{"id":794278,"date":"2019-03-28T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/practice-practice-practice-summit-choral-society-heads-to-carnegie-hall-for-third-year\/"},"modified":"2019-03-28T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T00:00:00","slug":"practice-practice-practice-summit-choral-society-heads-to-carnegie-hall-for-third-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/practice-practice-practice-summit-choral-society-heads-to-carnegie-hall-for-third-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice, practice, practice: Summit Choral Society heads to Carnegie Hall for third year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery\" readability=\"6.4052287581699\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-363689-203\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/ChoralSociety-ESW-032919-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/ChoralSociety-ESW-032919-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com | The Summit Choral Society rehearses on Monday, March 25, at the Christ Lutheran Church in Breckenridge.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"7.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/ChoralSociety-ESW-032919-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Summit Choral Society rehearses on Monday, March 25, at the Christ Lutheran Church in Breckenridge.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>The Summit Choral Society rehearses on Monday, March 25, at the Christ Lutheran Church in Breckenridge.<\/strong><br \/>Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/ChoralSociety-ESW-032919-1-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/ChoralSociety-ESW-032919-1-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com | The Summit Choral Society rehearses on Monday, March 25, at the Christ Lutheran Church in Breckenridge.\" class=\"h-100\">\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\" readability=\"7.5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/03\/ChoralSociety-ESW-032919-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"The Summit Choral Society rehearses on Monday, March 25, at the Christ Lutheran Church in Breckenridge.\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>The Summit Choral Society rehearses on Monday, March 25, at the Christ Lutheran Church in Breckenridge.<\/strong><br \/>Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/explore-summit\/practice-practice-practice-summit-choral-society-heads-to-carnegie-hall-for-third-year\/#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/explore-summit\/practice-practice-practice-summit-choral-society-heads-to-carnegie-hall-for-third-year\/#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText DropCap\">Some artists wait their whole lives to go to Carnegie Hall. The Summit Choral Society, however, is fortunate enough to be returning to the prestigious stage in New York City for a third time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s a huge venue with a storied past,\u201d said Cathie Hill, president of the Summit Choral Society. \u201cIt\u2019s the grand dame of performance venues in the country. It\u2019s somewhat intimidating frankly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Hill is no stranger to legendary music locations. As the choir teacher at Summit High School for 13 years, she has taken her students to sing in places like the Sydney Opera House, the Vatican, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and Halle, Germany, the birthplace of composer George Frideric Handel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cThey\u2019re all really great venues and have a different feel,\u201d she said. \u201cI would say maybe Carnegie feels warmer to me as a venue than does the Sydney Opera House, for example. It\u2019s just such an honor to be able join that long line of great concerts and contribute a bit. So many great performers have been on that stage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Their spring performances usually feature more traditional music and the last time the group went to New York was to sing one of John Rutter\u2019s requiem masses under the English composer\u2019s own baton. Summit Choral Society\u2019s director, Jill Schroeder-Dorn, served as his rehearsal assistant and according to Hill, organizer MidAmerica Productions was so impressed that she was invited back to conduct. June\u2019s concert in New York will be the first time Summit Choral Society will be a headliner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Summit\u2019s choir will perform Ralph Vaughan Williams\u2019 \u201cDona Nobis Pacem\u201d at Carnegie Hall while the rest of the program will feature Kevin T. Padworski\u2019s world premiere of \u201cWanderlust\u201d along with John Rutter\u2019s \u201cMagnificat\u201d and \u201cMass of the Children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Joining them in New York will be the New England Symphonic Ensemble, special soloists hired by MidAmerica, conductors David R. Thye, Padworski and Bruce Southard, and other choirs from around the country such as Schroeder-Dorn\u2019s own students from Colorado Christian University. The special occasion will even be an opportunity for Hill, an alto, to sing with her sister, who lives in their native Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cShe and I both have degrees in music but she and I have never sung together because she\u2019s younger than I am,\u201d Hill said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">If people can\u2019t make it the East Coast, they\u2019ll be relieved to know that local performances of \u201cDona Nobis Pacem\u201d will happen next month on Monday, April 8, and Tuesday, April 9. Instead of MidAmerica performers, the evenings will highlight four different bass and baritone soloists and two women sharing the high soprano solos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The cantata was written in 1936 and is an anti-war piece \u2014 the title translates to \u201cgrant us peace\u201d \u2014 that is based off of Walt Whitman\u2019s poetry and biblical texts. \u201cThis is a very ambitious and difficult piece for our choir,\u201d Hill said. \u201cIt\u2019s all about the heartfelt desire for peace rather than war. It\u2019s a very dramatic piece and it almost sounds cinematic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Given the nature of the material, it is at times a somber performance. The fourth section, titled \u201cDirge for Two Veterans,\u201d is an emotional tune about a father and son dying together in war and being buried in the same grave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cOn Monday nights I have sometimes a hard time sleeping after rehearsal because it just gets into your head so much,\u201d said Hill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Yet, there will be a brief respite with an upbeat, gospel spiritual song called \u201cI Sing Because I\u2019m Happy.\u201d April 9\u2019s concert will also feature a performance from Summit Choral Society\u2019s two scholarship winners, Summer Krueger and Jorie Benson, and end with a small reception.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Shortly after the group touches down in Colorado, they start rehearsal for the August performances of contemporary songs. Though material has yet to be finalized, the choir usually sings a handful of Broadway show tunes such as ones from \u201cThe Lion King\u201d or \u201cJersey Boys.\u201d Then their final event of the year is centered around the holidays. Each winter the Summit Choral Society performs Handle\u2019s \u201cMessiah,\u201d a community sing-along and a joint concert with the Summit Concert band and Summit County Orchestra at the Riverwalk Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Anyone interested in singing is welcome to join the Summit Choral Society. No auditions are required, meaning people can pick from the trio of performances based on preference or county residency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cIt\u2019s intimidating and a lot of people won\u2019t come out and do auditions,\u201d Hill said. \u201cSo you can say to your neighbor \u2018Hey come and sing!\u2019 It\u2019s friendly, it\u2019s fun, it\u2019s challenging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">\u201cWe have some people with advance degrees in music and years of experience, and some people who always wanted to sing but never learned to read music. We try to meet people where they are and move them along.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/explore-summit\/practice-practice-practice-summit-choral-society-heads-to-carnegie-hall-for-third-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Summit Choral Society rehearses on Monday, March 25, at the Christ Lutheran Church in Breckenridge.Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com The Summit Choral Society rehearses on Monday, March 25, at the Christ Lutheran Church in Breckenridge.Hugh Carey \/ hcarey@summitdaily.com Show CaptionsHide Captions Some artists wait their whole lives to go to Carnegie Hall. 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