The West Village Chorale :: Upcoming Events

Messiah Sing
Caroling Walk
Winter Concert, January 2010
Spring Concert, May 2010

Messiah Sing

Monday, December 14, 2009 :: 7:30pm

Join us again this year for the West Village Chorale's annual audience participation Sing of Handel's Messiah in the historic and charming Church of St. Luke in the Fields (487 Hudson Street in New York City's Greenwich Village). This very popular Sing begins at 7:30pm, but you should plan to get there before 7:15.

Admission is $12, and $10 for seniors and students. Tickets are NOT available in advance, but can be purchased at the door. While the audience is usually quite large, there is plenty of seating in the church -- and singers will sit in their respective voice sections. If you don't wish to sing, just come and enjoy the glorious music!

Scores are provided, and refreshments are served at intermission. While time does not permit the singing of the entire Messiah, most of the favorite choruses are sung from all three parts of the work -- and yes, the Hallelujah Chorus is always sung! We look forward to sharing this wonderful masterpiece with you!

Greenwich Village Caroling Walk

Friday, December 18, 2009 :: 7:00pm

Join us as we continue a tradition of the Chorale and the neighborhood since 1974! Our Caroling Walk is a free family event for all. Carolers meet in the school cafeteria off the rear courtyard of the Church of St. Luke in the Fields (487 Hudson Street, one block south of Christopher Street in the West Village). We stroll from the church through the Dickens-like historic neighborhood, singing carols and seasonal songs led by members of the Chorale, and then stroll back to St. Luke's school cafeteria for refreshments.

"American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God"

Choral Music from the American South and Appalachia
Saturday, January 23, 2010

Works will include:
» William Averitt's Afro-American Fragments, based on texts by Langston Hughes
» Classic spirituals and shape-note tunes, in arrangements by Marylou Jackson, Alice Parker, Brad Holmes
» Choral works by Undine Smith Moore, Adolphus Hailstork, Ronald Stabeli, Frank Ticheli
» The world premiere of Appalachian Requiem, by Michael Conley (WVC Musical Director)
     with chorus, soloists, string quartet, hammered-dulcimer, and piano

"Around the World in Eighty Minutes"

Saturday, May 15, 2010

A multimedia performance following an imaginary time-traveler through important moments in choral-music history, from the early Renaissance in Europe to twenty-first-century composers around the globe.