Connecticut Master Chorale

Holiday Prelude Concert

Fall 2015 Concert

Sunday November 22, 2015 - 3:00 pm
First Congregational Church, Danbury, CT
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  Ticker Freeman

  Glorious sounds of the season triumph in a splendid selection of distinctive choral music accompanied by brass ensemble and steel drums. Introducing a new calypso work by Tina Johns Heidrich, "A Big Band Christmas", music for Hanukkah and Advent, lullabies, multi-cultural numbers, and other festive selections.

Duke Ellington's Sacred Concert

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American Rhapsody - Z. Randall Stroope

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United We Stand
Sally K. Albrecht and Jay Althouse

Spring 2016 Concert

Sunday April 3, 2016 - 3:00 pm
First Congregational Church, Danbury, CT

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  Sacred Concert

  From 1966 to 1974, Duke Ellington and his Big Band Orchestra toured the United States and Europe to great acclaim with his remarkable Three Sacred Concerts. This arrangement draws together the best pieces of all three concerts into a single work, recreating what Ellington called "the most important thing I have ever done".
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  Z. Randall Stroope

  American Rhapsody

  Dr. Stroope assembled this creative song cycle to celebrate our American heartland with distinctive music. It is a stimulating medley underscoring the significant contribution America has made to music using Copland's 'the Promise of Living' as the flagship theme.
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  Sally K. Albrecht

  

  Jay Althouse

  United We Stand

  This stirring tribute to America offers a stunning opening fanfare, excerpts of Simple Gifts, America, the Beautiful, America and the chorus of Battle Hymn of the Republic, and leads up to a big final statement of the fanfare of United We Stand.