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Concert DescriptionsFall Outreach ConcertThis fall the concert of the Waukesha Choral Union (WCU) will include the Carroll College Concert Choir, Tim Cloeter – director, and the Childrens Choir of Waukesha , Diane Skrobis - director. The performance will include individual selections from each of the invited choirs followed by a presentation by WCU and the Carroll College of the Schubert Mass in G. In the second half of the concert all three choirs, and Brian Leper, baritone, will combine to sing John Rutter’s Mass of the Children. The Mass of the Children is the focal point of the concert and celebrates a Missa Brevis in a most unique form by featuring the children as the key players in a choral work depicting a metaphor of everyone’s life as a day in the life of a child from “waking to sleeping”.Lessons and CarolsIn the tradition of King’s College, Oxford England, the Choral Union presents an annual concert setting of the biblical Christmas story in a series of Lessons and Carols. This concert is the most popular of the Choral Union offerings because of its connection to the Christmas season and people who come to the concert indicate that Christmas does not really begin for them until they have heard this concert. The
carols include many of the traditional and most popular Christmas
pieces but the Choral Union, honoring their commitment to enrich the
community always tries to include new and unique carols in the concert.MessiahThe annual Messiah concert is a most unique offering of Waukesha’s community choir. Any singer who wishes to participate is welcome to this week long preparation and presentation of Handel’s Messiah. A 30 year old tradition, the concert is free to the public with all of the cost including hiring an orchestra and soloists covered completely by contributions from the business community. Singers are required to attend three rehearsals on Sunday, Tuesday, and Saturday of the performance week. Soloists and the orchestra rehearse together on Friday evening of performance week and the chorus and orchestra rehearse together on Saturday. The 2:00 PM Sunday performance has traditionally been held on Palm Sunday but this year is an exception as the concert will be presented a week earlier.Spring Concert – Requiem by Wolfgang Amadeus MozartLast year was 250th celebration of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s birth and the Choral Union joined that celebration with a presentation of his Vespers Confessorae and Coronation Mass. This year WCU will extend that celebration with two of the most popular of Mozart’s creations, his Requiem Mass and the motet, Ave Verum. As glamorized in the movie Amadeus, it is believed that Mozart thought he was writing his own Requiem, haunted by visions and visits from his deceased father. The Ave Verum was one of the very few of his selections that was not written for a profit; this composition was a gift.The often performed Requiem was last performed by a number of members of WCU when they joined several Milwaukee area choruses in a “Rolling Requiem”. One year after the attack, and in every time zone in the world, at the precise time (in that time zone) that the first plane flew into the World Trade Center tower, at least one performance of Mozart’s Requiem was begun. Hence, the concept of a Requiem, sung in tribute to those who suffered or lost their lives in that attack, rolling around the world. The Waukesha Choral Union will be joined by their orchestra and professional soloist for this concert. |
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