settings of Kyrie by Dufay, Palestrina and Beethoven.
We also had the great pleasure of introducing another new composition by Ms.
Nak-Keum Baik, the Jacob's Ladder.
The 7th annual Christmas with the
New Choir took you on a journey around the world.
We brought to you an
evening of Christmas
music with works old and new from all around the world. The program included works
by Stanford, Lauridsen, Poulenc, Victoria, Mozart, Mechem and others and the performance
set a new record for us for the number of different languages performed in a single
concert. We sang in Latin, French, Burgundian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and, of
course, Korean and English.
Our thanks to the faithful New Choir audience who again chose to make this concert
a part of their Christmas tradition and celebrated Christmas with us!
Our sixth season
proved to be a very busy and exciting one. Here are some
highlights from the past season:
- New Choir
2006 Spring Concert: Conversations with God
more info...
- New Choir
enjoys great reception at the 2006 ACDA Western Division Convention
more info...
- The 6th
Christmas with the New Choir
more info...
- New Choir
selected once again as recipient of grant from the Arts Council Silicon
Valley, Community Arts Fund
more info...
As
always, we are grateful to you, our supporters, for your
continued interest and financial support. Without your support,
we would not be able to bring you such great news. Thank you once again.
For more
information about the New Choir,
call: 408.206.1709 / 408.472.3833
email: info@newchoir.org
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