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Our Tenth Season

Last chance to hear the New Choir this season!

We began our Ninth season with the performance of the great Christmas oratorio Messiah by George Frederic Handel. It was fun to perform at the Le'Petit Trianon Theatre again. It was a great concert and the audience enjoyed the performance and joined the choir for the singing of the Hallelujah chorus.

It's hard to believe we're already getting ready to wrap up this season. Our final performance wil be in June and summer cannot come early enough because our final concert program consists of loeve songs spanning 600 years. This is probably the most diverse program we've ever had. As always, there's some old music (Renaissance love songs, Bach's Wedding Cantata, Brahm's Liebeslieder Waltzes) and some new music (Eric Whitacre's Hebrew Love Songs, compositions by top young Korean choral composers).

Be sure to mark down the dates and join us! For those of you in the Pleasanton area, please note that the Pleasanton performance will include a performance by the Cantabella Children's Choir. The Cantabella choir will participate in the Golden Gate International Choral Festival in July, 2009 under the direction of our music director, Eileen Chang.

Eighth was our busiest season ever

We brought the season to a close with our concert in June. This concert was really exciting for us because we did something completely new, literally! We commissioned five new works from three composers specifically for this performance. Five of these works were premiering during the first half of the program and the second half of the program featured Haydn's Organ Mass and Renaissance motets by Hassler, Handl and Gibbons.

It was a wonderful program of old and new music and the June concerts were great success!

We wrapped up our 7th season with a double-choir treat.

The Choral Alchemy of Los Angeles (CALA) and the New Choir joined together under the direction of Eileen Chang for a concert to the heavenly land. The performances were in Anaheim and San Jose. The program included Stanford's motet for double choir, Coelos Ascendit Hodie, Bach's double motet, Komm, Jesu, Komm, and three settings of Kyrie by Dufay, Palestrina and Beethoven. We also had the great pleasure of introducing another new composition by Ms. Nak-Keum Baik, the Jacob's Ladder.

2007 - New Choir Spring concert with CALA

The 7th annual Christmas with the New Choir took you on a journey around the world.

We brought to you an evening of Christmas music with works old and new from all around the world. The program included works by Stanford, Lauridsen, Poulenc, Victoria, Mozart, Mechem and others and the performance set a new record for us for the number of different languages performed in a single concert. We sang in Latin, French, Burgundian, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese and, of course, Korean and English.

Our thanks to the faithful New Choir audience who again chose to make this concert a part of their Christmas tradition and celebrated Christmas with us!

Our sixth season proved to be a very busy and exciting one. Here are some highlights from the past season:

New Choir 2006 Spring Concert: Conversations with God more info...
New Choir enjoys great reception at the 2006 ACDA Western Division Convention more info...
The 6th Christmas with the New Choir more info...
New Choir selected once again as recipient of grant from the Arts Council Silicon Valley, Community Arts Fund more info...

As always, we are grateful to you, our supporters, for your continued interest and financial support. Without your support, we would not be able to bring you such great news. Thank you once again.

For more information about the New Choir,
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email: info@newchoir.org

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