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The Hershey Community Chorus
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Concert Schedule
| Concerts are held at the Hershey Theatre unless otherwise noted. |
| The Hershey Theatre is located at 15 East Caracas Avenue in Hershey |
The Hershey Community
Chorus
Announces Its 2011 - 2012 Season
The Hershey Community Chorus announces its 2011 - 2012 Choral Concert Season,
including its Christmas and its Spring Concerts.
The Christmas Concerts, entitled "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.
The Spring Concerts, "Love and Romance in Three" will also be held
twice, the first being on Friday evening, April 27, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. in The
Scottish Rite Cathedral in Harrisburg, and repeated on Sunday, April 29, 2012 at
3:00 p.m. in The Hershey Theatre.
The spring concerts' repertoire is in 3 and based on themes of love. The Chorus will perform "Liebeslieder
Walzer" (Love song Waltzes) of Johannes Brahms. These are 18 love songs, all in a
meter of 3, accompanied by four-handed piano.
This will be followed by an orchestral rendition of "Lieslieder
Waltz" by Johann Strauss.
The program will end with the Chorus with orchestral accompaniment performing
excerpts from "A Little Night Music" by Steven Sondheim.
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