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Last November we joined forces with the children's choirs at the Pennsylvania Academy of Music for a set of open workshops and to perform the U.S. premier of “Circle Song”, a demanding work by world-renown British composer and conductor Bob Chilcott. The concert was a marvelous experience and both composer and audience were thrilled with the beautiful facility and the dynamic performance.

The December performances of Vivaldi’s Gloria! together with the wide variety of seasonal selections led many loyal patrons to describe the experience as one of the best ever. One patron wrote that a week before the concert she had buried a beloved friend who suffered through a very difficult and demanding illness. “I entered the church with what seemed like an intolerable weight of worry, sorrow and care. The beautiful music and the reassuring promise of God that was conveyed by the lyrics brought a reassurance to me that I did not expect and I left the concert with renewed spirit and a new perspective. Thank you for touching my life.” Can any performer possibly want more? Can there be any question that well-rehearsed and well-performed music can make a difference in someone’s life?

In January we began our preparation for our Spring Concert featuring Mozart’s Requiem Mass as well as diverse selections by various contemporary composers. Rehearsals have been demanding yet energetic. Mozart’s Requiem is one of the most important and most beautiful works in the history of choral music – made more poignant by being the work on which Mozart was laboring at the time of his early death. Many composers have labored in varying degrees to complete the work but none has captured the creative genius or achieved the brilliance of Herr Mozart. This baroque classic will be balanced with a set of Nocturnes, or Night Poems, set by Morten Lauridsen, a contemporary composer whose lush harmonies and wonderful writing has made him a favorite chorale and audience alike. The second half will close with stirring settings of spirituals by Moses Hogan and Andre J. Thomas.

You can check out our Spring Repertoire and the concerts venues on this website. You can even print out and submit a ticket order form.

On May 3rd we will appear in concert with the Berks Classical Children’s Chorus at Atonement Lutheran Church in Wyomissing, PA. Please contact the BCCC at their website: bcccsings@dejazzd.com for tickets and more details.

Contact The Wheatland Chorale at:

Wheatland.Chorale@gmail.com

Wheatland Chorale Administrative Correspondence

P.O. Box 5354

Lancaster, PA 17606-5354

Wheatland Chorale Ticket and CD Sales

P.O. Box 5945

Wyomissing, PA 19610-5945

For ticket information, please visit our Ticket Sales page.

The Wheatland Chorale receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of

Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.