A yearly tradition. Voce Chamber Singers starts the vacation season with a free live performance in the Willard’s beautifully decorated historic foyer. Lately, the Singers have also sung for Les Misérables creators Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil during their UVA residencies, sung for the 2016 UVA Holiday greeting, which obtained greater than 400,000 views on social media, and taken a two-week concert tour of England, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Austria. Produced by Maureen McMullan ’09, this genre-spanning live performance will showcase a strong collective of singers, instrumentalists, arrangers, observe producers, dancers, and visual designers, who will bring to the stage their artistry, tradition, and inventive, fresh arrangements of flagship songs that continue to resonate with individuals world wide. The day has lastly arrived and also you need to celebrate since you made it throughout that stage. While Donald Glover is nicely-recognized for his music beneath the stage name Childish Gambino, he has additionally had a notable acting profession on FX’s hit collection Atlanta. Andy Grammer croons on this 2011 on the spot hit.

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Recent North American tours have taken the group to Atlanta, Boston, Buffalo, Charlotte, Charleston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Montreal, New Orleans, Orlando, New York City, Philadelphia, Providence, Toronto, and the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. The Underground Railroad (sweet chariot) is coming south (swing low) to take the slave to the north or freedom (carry me residence). Auditions: Auditions for the University Singers happen at the start of every semester. The University Singers is the University of Virginia’s flagship choral ensemble, heard by thousands every season in performances of a cappella and accompanied choral repertoire, including main works with orchestra. Recent repertoire has included Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9 with the Charlottesville Symphony, Bach’s Mass in B minor, Handel’s Messiah, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Verdi’s Requiem, and Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem, premieres of works by Stephen Paulus, Forrest Pierce, Judith Shatin, and Eric Whitacre, and a program that includes African-American composers comparable to Nathaniel Dett, Moses Hogan, and H.T Burleigh. In 2017, the group joined the Charlottesville Symphony on the steps of the Rotunda to carry out for UVA’s Bicentennial Launch Celebration, before an estimated crowd of 20,000. In 2018, the University Singers gave the regional premiere of Bernstein’s Mass at the Paramount Theatre, the group’s largest mission to this point.

Historical highlights have included live shows and workshops with Bobby McFerrin, Meredith Monk, and Otto-Werner Mueller, a efficiency for Hillary Clinton, a efficiency for the 2010 VMEA Conference, and frequent collaborations with the Charlottesville Symphony together with for the favored Family Holiday Concerts. Founded in 1972 by music director Jon Lafleur, the Kent Singers began its 50th season with our conventional holiday live shows on December 10 and 11, 2022 at St. Andrew’s Church in Kent, CT. A Holiday Retrospective, was introduced to two full-house audiences on December 10 and 11, 2022 at St. Andrew’s Church in Kent, CT. Holiday live performance a big success! The concert included favorite selections from our repertoire over the years. As well as, the strategy of utilizing studying toys takes much of the strain off mother and father all through these younger years. The 2021-2022 season consists of collaborations with the Oratorio Society of Virginia, and a program celebrating 50 years of ladies at UVA.