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The
Hot Springs Music Festival Chorus,
Laura Rosenberg, director, is a community-based vocal
ensemble whose mission is to perform major choral/orchestral
works with the Hot Springs Music Festival Orchestras
in featured Festival concerts. In a Festival environment
whose musicians come from all over the world, the
Festival Chorus provides a musical link to the residents
of Central Arkansas.
With
the Festival Orchestras, the Festival Chorus has performed
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (twice in the
arrangement by Gustav Mahler), Mass in C and
Choral Fantasy, Berlioz' Symphonie funèbre
et triomphale, Brahms' A German Requiem,
Holst's Planets, Key/Rosenberg's Star-Spangled
Banner Suite, Mozart's Requiem and
Die Zauberflöte, Orff's Carmina Burana,
Mahler's Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3, P. D.
Q. Bach's The Art of the Ground Round, Mendelssohn's
incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream,
Tchaikovsky's restored Overture Solenelle
1812, American composer Jerome Moross' ballet
ballad Willie the Weeper (which Naxos Records
recorded for international distribution), Cole Porter's
Aladdin, Johann Strauss, II: On the Beautiful
Blue Danube (original version), Sir Arthur Sullivan:
Hearken Unto Me, My People, Ernst Toch:
Geographical Fugue, Gilbert & Sullivan: The
Mikado (complete original version), Stravinsky's
Symphony of Psalms and Verdi's Messa
da Requiem - often with members of the Dallas
Symphony Chorus, the Plano Civic Chorus.
Festival
Chorus membership is by audition; members must be
able to follow a line of music and match pitch. Current
Chorus membership includes singers from ages 16 to
80, with a broad variety of musical experience. To
schedule an audition appointment, call 501.623.4763.
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May 8, 15, 22, 29
June 7, 9am-noon, with Maestro Ernest Hoetzl at St. Luke's Episcopal Church
June 7, 2-5pm, Fieldhouse
June 8, 1:30-4pm, Dress Rehearsal, Fieldhouse
June 8, 6:45pm, warm-up, Fieldhouse
June 8, 7:30pm, Performance |
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