Concordia Chorale Opening Season With Invitation For New Members

NEW MILFORD — The Connecticut Conservatory of the Performing Arts has set September 10 as the date rehearsals will begin for Concordia Chorale’s second season. The chorale is a non-audition, inter-generational, community choir funded in part by Waterbury Foundation and New Milford Commission on the Arts.

The winter concert scheduled for December 9 will include Rutter’s Gloria and several traditional and not-so-traditional selections. New members are welcome.

The choir will be directed by Sean Burton, a summa cum laude graduate of the Hartt School/University of Hartford, where he obtained his BM in music education.

Lyn Nagel of Southbury, a student of the conservatory who guest conducted her high school choir last year, has been named assistant conductor. Ms Nagel taught this past summer for the conservatory’s “On The Stage” theatre discovery program. She has many performance credits including the Broadway production of Carousel.

Experienced and new singers can join the Concordia Chorale simply by calling the Conservatory. Individual memberships are $50, family memberships are $100. Membership covers the cost of scores, and all members receive two free tickets to each concert.

For more information, call 860/354-2978. Rehearsals are held at the school, at 79 West Street.

 

Chorale Honored With

A Pair Of Grants

Connecticut Conservatory of the Performing Arts has received two grants in support of Concordia Chorale.

The Waterbury Foundation has continued its support of the group, which is about to start its second season, with a grant of $2,500. The New Milford Commission on the Arts awarded a grant for $1,500 for the coming season.

The Waterbury Foundation, a community foundation for the Naugatuck Valley and Litchfield Hills, provides grants to non-profit organizations and scholarships to students in its 21-town service area. Founded in 1923, grants from the foundation are funded by over 200 individual funds created by local donors who want to give back to the communities in which they have lived and worked.