School Choral Teacher Workshop
June 10, 2024

As part of our commitment to support young choral students and teachers in northern New Mexico, the Chorale held a conducting workshop for school choral teachers on June 10.  Three young music teachers/conductors had the opportunity to study and conduct the Chorale under the instruction of Music Director George Case. Not only will the teachers benefit from their conducting workshop experience, their many students will benefit, too. The Chorale also benefited from the experience of having to pay close attention to different directors and their different styles, as well as learning from George’s engagement with them. A great time was had by all!

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Gratitude

As we complete our 46th season with the May 18 Earth Song concert, we are grateful to our audiences, supporters, families, and friends for continued support of the Sangre de Cristo Chorale.  As George said at the concert, the Chorale and our audiences and supporters are a community in which singing is a common denominator across the many joys and sorrows of life: birth and death, marriage and divorce, sickness and health, success and loss. Thank you for sharing the singing with us.

Although gratitude for spring and for nature was implicit in many of the pieces in the Earth Song concert, it was most explicit in Dan Forrest’s “i thank You God for most this amazing day,” a setting of the E. E. Cummings poem.  If you missed the concert or just want to hear the piece again, this is a great performance by the Atlanta Master Chorale in the world premiere of the piece.  And it is also wonderful to hear the poem in Cummings’ own words.

Please stay tuned for details of our 47th season!

Earth Song Program Book and George’s Program Notes

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The Chorale is grateful, too, for your continued generous support. Ticket sales cover less than one-third of our costs and your support is essential in bringing great singing to you

Singer Sidebars, Virtual Concerts, and Musical Works in Progress enabled us to stay in touch with our audiences while we could not perform in person. The entire archive is available here.

The mission of the Sangre de Cristo Chorale is to entertain, educate, unite, and inspire singers and audiences by performing quality choral music.