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The Hershey Community Chorus
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The mission of the Hershey Community Chorus is to promote
fellowship
and choral education among its members and provide
our audience
with a memorable experience.
The HCC has been an integral part of the Hershey Community for 75 years. Hershey Theatre has been its primary performing home since 1967. The Chorus continues to provide music to the Hershey community as well as providing the opportunity for people to come together and be part of a non audition music group. Our membership includes individuals from the immediate Hershey area as well as Harrisburg, Lebanon, Mechanicsburg, Etters and Elizabethtown. The Chorus is one of the largest of these known groups in the Central Pennsylvania Region.
The Chorus is a non-profit organization and relies upon membership fees, ticket sales, contributions from the community, member fundraising and volunteers to cover the cost of each concert. These costs include such things as rehearsal facility rental, Hershey Theatre rental, stagehand fees, sound equipment rental, piano and organ tuning, program printing, advertising, sheet music, guest performers, producer and director fees, liability insurance and various taxes.
In addition to its scheduled concerts, the Chorus will perform upon invitation at outside events. Past events include:
The Candle-lighting Ceremony at Hersheypark’s Christmas Candylane
The Hershey Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony
The Fall Hershey Garden Fest
The Spring Harrisburg Artfest
M.S. Hershey Birthday Stamp Celebration
Caroling at The Hershey Playhouse
Caroling at Christkindlmart at The Hershey Story
Patriotic concert at The Hershey Story
A Pennsylvania Christmas 2011 - Sunday December 4 and Sunday December 11, 2011
The Hershey Community Chorus' Christmas Concert, "A Pennsylvania Christmas 2011"
will be performed twice. On Sunday, December 4, 2011, at 3:00 p.m. the concert
will be held at The Hershey Theatre located at 15 East Caracas Avenue, Hershey,
PA, and repeated on Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. at The Scottish
Rite Cathedral, located at 2701 North 3rd Street Harrisburg, PA.
The program for "A Pennsylvania Christmas 2011" will consist of music
by Pennsylvania composers and arrangers Dr. Robert Lau of Camp Hill,
Virgil Hostetler of Hummelstown, and Carl Nygard of Fleetwood.
The Chorus is also showcasing two different local children's singing
groups, The New Horizon Singers of The Milton Hershey School for the
Hershey performance and the COC singers from Grantville at the Harrisburg
performance. In addition husband and wife performers James Longacre and
Dorothy Cardella, both voice instructors at the Milton Hershey School and
residents of Philadelphia, will be joining the Chorus for both concerts.
James and Dorothy will be featured soloist in Spirituals by Pennsylvania Arranger,
Jester Hairston as well as performing some of their own repertoire.
Tickets are now available by contacting any Chorus Member or Chorus President,
Lee Boltz, at (717) 439-6482, (717) 232-7262, or email at
info@HersheyCommunityChorus.org.
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