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Past Seasons

American Psalmfest — June 8, 2024

2023-2024 Season, Past Seasons

Franz Schubert, Morten Lauridsen, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Freddie Coleman, Seattle Choral Company for Eternal Light concert March 2024 - Collage
Eternal Light — March 16, 2024

2023-2024 Season, Past Seasons

Vivaldi Handel and Durante collage with handwritten sheet music Seattle Choral Company An Italian Baroque Christmas
A Baroque Christmas — December 9, 2023

2023-2024 Season, Past Seasons

This Shining Night: Music and poetry for a summer evening — June 2023

2022-2023 Season, Past Seasons

The Fruit of Silence: featuring John Rutter’s Requiem – March 2023

2022-2023 Season, Past Seasons

Follow the Star: The Ballad of the Brown King – December 2022

2022-2023 Season, Past Seasons

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Rachmaninoff’s Divine Liturgy – April 2, 2022

2021-2022 Season, Past Seasons

How Can I Keep From Singing? – April 2022 Virtual Choir

2021-2022 Season, Past Seasons

A Gift of Holiday Music – December 2021 Virtual Choir

2021-2022 Season, Past Seasons

The Ground & Song We Sing – Spring 2021 Virtual Choir

2020-2021 Season, Past Seasons

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Requiem & Cantate Domino – November 2020 | March 2021

2020-2021 Season, Past Seasons

O Yule Full of Gladness: Christmas in Scandinavia – December 7, 2019

Past Seasons, 2019-2020 Season

Cantata Fest Brochure
Cantata Fest – June 1, 2019

Past Seasons, 2018-2019 Season

The Armed Man – March 16 & 23, 2019

Past Seasons, 2018-2019 Season

December Dreams – December 15, 2018

Past Seasons, 2018-2019 Season

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🔦Repertoire Spotlight🔦 Christmas Cantata: Ch 🔦Repertoire Spotlight🔦 Christmas Cantata: Christus Natus Est by Cecilia McDowall Featured in our 15th Annual Cathedral Christmas, Comfort & Joy: An English Christmas Saturday, December 7th, 2024 Cecilia McDowall is one of the UK’s leading composers of sacred and secular choral music and has won many awards including, in 2014, the British Composer Award in the Choral category. McDowall’s distinctive style fuses fluent melodic lines with occasional dissonant harmonies and rhythmic exuberance. Christus Natus Est consists of five old Latin carols arranged for choir, soprano solo, and chamber orchestra. The carols consists of: 1: Personent hodie, 2: Entre le boeuf, 3: Gaudete, 4: Infant Holy, and 5: Angelus ad virginem. Born in London in 1951 into a musical household — her mother a choral singer and her father the principal flute at the Royal Opera House — McDowall often found herself surrounded by musicians rehearing in her home. Her school, located close to Westminster Abbey, was often called upon to provide young singers, giving her further fine musical opportunities. She has long enjoyed improvising, often disregarding her assigned piano exercises as a child in favor of creating her own music. She attended University of Edinburgh before pursuing a degree in music at Trinity College of Music, studying with Joseph Horovitz, Robert Saxton, and Adam Gorb. She entered and won a number of composition competitions there, despite the fact that her formal studies in composition did not begin until she was in her 40s, when she returned to school to obtain a master’s degree. McDowall names Bach, Britten, Bartok, and Stravinsky, among others, as important influences in her compositions. #seattlechoralcompany #seattle #seattlearts #seattleperformingarts #seattlenonprofit #seattlechoirs #seattlenonprofits #seattlechoir #comfortandjoy #43rdseason #seattlechoralmusic #stmarkscathedralseattle #seattlechristmasmusic #seattleclassicalmusic #ceciliamcdowall
🔦Repertoire Spotlight🔦 Fantasia on Christmas 🔦Repertoire Spotlight🔦 Fantasia on Christmas Carols by Ralph Vaughan Williams Featured in our 15th Annual Cathedral Christmas, Comfort & Joy: An English Christmas Vaughan Williams composed the Fantasia on Christmas Carols in 1912. It was first performed at Hereford Cathedral during the Three Choirs Festival conducted by the composer. The single-movement work of roughly twelve minutes consists of the English folk carols The truth sent from above, Come all you worthy gentlemen and the Sussex Carol (‘On Christmas night all Christians sing’), all folk songs collected in southern England by Vaughan Williams and his friend Cecil Sharp a few years earlier. These are interposed with brief instrumental quotations from other carols, such as The First Nowell. The music is typical of Vaughan Williams’ earlier style relying heavily on a juxtaposition of modal harmony alongside direct quotations from folk songs (or Carols in this instance) he collected himself. The Fantasia opens with an evocative solo bass line, played by cello, which introduces the text of the first section, This is the truth sent from above, sung by the baritone soloist. The wordless choral accompaniment underscores the simplicity of this opening section, which concludes again with the solo bass line. The second section, Come all you worthy gentlemen builds to use the full choral forces to proclaim “tidings of comfort and joy” before subsiding once more at the introduction of the third section. This is a setting of the Sussex Carol (“On Christmas night all Christians sing”), which Vaughan Williams himself had collected. The final section interweaves the choruses of the second and third with instrumental references to a number of other carols and folk melodies. Finally, the tranquility of the opening returns and the voices vanish into the distance. #seattlechoralcompany #seattlenonprofit #seattlearts #seattleperformingarts #seattle #seattlechoirs #seattlenonprofits #comfortandjoy #stmarkscathedralseattle #43rdseason #seattleclassicalmusic #seattlechoralmusic #seattlechristmasmusic #ralphvaughanwilliams
Friends, what a wonderful time we had last night - Friends, what a wonderful time we had last night -- and we couldn't have done it without your support. Perhaps the only thing that would have made it better is an actual horse-drawn Sleigh Ride (but then again, we don't hope that it snows in early November). Thank you for your support, your attendance, your generosity, and your time. And we're especially grateful to @covingtoncellars, who were such wonderful hosts for our big night. #seattlechoralcompany #seattle #seattlearts #seattlenonprofit #sleighride
Join us for a Sleigh Ride this Saturday and unwind Join us for a Sleigh Ride this Saturday and unwind and shake off stress from the week. Enjoy dinner from @cafe_veloce while @covingtoncellars pours you a glass of wine and our choral musicians provide delights for your ears. And bidding on a little treat for yourself from the silent auction can't hurt, right? We look forward to spending the evening with you. #sleighride #seattlechoralcompany #seattlechoirs #seattlenonprofit #seattlearts #seattleperformingarts #covingtoncellars
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