Mad River Chorale
Serving our Community Through Song
The Mad River Chorale (MRC) has been inspiring singers and audiences for over 30 years. We are a welcoming non-auditioned community chorus that performs concerts twice a year, in December and in the Spring. The MRC’s goal is to provide members an opportunity to sing a rewarding and challenging repertoire and to give our audience the experience of, and knowledge about, wonderful choral music.
“Hope Lights the Way”
Our December Holiday Concerts Dec 12th and 14th
Our concerts on Friday, Dec 12th 7:30pm at Waitsfield UCC, and Sunday, Dec 14th at 7:30pm at Waterbury Congregational Church were very well received.
If you would like to view a professionally made video of our Sunday, Dec 14th concert, click on the program to the left and a link to the video by Tim Joy on Vimeo will open.
The pieces performed at the two concerts were as follows:
• Our major piece was the “Messe de minuit pour Noël” by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704), a dominant composer of the French Baroque period. His Midnight Mass for Christmas is based on ten French Christmas carols included vocal soloists accompanied by a string quintet and two flutes.
• “O Magnum Mysterium” by Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) a motet for Christmas Day by a famous Spanish composer of the late Renaissance
• Morten Lauridsen’s setting of the Marian antiphon “Ave Maria”
•“Hodie Christus natus es” (Latin for “Today Christ is Born”) arranged by Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621), a Dutch organist and composer of the early Baroque period
•Ola Gjeilo’s “Across the Vast, Eternal Sky”, a soaring piece that sets these words to music: “Sunlight shines on my face; This is my grace, to be restored, born again in flame!“
Thank you to all who attended our concerts. We had wonderful and engaged audiences at both concerts. We will let you know of our plans for our Spring semester soon.
The Mad River Chorale is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. Your donation helps the MRC to include instrumentalists – strings, harp, brass, winds, percussion – and soloists to accompany the chorale, enriching the experience for everyone. Thank you for your support! The button below takes you to our Square site for secure transactions. If you would prefer, you can send a check to the MRC at PO Box 158, Waitsfield, VT 05602.