Auditions

Auditions are open for Assabet Valley Mastersingers. See the auditions page for more information.

June 1, 2024 (Saturday)

7:30 PM. Manchester Symphony Orchestra and Chorale [CT]: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Pops. PDQ Bach: 1712 Overture; Felix Mendelssohn: A Midsummernight’s Dream Suite; Emma Lou Diemer: Three Madrigals; Gioachino Rossini: Duetto buffo dedi due gatti; The Barber of Seville Overture; Peter Schickele: "My Bonnie Lass She Smelleth"; Adriano Banchieri: Contraponto Bestiale; Eric Whitacre: Animal Crackers (Volumes 1 and 2); Pierre Passereau: Il est bel et bon. For more information, call 860-559-2967 or email info@msoc.org. Bailey Auditorium, Manchester High School, 134 Middle Turnpike E, Manchester CT 06040 ⓘ 🔗

April 6, 2024 (Saturday)

7:30 PM. Manchester Symphony Orchestra and Chorale [CT]: Hope Shines. Gabriel Fauré: Requiem; Edward Elgar: Elegie; Elaine Hagenberg: Through Love to Light; Carlos Simon: Sanctus; Jacib Narverud: Let the Music Fill Your Soul; Joaquín Turina: Danzas Fantasticas. For more information, call 860-559-2967 or email info@msoc.org. Bailey Auditorium, Manchester High School, 134 Middle Turnpike E, Manchester CT 06040 ⓘ 🔗

December 16, 2023 (Saturday)

7:30 PM. Manchester Symphony Orchestra and Chorale [CT]: Christmas Through the Ages. Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols; Felix Mendelssohn: Part I from Christus, Op. 98 (1847); “Ester Teil” Geburt Christi; Hans Leo Hassler: Dixit Maria; Nathaniel Dett: Ave Maria; Sergei Rachmaninoff: Bogoroditse Dyevo from Vespers, op.3; with carols and seasonal songs. For more information, call 860-559-2967 or email info@msoc.org. St. Bartholomew’s Church, 736 Middle Turnpike East, Manchester CT 06040 ⓘ 🔗

November 3, 2023 (Friday)

7:30 PM. Manchester Symphony Orchestra and Chorale [CT]: Music Brings Us Together. Elaine Hagenberg: Illuminare; W.A. Mozart: Magic Flute Overture; Paul Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis; Jean Sibelius: Finlandia. A collaboration with MCC Choir, Manchester, and Middletown High School Choirs. For more information, call 860-559-2967 or email info@msoc.org. Bailey Auditorium, Manchester High School, 134 Middle Turnpike E, Manchester CT 06040 ⓘ 🔗

June 11, 2023 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Manchester Symphony Orchestra & Chorale [CT]: Pops Concert – Jazz Favorites. Bob Chilcott: Nidaros Jazz Mass; Ira and George Gershwin, arr. Tenna Chinn.: Embraceable You; arr. Jay Althouse: Jazz Trio by Cole Porter; arr. Kirby Shaw: And All That Jazz; MacHuff: A Gershwin Portrait, Lennon/McCartney: I Will; Joseph Kosma: Autumn Leaves.; Duke Ellington: It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing; Billy Strayhorn: Take The “A” Train; Ellington Medley; Marty Gold: “Tico Tico”; George Gershwin: An American in Paris. For more information, call 860-559-2967 or email info@msoc.org. Manchester High School, 134 Middle Turnpike E, Manchester CT 06040 ⓘ 🔗

April 1, 2023 (Saturday)

7:30 PM. Manchester Symphony Orchestra & Chorale [CT]: Chorale/Orchestra – Concert 4. Robert Nathaniel Dett: “The Chariot Jubilee”; Marianna von Martines: “Dixit Dominus” from concerto #2; José Mauricio Nuñez García: “Requiem”. Nadia Aguilar, soprano; Rebecca deAlmeida, mezzo-soprano; Igor Ferreira, tenor; Jermaine Woodard, Jr., baritone; Luke Scott, bass. For more information, call 860-559-2967 or email info@msoc.org. Manchester High School, 134 Middle Turnpike E, Manchester CT 06040 ⓘ 🔗

December 3, 2022 (Saturday)

