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Consort Chorale
Summer Project 2011 - Opus 18

Sunday, August 14, 2011
7 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church
72 Kensington Rd
San Anselmo, California

Director - Allan Robert Petker
Associate Directors - Martha Wall
David Irvine, Sally Johnson, Ruthe Wells

Accompanist - Jim Berry

 
     
 


Opus 18 Program Summary

The centerpiece for this summer's concert will be Haydn's Missa Solenmis in B Flat "Harmoniemesse," one of the undisputed "Six Great Masses" that crowned Haydn's list of achievements. The program will open with the two final choruses from Randall Thompson's The Peaceable Kingdom. Also new of the roster will be Eric Whitacre's A Boy and A Girl, Jack Halloran's recently rediscovred arrangement of The Gospel Train, and Kevin Memley's brand new Stabat Mater. From our archives, we will include Whitacre's Lux Aurumque, Johathan Adam's I Believe in the Sun, Mosis Hogan's Hear My Prayer and Stacey Gibbs' Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel.

Opus 18 program features:

  • Randall Thompson - Have Ye Not Known/Ye Shall Have a Song
  • Kevin A. Memley - Stabat Mater
  • Eric Whitacre - A Boy and A Girl
  • Jack Halloran - Gospel Train
  • Jonathan Adams - I Believe In the Sun
  • Eric Whitacre - Lux Aurumque
  • Franz Joseph Haydn - Harmoniemesse, Missa Solemnis in B Flat
  • Stacey V. Gibbs - Didn't My Lord Deliver Daniel

ALLAN ROBERT PETKER, founder-director of Consort Chorale and a nationally acclaimed choral clinician and prolific composer, returns to lead his auditioned Bay Area singers in their eighteenth annual summer concert.

CONCERT TICKETS: $18.00 at the door ($10 students)

CONTACT: PO Box 265, Kentfield CA, 94914-0265; (415)456-1942
Bob Friestad - dean@consortchorale.org

INFORMATION: Directions to our concert location, First Presbyterian Church of San Anselmo. HERE

 


Opus 19
registration
March 2012

 

Consort Chorale Recordings

 


Opus 17: Concert 2010

A newly discovered Vivaldi work, Dixit Dominus RV807, for soli, chorus, and instrumental ensemble is featured on this CD in what we believe is a West Coast Premiere Performance of this work. Spirituals and contemporary choral works by Brunner, Burchard, Forbes, Gibbs, Hogan, Memley, Morris, Petker, Powell, Stanford, and Tate are also included in this recorded concert.

Opus 13: Concert 2006

"Sing me a love song, sing me to heaven" was the program theme in our outstanding 2006 concert and recording presenting works by Adams, Gawthrop, Halloran, Mozart's Missa Brevis in F, KV 192, Petker, Quintana, Rautavaara and Whitacre.

 

Opus 12: Concert 2005

This splendid CD recording of our excellent 2005 concert is still available with selections ranging from Victoria to spirituals, three settings of "O Magnum Mysterium," and Mozart's Missa Solemnis in C, KV 337.

 

Opus 11: Concert 2004

This spectacular recording of our 2004 concert showcases both pipe organs at First Presbyterian Church (San Anselmo, CA) in a performance of  Vierne's Messe Solennelle for 2 Organs & Chorus. Handel's Utrecht Jubilate with orchestra is also featured as well as works by Brahms, Hindemuth, Saint-Saens and others.

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Cost of CD's is $15 each ($17.75 if mailed). This is a fund raiser for Consort Chorale after the direct costs and royalties are paid.

Orders can be made anytime by email to: dean@consortchorale.org or by phone message at 415-568-0550.

Please make checks payable to “Consort Chorale" or pay by cash when you pick it up.

Consort CD cover 2010
Consort Chorale CD opus 13

Consort Chorale CD opus 12

Consort Chorale CD opus 11

     
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