“We invite you to share the beautiful and inspiring music the Chorale will be presenting in its 41st anniversary season.” Christian Grube Christmas with the Chorale Saturday, December 16, 2023, 8:00pm Sunday, December 17, 2023, 4:00pm Holy Cross Church 123 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060 The centerpiece of this year’s “Christmas with the Chorale“ is […]
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The Santa Cruz Chorale’s final concert of the season, entitled “Hope and Joy” will feature two accomplished soloists, baritone Sepp Hammer, and tenor Jonathan Smucker. We are pleased to introduce them to you: Sepp Hammer, baritone How many operatic baritones have a bachelor’s degree in physics from Berkeley? Sepp Hammer is that unicorn. He went […]
For millennia, hope and joy have been expressed through music. In our upcoming concert, the Santa Cruz Chorale brings you Psalm settings of power and beauty that sing of these timeless human emotions; texts of the same Psalms will be sung in settings by different composers, and in German, English and Latin. We begin by […]
Dear Friends of the Chorale,Join us for Christmas with the Chorale! Our musical celebration spans the centuries, from the glorious 16th-century polyphony of Clemens Non Papas’ Magi Veniunt, Vicente Lusitano’s Regina Caeli, to Buxtehude’s Magnificat, and contemporary composer Eric Whitacre’s meditation on winter, Glow. Traditional and sacred music and festive carols from around the world […]
Dear Friends of the Chorale, The Santa Cruz Chorale will present its final concert for the 2021-2022 season this coming Saturday and Sunday. We are busy putting the final touches to the performance, rehearsing with the full orchestra and our wonderful soloists. This is going to be a fun concert! For the first time, we’re […]
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