🔆 The summer programs page lists 25 programs (last change 8/2/24).

Auditions

Auditions are open for Brattleboro Camerata, Brattleboro Concert Choir, Cantemus Chamber Chorus, Cantilena, Connecticut Choral Society, Metropolitan Chorale, Pilgrim Festival Chorus and Spectrum Singers. 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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