Seattle Choral Company – Past Concerts
Founded in 1982 by Artistic Director Freddie Coleman, the Seattle Choral Company has, over the course of 40 years, become one of the region's most accomplished and respected choral organizations. Maestro Coleman's finely-tuned yet spirited interpretations of the masterworks of classical choral music have been acclaimed by critics and audiences, including Berlioz's Te Deum, Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky, Orff's Carmina Burana, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Haydn's Creation, Mozart's C minor Mass, Bach's St. John Passion, and many more. After a recent performance at Benaroya Hall featuring Johannes Brahms' Ein deutsches Requiem, The Gathering Note wrote that the performance "was anchored by deep emotions, a strong sense of purpose, and an excellent advocate in Freddie Coleman and the Seattle Choral Company."
Freddie Coleman has also championed America's finest contemporary choral composers, offering area listeners their first live hearing of such works as Arvo Pärt's Te Deum, Philip Glass' Itaipu, Hawley's Songs of Kabir, Roxanna Panufnik's Westminster Mass, and Morten Lauridsen's Lux Aeterna. In 2001, the SCC commissioned a new choral work, Seattle, by New York composer William Hawley, as part of the city of Seattle’s sesquicentennial celebrations. Additionally, the Company has commissioned and premiered new works from gifted Seattle composers, such as Donald Skirvin and Bern Herbolsheimer. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer recently applauded this commitment, stating "it's not surprising that Coleman…would devote an entire program to contemporary music. He has long been an advocate for living composers."
In the 1980s the Seattle Choral Company toured to Australia and the former Soviet Union. (Their work as cultural ambassadors was recognized with a commendation from the Washington State legislature.) The many albums it has recorded, including The Moon Is Silently Singing, When the Morning Stars Sang Together, Carmina Burana, and Unearthed, have been highly praised and received extensive radio exposure. The Company has recorded soundtracks for Public Television (Death: the Trip of a Lifetime) and NBC (Crime and Punishment and Noah's Ark), and its recordings have been used in at least a dozen Hollywood movie trailers.
The Seattle Choral Company has become a valued collaborator with other performing arts organizations in the region. It has appeared on stage with the Pacific Northwest Ballet many times, including several mountings of Kent Stowell's staging of Orff's Carmina Burana, and Hail to the Conquering Hero, featuring choruses by Handel. In 2010, the SCC appeared with the Seattle Youth Symphony in Mahler's Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection") at Benaroya Hall. The SCC has appeared with the Seattle Symphony on many occasions, including Those Glorious MGM Movie Musicals, Gershwin's Porgy and Bess, Holiday Pops with Doc Severinsen, Holiday Pops with Marvin Hamlisch, New Year's Eve with the Seattle Symphony, and most recently The Matrix Live In Concert. On four occasions, they have appeared at the Paramount Theater in the touring production of Video Games Live, and members of the Company sang in both the Seattle and Portland productions of Star Wars In Concert. The SCC is partnered with the Northwest Sinfonietta, and is an artist-in-residence at Saint Mark's Episcopal Cathedral.
Seattle Choral Company: Eternal Light, featuring Lauridsen's 'Lux Aeterna'
Franz Schubert — Mass No. 2 in G major, D. 167
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Misericordias Domini, K. 222/205a
$27 ($22 senior, $5 student; ages 6-10 free)
Seattle Choral Company: A Baroque Christmas
Francesco Durante — Magnificat a 4 in B-flat major
George Frideric Handel — Nisi Dominus, HWV 238
Chiara Margarita Cozzolani — Salmi a otto voci concertati, Op. 3 ("VIII. Magnificat Primo")
$27 ($22 senior, $5 student; ages 6-10 free)
This Shining Night: Music & Poetry for a Summer Evening
Donald Skirvin — Curve of Gold (setting of poetry by Sara Teasdale; Sarah Mattox, mezzo-soprano)
John Corigliano — Fern Hill (setting of poetry by Dylan Thomas; Sarah Mattox, mezzo-soprano)
Philip Glass — Three Songs for Chorus A Cappella (lyrics by Leonard Cohen, Raymond Lévesque, & Octavio Paz)
Advance: $25 ($20 senior, $5 youth/student; ages 6-10 free) |
At the door: $30 ($24 senior)
The Fruit of Silence: featuring John Rutter's Requiem
Advance: $25 ($20 senior, $5 youth/student)
At the door: $30 ($24 senior)
Seattle Choral Company: Follow the Star – featuring 'The Ballad of the Brown King'
Advance: $25 ($20 senior, $5 youth/student)
At the door: $30 ($24 senior)
Seattle Choral Company: We Need a Little Christmas – Wine Tasting & Gift Auction
Come and support the Seattle Choral Company and join with other SCC friends for an evening of superb wines, relaxed buffet dinner, live ent…
$70
Seattle Choral Company: Rachmaninoff's Divine Liturgy
Sergei Rachmaninoff — Concerto for Choir: O Mother of God, Vigilantly Praying
Alfred Schnittke — Three Sacred Hymns
$25 ($20 senior/veteran, $5 student, ages 6-10 free)
Seattle Choral Company: O Yule Full of Gladness – Christmas In Scandinavia
$25 / $20 / $5 / free
Seattle Choral Company: Cantata Fest
Felix Mendelssohn – "Wer nur den lieben Gott lässt walten"
Tarik O'Regan – "Triptych"
$25 / $20 / $5
Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra: Bernstein, Chihara, Chausson, Copland, & Rachmaninoff
Ernest Chausson – Poème, Op. 25
Leonard Bernstein – “Make our Garden Grow” from Candide
Aaron Copland – “The Promise of Living” from The Tender Land
Sergei Rachmaninoff – Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27
$16-$54
Brass Band Northwest: 'The Armed Man' – a mass for peace
$25 / $20 / $5 (kids age 6-10 free)
Brass Band Northwest: 'The Armed Man' – a mass for peace
$25 / $20 / $5 (kids age 6-10 free)
Seattle Choral Company: December Dreams
$25 / $20 / $5 / Free
Northwest Sinfonietta: French Connections
Maurice Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin
Gabriel Fauré – Requiem in D minor, Op. 48
$20-$40 ($10 under 21)
Northwest Sinfonietta: French Connections
Maurice Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin
Gabriel Fauré – Requiem in D minor, Op. 48
$20-$50
Northwest Sinfonietta: French Connections
Maurice Ravel – Le Tombeau de Couperin
Gabriel Fauré – Requiem in D minor, Op. 48
$25-$45
Baltic Centennial: 100 Years of Statehood
$25 / $20 / $5 (children age 6-10 free)
Seattle Choral Company presents Buon Natale: An Italian Christmas
$25 / $20 / $5 (kids free)
Northwest Sinfonietta: Mozart’s Requiem
Mozart – Requiem in D minor (1792)
$35
Northwest Sinfonietta: Mozart’s Requiem
Mozart – Requiem in D minor (1792)
$20-$50
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