A yearly tradition. Voce Chamber Singers starts the holiday season with a free live performance within the Willard’s beautifully decorated historic foyer. Lately, the Singers have also sung for Les Misérables creators Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil throughout their UVA residencies, sung for the 2016 UVA Holiday greeting, which obtained more than 400,000 views on social media, and taken a two-week concert tour of England, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Austria. Produced by Maureen McMullan ’09, this style-spanning live performance will showcase a powerful collective of singers, instrumentalists, arrangers, track producers, dancers, and visual designers, who will deliver to the stage their artistry, tradition, and inventive, fresh preparations of flagship songs that proceed to resonate with individuals around the globe. The day has finally arrived and also you should rejoice since you made it across that stage. While Donald Glover is well-identified for his music below the stage identify Childish Gambino, he has additionally had a notable acting profession on FX’s hit collection Atlanta. Andy Grammer croons on this 2011 on the spot hit.

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Recent North American tours have taken the group to Atlanta, Boston, Buffalo, Charlotte, Charleston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Montreal, New Orleans, Orlando, New York City, Philadelphia, Providence, Toronto, and the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. The Underground Railroad (candy chariot) is coming south (swing low) to take the slave to the north or freedom (carry me house). Auditions: Auditions for the University Singers happen at the start of every semester. The University Singers is the University of Virginia’s flagship choral ensemble, heard by thousands each season in performances of a cappella and accompanied choral repertoire, together with major works with orchestra. Recent repertoire has included Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9 with the Charlottesville Symphony, Bach’s Mass in B minor, Handel’s Messiah, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Verdi’s Requiem, and Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem, premieres of works by Stephen Paulus, Forrest Pierce, Judith Shatin, and Eric Whitacre, and a program that includes African-American composers similar to Nathaniel Dett, Moses Hogan, and H.T Burleigh. In 2017, the group joined the Charlottesville Symphony on the steps of the Rotunda to perform for UVA’s Bicentennial Launch Celebration, earlier than an estimated crowd of 20,000. In 2018, the University Singers gave the regional premiere of Bernstein’s Mass on the Paramount Theatre, the group’s largest venture thus far.

Historical highlights have included concert events and workshops with Bobby McFerrin, Meredith Monk, and Otto-Werner Mueller, a efficiency for Hillary Clinton, a efficiency for the 2010 VMEA Conference, and frequent collaborations with the Charlottesville Symphony together with for the favored Family Holiday Concerts. Founded in 1972 by music director Jon Lafleur, the Kent Singers started its 50th season with our traditional holiday concerts on December 10 and 11, 2022 at St. Andrew’s Church in Kent, CT. A Holiday Retrospective, was presented to two full-home audiences on December 10 and 11, 2022 at St. Andrew’s Church in Kent, CT. Holiday live performance an enormous success! The concert included favourite selections from our repertoire through the years. In addition, the approach of using studying toys takes a lot of the strain off parents all through these younger years. The 2021-2022 season includes collaborations with the Oratorio Society of Virginia, and a program celebrating 50 years of women at UVA.