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Photo: Rick Wallace Welcome to the Vashon Island Chorale's web site! We are dedicated to performing fine choral music in and for the Vashon/Maury Island community. Please feel free to roam our web site to find out more about us. We hope to see you at an upcoming concert, or perhaps singing with us in the future!
News:
Come hear the "home town
group" singing in the "big city"!!!
The Vashon Island Chorale will sing Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Requiem Mass in D Minor -- widely considered his choral masterpiece -- at Benaroya Hall on Sunday, March 14th. The Chorale will join three other performing arts ensembles: Cascadian Chorale, Everett Chorale, and Rainier Chorale.
Islander Jennifer Krikawa (of Vashon Opera fame) will perform the soprano solo and the Chorale's artistic director, Gary Cannon, will step away from his usual conducting role to sing the tenor solo. Other soloists are Kathryn Weld and Glenn Guhr.
The Requiem, Mozart’s final composition, was still left undone before his death in December, 1791. The first movement was performed in two sections five days after he died. Most music historians believe that the work was completed by Mozart’s student, Franz Xaver Süssmayr and performed in Vienna on January 2, 1793 at a benefit concert for the composer’s widow, Constanze, and their two sons.
In addition to Mozart’s Requiem, the Chorale will sing their own fifteen minute set that will include George Gershwin’s Sing of Spring, Aaron Copland’s Zion’s Walls and Randall Thompson’s The Road Not Taken from Frostiana.
The Chorale, which was established in 1989, has performed Mozart’s Requiem three times, in 1997, in 2002 -- to commemorate the victims of the September 11 attacks -- and and in 2005.
Buy your tickets now for this exciting performance -- and the Chorale’s only performance this spring -- Sunday, March 14th, 2:00 pm at the S. Mark Taper Auditorium, Benaroya Hall, 200 University St., Seattle. Seating is festival style. Tickets are available for $25 at Books by the Way, Vashon Bookshop, Vashon Allied Arts or through any Chorale member.
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