SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. The Saratoga Choral Festival seeks experienced singers with good sight-reading and vocal abilities for its 16th season. Singers will meet for rehearsals over a three-week period in Saratoga Springs beginning Tuesday, July 12th and will perform in a concert at the SPA LITTLE THEATER on Sunday, July 31st, at 3:00 p.m. This summer’s performance celebrates the 50th Anniversary of the Performing Arts Center in a concert of music written for an audience of children featuring a semi-staged production of the extremely popular Magic Tree House- The Musical. Rehearsals are part of a three-week workshop.
Also included on the program will be setting of children’s songs Kitty Alone, Bye’m Bye, Goin’ to Boston, and Buffalo gals by Alice Parker in celebration of her 90th birthday, Sing a Song of Sixpence by John Rutter, and the Never-Ending Song, a Young Person’s Guide to the Choir, and more.
The Magic Tree House: The Musical is based on the popular series of children’s books by Mary Pope Osborne. The show has seen sold out performances for its national tour. Several musical selections have been adapted for chorus, and special guest performers from the Saratoga Children’s Theater will provide extra speaking roles and also sing with the choir. This will be a brand new adaptation of the musical.
The Saratoga Choral Festival began in 2001. The chorus has performed with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Mahler’s 3rd Symphony with the Harlem Boys Choir at SPAC, with Charles Dutoit conducting. Previous seasons have featured music ranging from Bach’s Magnificat with members of the Philadelphia Orchestra and Gretchaninov’s Liturgia Domestica to performances of the music of Karl Jenkins, Dave Brubeck, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and a 2015 special celebration for the Saratoga Springs Centennial. Performances are held in the Spa Little Theater, the summer home of Opera Saratoga and the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in Saratoga Spa State Park.
The Festival is under the artistic direction of Andrea Goodman, currently the Director of the Cantilena Chamber Choir in Western Massachusetts, and former director of Choruses at Skidmore College.
Participation in the Choir will be considered on the basis of a submitted resume or letter detailing choral experience and an in-person audition for new members in Saratoga Springs on Tuesday, June 14th. Applicants must possess a good voice and have had some recent experience in singing choral music. For further information, request a brochure or registration, the Festival website address is www.saratogachoralfest.org. One may also register through the email address satbchoir @yahoo.com. Our phone number is (518)-791-0185. Registration deadline is June 1st, 2016.
Leave a Reply
You must be logged in to post a comment.