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A yearly tradition. Voce Chamber Singers begins the vacation season with a free concert within the Willard’s beautifully decorated historic lobby. In recent times, the Singers have also sung for Les Misérables creators Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil during their UVA residencies, sung for the 2016 UVA Holiday greeting, which acquired greater than 400,000 views on social media, and taken a two-week concert tour of England, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Austria. Produced by Maureen McMullan ’09, this genre-spanning live performance will showcase a strong collective of singers, instrumentalists, arrangers, observe producers, dancers, and visual designers, who will carry to the stage their artistry, culture, and inventive, recent preparations of flagship songs that continue to resonate with people world wide. The day has finally arrived and you should rejoice because you made it across that stage. While Donald Glover is properly-known for his music underneath the stage identify Childish Gambino, he has also had a notable appearing career on FX’s hit series Atlanta. Andy Grammer croons on this 2011 on the spot hit.

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Recent North American tours have taken the group to Atlanta, Boston, Buffalo, Charlotte, Charleston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Montreal, New Orleans, Orlando, New York City, Philadelphia, Providence, Toronto, and the National Cathedral in Washington D.C. The Underground Railroad (sweet chariot) is coming south (swing low) to take the slave to the north or freedom (carry me home). Auditions: Auditions for the University Singers take place in the beginning of every semester. The University Singers is the University of Virginia’s flagship choral ensemble, heard by 1000’s every season in performances of a cappella and accompanied choral repertoire, including main works with orchestra. Recent repertoire has included Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9 with the Charlottesville Symphony, Bach’s Mass in B minor, Handel’s Messiah, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, Verdi’s Requiem, and Vaughan Williams Dona Nobis Pacem, premieres of works by Stephen Paulus, Forrest Pierce, Judith Shatin, and Eric Whitacre, and a program that includes African-American composers reminiscent of Nathaniel Dett, Moses Hogan, and H.T Burleigh. In 2017, the group joined the Charlottesville Symphony on the steps of the Rotunda to carry out for UVA’s Bicentennial Launch Celebration, before an estimated crowd of 20,000. In 2018, the University Singers gave the regional premiere of Bernstein’s Mass at the Paramount Theatre, the group’s largest challenge to date.

Historical highlights have included live shows and workshops with Bobby McFerrin, Meredith Monk, and Otto-Werner Mueller, a efficiency for Hillary Clinton, a performance for the 2010 VMEA Conference, and frequent collaborations with the Charlottesville Symphony together with for the popular Family Holiday Concerts. Founded in 1972 by music director Jon Lafleur, the Kent Singers began its 50th season with our traditional vacation concert events on December 10 and 11, 2022 at St. Andrew’s Church in Kent, CT. A Holiday Retrospective, was offered to two full-home audiences on December 10 and 11, 2022 at St. Andrew’s Church in Kent, CT. Holiday concert an enormous success! The live performance included favourite selections from our repertoire over the years. In addition, the strategy of using learning toys takes a lot of the strain off mother and father throughout these younger years. The 2021-2022 season consists of collaborations with the Oratorio Society of Virginia, and a program celebrating 50 years of girls at UVA.