7:30 PM. Manchester Symphony Orchestra & Chorale [CT]: “Music She Wrote”: A Musical Journey: Women Composers Through Time. Hildegard von Bingen: “O Virtus Sapientiae”; Maddalena Casulana Madrigal: “Morir non puó il mio cuore”; Caterina Assandra: “Ave Verum Corpus”; Isabella Leonarda: “Ave Regina Caelorum”; Maria Xaveria Perucona: “Cessate Tympana”; Marianna von Martines: “Dixit Dominus – Psalm 110” (first movement); Fanny Mendelssohn: Im Herbste, Op. 3, no. 3; Clara Schumann: Abendfeier in Venedig; Amy Beach: “Peace I Leave With You”; Florence Beatrice Price: “Praise the Lord”; Margaret Bonds: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”; Gwyneth Walker: “Crossing the Bar”; Eva Ugalde Alvarez Begi Urdin, arr. Poelinitz: “City Called Heaven”; “Yemaya,” Afro-Cuban chant, arr. by Diana V. Sáez; Elaine Hagenberg: “O Love”; Samih Choukeir: “Lao Rahal Soti” arr. Shireen Abu Khader; Rosephanye Powell: “Non Nobis, Domine”; Abbie Betinis: “Love is Love is Love is Love” (audience participation). For more information, call 860-559-2967 or email info@msoc.org. Manchester High School, 134 Middle Turnpike E, Manchester CT 06040 ⓘ 🔗

April 3, 2022 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Manchester Symphony Orchestra & Chorale [CT]: An Evening in Vienna. W.A. Mozart: Regina Coeli, K.V.276; Offertorium pro omni tempore; Johannes Brahms: Schicksalslied (“Song of Fate”); F.J. Haydn: Te Deum, Hob. XXIIIc; Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8 “Unfinished”. For more information, call 860-559-2967 or email info@msoc.org. Bailey Auditorium, Manchester High School, 134 Middle Turnpike E, Manchester CT 06040 ⓘ 🔗

November 23, 2019 (Saturday)

7:30 PM. Manchester Symphony Orchestra & Chorale [CT]: Canciones de la Tierra (Songs of the Earth). Ramirez: Misa Criolla; Walker: I Will Be Earth; Ticheli: Earth Song; Busto: Esta Tierra; Elder: Ballade to the Moon; McKennitt: Tango to Evora; Anon: Cancion de Todos; Farrow: Turn the World Around; Morales-Matos: El Cumbanchero. With the Alturas Duo. For more information, call 860-559-2967 or email info@msoc.org. TBD, Manchester CT 06040 ⓘ 🔗

June 8, 2019 (Saturday)

7:30 PM. Manchester Symphony Orchestra & Chorale [CT]: Pops: Beatles, Broadway and Beyond. For more information, call 860-559-2967 or email info@msoc.org. Bailey Auditorium, Manchester High School, 134 Middle Turnpike E, Manchester CT 06040 ⓘ 🔗

April 28, 2019 (Sunday)

4:00 PM. Manchester Symphony Orchestra & Chorale [CT]: Mozart Requiem. W.A. Mozart: Ave Verum; Requiem; Ludwig van Beethoven: Egmont Overture. With the Master Singers of Worcester. For more information, call 860-559-2967 or email info@msoc.org. Bailey Auditorium, Manchester High School, 134 Middle Turnpike E, Manchester CT 06040 ⓘ 🔗

April 27, 2019 (Saturday)

7:00 PM. Manchester Symphony Orchestra & Chorale [MA]: Mozart Requiem. W.A. Mozart: Ave Verum; Requiem; Ludwig van Beethoven: Egmont Overture. With the Master Singers of Worcester. For more information, call 860-559-2967 or email info@msoc.org. Trinity Lutheran Church, 73 Lancaster Street, Worcester MA 01609 ⓘ 🔗

December 1, 2018 (Saturday)

7:30 PM. Manchester Symphony Orchestra & Chorale [CT]: Gloria! Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria; Francis Guentner: Villancico infantil; Louis Lewandowski: Hal’luyah; Felix Mendelssohn: There Shall a Star Come Out of Jacob; Anna Laura Page: Creation Will be at Peace; Michael Praetorius: Psallite; Sergei Rachmaninoff: Bogoroditse Dyevo; Camille Saint-Saëns: Tollite hostias from Oratorio de Noel; Larry Shackley: What a Wonderful Child; Audrey Snyder: Three Spanish Carols; Traditional: Dadme Albricia Hijos d’Eva; Arthur Warrell: A Merry Christmas. For more information, call 860-559-2967 or email info@msoc.org. Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 60 Church St, Manchester CT 06040 ⓘ 🔗

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