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.

**Saint-Saëns “Christmas Oratorio” with additional works by Buxtehude, Rutter, Paulus, and Prentice**

Our Holiday Concerts on Sat, Dec 19th and Sun, Dec 20th

Our director, Mary Jane Austin, has designed our concert program around Camille Saint-Saëns’s beautiful Oratorio de Noël Op 12 for five solo voices, chorus, harp, organ, and string quintet.

Taking advantage of the harp, Mary Jane plans to incorporate several Christmas songs by Stephen Paulus as well as Fred Prentice’s arrangement of Sing We Now of Christmas, all of which are accompanied by harp.

There will be additional pieces that highlight strings, including Buxtehude’s Christmas Cantata, In dulci jubilo as well as Rutter’s What sweeter music. And of course, we will invite the audience to join us in singing several Christmas carols and the Hallelujah Chorus.

Our 2026 December Holiday concerts are scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 19th at 7:30pm at the Waitsfield UCC Village Meeting House and Sunday, Dec 20th at 3pm at the Waterbury Congregational Church.

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.

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