State College Choral Society

Website https://www.scchoralsociety.org/this-season

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  • Community Event – “State College Choral Society: New Beginnings”

    Penn State Recital Hall Music Building on Allen Rd, University Park, PA, United States

    With new Artistic Director, Eric Clayton. Featuring members of the Pennsylvania Chamber Orchestra and Madeleine Christopher, mezzo soprano. Concert pieces include: Singet Dem Herrn by Johann Pachelbel, Fern Hill by John Corigliano, Five Hebrew Love Songs by Eric Whitacre, Dixit Dominus by Frideric Handel, The Ground by Ola Gjeilo, and a commissioned work - Be Still My Soul, by Sheridan Seyfried.

  • Community Event: State College Choral Society Performance – “Romance Is In the Air”

    Penn State Recital Hall Music Building on Allen Rd, University Park, PA, United States

    In February, we will present Brahms’ timeless masterpiece the Liebeslieder Waltzes. A collection of sixteen short songs in ¾ time, this is Brahms at his most charming and tuneful, bounding from flirtation to dejection, rage to contentment. The second half of the concert contains a bouquet of favorite love songs from the English and American traditions, including a stunning arrangement of Somewhere from "West Side Story". See more information and ticket purchases here.

  • Community Event: State College Choral Society – Luck, Laughter, and Love (Williamsport)

    Community Arts Center 220 West Fourth Street, Williamsport, PA, United States

    We are excited to be joining forces with the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra to open the 77th season of the State College Choral Society with the perennial favorite, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. Inspired by a collection of Medieval poetry from southern Germany, Orff composed the music in 1935 in a style purposefully much simpler and more tonal than his contemporaries Schoenberg and Stravinsky.  The poetry’s focus on the fickleness of luck, life in the tavern, and the thrill of springtime and love, are as relevant today as when they were written nearly one thousand years ago.  The iconic music of Carmina Burana [...]

  • Community Event: State College Choral Society – Luck, Laughter, and Love (State College)

    State College Area High School Performance Hall 650 Westerly Pkwy, State College, PA, United States

    We are excited to be joining forces with the Williamsport Symphony Orchestra to open the 77th season of the State College Choral Society with the perennial favorite, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana. Inspired by a collection of Medieval poetry from southern Germany, Orff composed the music in 1935 in a style purposefully much simpler and more tonal than his contemporaries Schoenberg and Stravinsky.  The poetry’s focus on the fickleness of luck, life in the tavern, and the thrill of springtime and love, are as relevant today as when they were written nearly one thousand years ago.  The iconic music of Carmina Burana [...]