2008 Woodie Awards
Chorale begins season this weekend
Emily Boisvert
Issue date: 10/31/04 Section: News Stories
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The Assumption Chorale will open their season with a Cabaret show slated for the evenings of Friday, October 29th and Saturday, October 30th, during Family Weekend. In light of Assumption College's centennial celebration, the annual Family Weekend has as its theme "100 Years in the Movies." The Chorale show, appropriately titled "At the Movies: A Musical Review," is a retrospective look at film music from the past century. Oscar-winning songs will be featured, including some from as far back as the 1940's. A special section will include some of the best tunes from the animated Disney films of the last decade. Student soloists include Sophomores Christi Wheeler, Courtney Marshall, Alex DiPietro, Lindsay Flynn, Lindsay Haxton, and Heather Tierney and Freshmen Mark Blessington, Michael McDuffee, Michael Valatik, Colleen Walls, Adrienne Aquino, Melissa Robotham, Amanda Carelli, Melissa Cournoyer, and Amanda Richard. The Chorale will also perform in full ensemble with an emphasis on a cappella works.
The Chorale is an auditioned mixed-voice concert choir directed by Art and Music Professor Michelle Graveline and accompanied by Professor Ian Watson. This year there are over 40 singers participating in the Chorale which meets every Tuesday and Thursday from 4-5:15 p.m.
In years past, the Chorale has made six international and two national concert tours. Groups have traveled to France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, and Ireland and have performed at famous venues around the world including Notre Dame Cathedral in, Chartres Cathedral, St. Peter's Basilica, the French Embassy and the American Ambassador's Residence in Moscow, St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, and the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. The Chorale has twice had the distinction of meeting and performing for His Holiness, Pope John Paul II.
The Assumption Chorale will be joined by the renowned Salisbury Singers, also directed by Graveline, for a November 13th concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit. This show, called "Voices of the Earth," features Paul Winter's "Missa Gaia." Native American texts are added to the traditional Mass text in this New Age work for Chorus and Jazz Ensemble.
The Chorale is an auditioned mixed-voice concert choir directed by Art and Music Professor Michelle Graveline and accompanied by Professor Ian Watson. This year there are over 40 singers participating in the Chorale which meets every Tuesday and Thursday from 4-5:15 p.m.
In years past, the Chorale has made six international and two national concert tours. Groups have traveled to France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland, and Ireland and have performed at famous venues around the world including Notre Dame Cathedral in, Chartres Cathedral, St. Peter's Basilica, the French Embassy and the American Ambassador's Residence in Moscow, St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, and the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. The Chorale has twice had the distinction of meeting and performing for His Holiness, Pope John Paul II.
The Assumption Chorale will be joined by the renowned Salisbury Singers, also directed by Graveline, for a November 13th concert at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit. This show, called "Voices of the Earth," features Paul Winter's "Missa Gaia." Native American texts are added to the traditional Mass text in this New Age work for Chorus and Jazz Ensemble.