The Chorale Celebrates its’ 51st Season and its 40th under the marvelous artistic direction of Conductor Donald P. Jenkins!

ODE TO JOY

Saturday, September 29, 8:00 P.M. & Sunday, September 30, 2007, 2:30 P.M. at the Pikes Peak Center for the Performing Arts.

The Chorale opens the Colorado Springs Philharmonic’s season with Beethoven’s, Symphony No. Nine, and Brahms’ Schicksalslied, “Song of Destiny.” Tickets: Pikes Peak Center Box Office; TicketsWest, 719 520 7469; online at ticketswest.com.

DECK THE HALL

a family pops tradition: Friday, December 7, 2006 7:30 PM at the Pikes Peak Center for the Performing Arts

The Chorale presents the 21st annual performance of “The Best Way to Celebrate Christmas” (Best of the Springs, The Gazette). Special Guests, the Chorale’s own “MOSAIC,” and a Christmas carol composed especially to celebrate Donald P. Jenkins 40th Anniversary as Chorale Conductor and Artistic Director by Alice Parker, renowned in her own right as composer, teacher, and conductor, and a close associate of the choral great, Robert Shaw.

Tickets: Pikes Peak Center Box Office; TicketsWest 719 520 7469; online at ticketswest.com.

Cripple Creek Performance:

A special benefit performance for the Aspen Mine Center Social Services Agency, Cripple Creek: Saturday, December 8, 2007, 3:00 P.M., at First Baptist Church, 137 N. First St. (First and Carr), Cripple Creek. Donation at the Door.

CHRISTMAS CLASSICS AND CAROLS

:Saturday, December 22, 8:00 P.M. & Sunday, December 23, 2007, 2:30 P.M. at the Pikes Peak Center for the Performing Arts

The Chorale joins the Colorado Springs Philharmonic for its, “Home for the Holidays” series production, featuring Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus, a family sing-a-long of carols and other holiday favorites.

Tickets: Pikes Peak Center Box Office; TicketsWest 719 520 7469; online at ticketswest.com.

CHEFS’ GALA AND SILENT AUCTION

Sunday, February 24, 2008, 5:00 PM at the Broadmoor’s Rocky Mountain Ballroom.

The 23rd Chefs’ Gala feast and culinary competition. Taste cuisine as prepared by two dozen of the region’s finest chefs. “Best Charity Benefit”, (Best of the Springs, The Gazette).”Best Food-Music Hybrid”, The Independent.

Tickets and information: Colorado Springs Chorale Office, 719 634 3737; or email csc@cschorale,org.

MUSIC’S FIRE

Great Works VI

Saturday, April 19, 2008, 8:00 PM at the Pikes Peak Center for the Performing Arts.

The 6th in our “Great Works” Series, Music’s Fire, continues our commitment to perform the great choral masterworks. Music’s Fire explores music’s ability to entice, comfort, celebrate and judge. “Solomon’s Invocation to Music” an excerpt from the full oratorio, Solomon, by Handel, depicts a court entertainment designed by the King to entice the visiting Queen of Sheba. The oratorio conveys music’s passionate ability to arouse emotions in its listeners through irresistible, lavish and contrasting madrigals ranging from love’s tragic disappointment, to war, to erotic suggestion. “Denn Alles Fleish” from Brahms’ enduring Ein Deutches Requiem offers profound and radiant comfort with its gigantic fugue and serene closing coda. In “The Testament of Freedom”, by Randall Thompson, we celebrate some of man’s highest aspirations and achievements through the writings of Thomas Jefferson. The vivid overpowering, immediate, and inescapable score of “Belchezzar’s Feast,” by William Walton, alternates between a piercing beauty and raw emotive power. It narrates the mindless excesses and cruelties of King Belchazzar’s son Nebuchadnezzar, “weighed in the balance, found wanting,”

ACADEMY BAND SPECTACULAR

Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 7:30 PM at the Pikes Peak Center for the Performing Arts.
The Chorale joins the full United States Air Force Academy Concert Band in a performance of “pops” and patriotic music as a highlight of the annual Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce salute to the military.

Tickets: Performance is free but tickets are required. Pikes Peak Center Box Office or TicketsWest, 719 520 7469 for further information.

Deck the Hall and Music’s Fire Ticket Information.

Prices:
Balcony $16
Orchestra A-D 19
Loge 25
Balcony Box 29
Orchestra E-V 29
Mezzanine 42
Mezzanine Box 48

Prices include a $2.00 per ticket facility surcharge.