2018-2019 Season

The Hartford Chorale is pleased to announce our 2018-2019 season!

We open the season with “Bernstein, Barber, and Brahms” – Hartford Chorale’s tribute to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein, with an excerpt from his Mass: A Theater Piece, an opportunity to be moved by the poignancy of Samuel Barber’s famous “Adagio for Strings,” and to be stirred by what is considered by many to be the quintessential choral-orchestral work, Ein deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms, all featuring the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and the Manchester Roundtable Singers and Alumni from Manchester High School.

Thursday October 18, 2018- 7:30 pm
Mortensen Hall, The Bushnell
Hartford, CT
Richard Coffey, Conductor

Handel’s Messiah
As guest artists of the Waterbury Symphony Orchestra, Hartford Chorale singers bring one of our signature pieces to the audiences of Waterbury and Litchfield, joined by soloists from Yale.

Saturday December 1, 2018
St. Anthony of Padua Church, Litchfield – 7:30 pm
Sunday December 2, 2018
Naugatuck Valley Community College, Waterbury– 3:00 pm
Leif Bjaland, Conductor

Vaughan Williams & Mendelssohn
Heavenly voices will fill Belding Theater in April! Vaughan Williams’ blissful Fantasia on “Greensleeves” was originally used in his opera, Sir John with Love, inspired by Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor. His haunting Dona Nobis Pacem is a plea for peace in the years leading up to World War II. Mendelssohn’s elegant Symphony No. 2 “Lobgesang” (“Hymn of Praise”) echoes Beethoven’s Ninth, and is a celebration of the German Reformation.

Hartford Symphony Orchestra
Friday April 12, 2019 – 8:00 pm
Saturday April 13, 2019 – 8:00 pm
Sunday April 14, 2019 – 3:00 pm
Belding Theater, The Bushnell
Hartford, CT
Carolyn Kuan, Conductor