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Waukesha
Choral
Union 2009 - 2010 Season
Putting
Together a
Community of Singers
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AH,
YOUTH
Sunday, October 25th,
2009
- 3:00 pm
Shattuck Auditorium,
Carroll University, Waukesha
Special
guests: Muskego High School Choir,
Matthew
Wanner director; Waukesha South
High
School Choir, Jason Brinker director
Songs of love and youth fill the air! Waukesha Choral
Union shares the Shattuck stage with two of the state’s
finest high school choirs: Muskego and Waukesha South. Following their
separate selections, WCU performs Eric Whitacres’ charming
“Five Hebrew Love Songs” and excerpts from
Brahms’ “Liebeslieder Walzer.” In the big
finale, all forces combine, à la puzzle pieces, for
Aaron Copland’s inspirational “The Promise of
Living.”
Concert Review
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MAGNIFICAT,
MAGNIFICAT
Friday, December
11th, 2009 - 8:00 pm
St.
Luke’s Lutheran Church, Waukesha
Sunday, December
13th, 2009 - 3:00 pm
St.
Catherine’s Catholic Church, Oconomowoc
A perfect occasion for your family to piece together the Holidays.
Experience Luke's gospel text set by composers from three
different eras. "My Soul Magnifies the Lord" was the profession of Mary
upon learning she would bear the Savior. WCU performs Italian Antonio
Vivaldi's "Magnificat" (Part 1 Part 2) from the early 1700s; the late 1800s English
composer, Charles Stanford's "Magnificat;" and Russian Sergei
Rachmaninoff's "Magnificat" movement from his 1915 work, "All-night
vigil."
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HAYDN’S
“CREATION”:
A GIFT TO THE
COMMUNITY
Sunday, March
28th, 2010 - 3:00 pm
Shattuck
Auditorium, Carroll University, Waukesha
Waukesha Choral Union has been performing Handel’s “Messiah” or Haydn’s “Creation” as a free concert annually for over three decades. This longstanding tradition is funded by area businesses, foundations, and benefactors as well as through generous donations from patrons. A silent auction of donated merchandise and services will also be held in conjunction with the concert.
Haydn’s masterwork oratorio, based upon the creation account in the book of Genesis, the book of Psalms, and John Milton’s Paradise Lost, was completed in 1798. The oratorio has three parts; the first depicts the elements; the second, animals and man; and the third, an earthly paradise. The soloists play the roles of the Archangels Gabriel, Uriel and Raphael in the first two parts, and Adam and Eve in the third. Here’s where you become a piece of this
season’s puzzle. Any singer who wishes to participate is
welcome to take part in the weeklong preparation for this annual choral
event.
Read the program
Read the program insert (guest singers, silent auction items, 2010-11 WCU season) |
VERDI’S
“REQUIEM”
Sunday, May 16,
2010 - 3:00 pm • Oconomowoc Arts Center
Waukesha
Choral Union’s biggest collaboration ever!
With
Bel Canto Chorus, Milwaukee Choristers and Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra
The story of this major work is a puzzle in itself. It begins
with the death of fellow composer, Gioachino Rossini in
1868. Giuseppe Verdi proposed a memorial mass, in
which leading Italian composers would each contribute
one section. The project was poorly organized and was
never performed. Five years later, the Italian writer and
humanist Alessandro Manzoni, whom Verdi had admired
all his adult life and met in 1868, died. Verdi resolved to
complete the work, this time entirely of his own writing. The
“Requiem” was first performed the following May in
Milan. Verdi himself conducted. In the following year, it was given all
over Italy, in Paris, London, Vienna, and even America. The
“Requiem” has become one of Verdi’s most
popular compositions.
Click HERE for Verdi Requiem Tickets
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Concert Locations
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Ah, Youth (10/25/09 - 3pm) and
Haydn's
"Creation" (3/28/10 - 3pm)
Carroll University – Shattuck Auditorium
100 North East Avenue
Waukesha, WI 53186-559 |
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Magnificat,
Magnificat (12/11/09 - 8pm)
St. Luke’s Lutheran Church
300 Carroll St
Waukesha, WI 53186 |
map & directions |
Magnificat,
Magnificat (12/13/09 - 3pm)
St. Catherine’s Catholic Church
W359N8512 Brown St
Oconomowoc, WI 53066 |
map & directions |
Verdi's
"Requiem" (5/16/10 - 3pm)
Oconomowoc
Arts Center
641 E. Forest St.
Oconomowoc, WI 53066
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