Our Spring 2024 SINGING FOR SENIORS FESTIVAL
is coming up on May 16
at the Peter Becker Community!
Click here for details!
On May 19 and June 2:
Ernst Bloch’s Sacred Service
The Choral Society will be joined by
Nashirah - the Jewish Chorale of Greater Philadelphia
click here for more details and tickets!
A Community of Voices
Looking Forward…
Many of the most inspired works in the choral repertory are settings of texts created for sacred liturgies. Some of the composers of this music were not followers of a faith tradition themselves, but were drawn to creating works that were much broader in scope and intended for a concert audience rather than a congregational setting. Their imaginations were drawn to questions of meaning and mortality that have always resonated deeply in human awareness.
REMEMBER
Ernst Bloch - Avodath Hakodesh (Sacred Service)
Sunday, May 19 at 5:00 Temple Rodeph Shalom (Phila.)
Sunday, June 2 at 4:00 at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, Doylestown
with Nashirah - The Jewish Chorale
of Greater Philadelphia, Julia Zavadsky, director
Timothy Harrell, organ
and Cantor Benjamin Warschawski
Remembering the history of family, loved ones, and community is the cornerstone of Jewish liturgy. We conclude our season with the preeminent concert setting of these inspired texts, Ernst Bloch’s dramatic and luminous Avodath Hakodesh. For two special performances in Doylestown and at Temple Rodeph Shalom in Philadelphia, we will be joined by Nashirah – The Jewish Chorale of Greater Philadelphia. The program will also include the premiere of a new work by Cantor Natasha J. Hirschhorn, and Thomas Lloyd’s recent setting of Psalm 46, River of Gladness.
Julia Zavadsky
Cantor Natasha J. Hirschhorn
Our Choir
Audition For The Choir
We are now planning auditions for the first two Tuesdays in September with openings in all parts! Click “read more” below to find out more about membership and apply for an audition time. read more…
Audio and Video clips
Hear what we sound like in a wide variety of musical styles. For audio and video clips of Choral Society performances, click here...
repertoire and collaborations
Innovative programming, major works, collaborations with choirs all over the world: here are complete lists of repertoire and partners since 2000. read more…
our volunteer leadership
Meet our Board of Directors and Choir Council who keep us going and make sure ‘the trains run on time’ (Choir President Susan McDonnell and Board Chair Amy Schmidt pictured above) read more...
Our staff
Our professional musical staff includes Artistic Director Thomas Lloyd, Assistant Conductor Susan Johnson, accompanist Tim Harrell, and a quartet of section leaders. read more...
Our history and Mission
Read about how our choir started in 1973 and how our mission has carried us forward since then! read more…
Outreach to Our Extended Family
singing for seniors
Since 2005, the Choral Society’s Singing for Seniors program has held two festivals annually. Since the first festival, over 3,000 seniors have participated. We are excited to announce our first in-person festival since the Covid pandemic on Thursday, May 16, 2024 at Peter Becker Community, 800 Maple Ave. Harleysville, PA 19438. For details and registration click here…
Master Teacher Suzanne DuPlantis with 2023 Voices of the Future finalists and event sponsors Alice and Bob Vernon.
voices of the future
Our 7th annual Voices of the Future program for Bucks County will place at the James Lorah Memorial Home in Doylestown on Saturday, March 30, 2024 in a public master class with acclaimed teacher Paul Spencer Adkins. Click here for more information and an application for next year’s competition!
Our Music: shared resources for learning
A History of the african-american spiritual
An extended multi-media website on the history of the African American Spiritual. read more…
A listener’s guide to
Cesar Franck’s The Beatitudes
elgar’s the apostleS
A multi-media walk through the unique history of both the music and the composer of this late-Romantic masterwork. read more…
Berlioz Requiem
A podcast with musical exceprts comparing Berlioz' setting of the requiem texts those of Mozart and Verdi. read more…
J. S. Bach: Mass in B Minor
An introduction to what Bach saw as his finest work. read more…
St. Matthew Passion
An 8-part video introduction to this iconic work. read more…
Your Support
your gift makes a difference!
Your contribution will help assure that the Choral Society can continue to play a pivotal role in the artistic vitality of Bucks County, bringing together outstanding professional and avocational musicians in performances of great music from across the stylistic spectrum (and without the commute time or expense to New York or Philly!) read more…