CHORUS NEWS
Please join the Community Chorus of Detroit
to sing the Verdi Requiem this spring!
The CCD is an 80-member non-auditioned chorus committed to excellence in all its work, and all interested singers are warmly welcomed. While many of our choristers are experienced singers and some have voice degrees, others come to us with high school-, college-, or church-choir backgrounds. We would love to welcome you, whatever your choral-music background!
On May 18, 2014, we will be joined by three outstanding professional choirs for a tour-de-force performance of Verdi’s great Requiem at one of Detroit’s most spectacular historic settings, the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament on Woodward. There will be 175 singers, a full symphony orchestra, and soloists from the Metropolitan Opera, including mezzo soprano Irina Mishura and bass Stephen West, with soprano Jennifer Barnickel Fitch and tenor Dustin Scott, and with the renowned Dr. Edward Maki-Schramm conducting. The concert will commemorate the 16 performances of the Requiem by the prisoners of the Terezin concentration camp in WWII, with a brief introduction providing historical background, and moving symbolic elements.
All singers who would like to perform the Requiem, other than those in our professional partner choirs, need to register and join the Community Chorus of Detroit for the spring season. Sunday afternoon rehearsals begin on Sunday, February 9. Please refer to Membership/Chorus Handbook for complete information including our rehearsal schedule, and go to Membership/Register to register to sing with us. REGISTER
Concert tickets will go on sale in mid-April.
Questions: info@communitychorusofdetroit.com
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Please stand by for information about our fall, 2015 European tour in France, where we will sing at the Cathedrals of Notre Dame in both Paris and Chartres, among many extraordinary venues.
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All of us in the Community Chorus of Detroit thank you – our supporters – for all you do to help us to continue “Singing in the heart of Detroit!”