Summit Chorale's 2024-2025 Season!
Join us, come sing with us, and enjoy truly memorable music with one of New Jersey’s oldest and most prestigious community chorales!
The Chorale will continue to offer an exciting and robust season and we hope you will be a part of it!
We continue our tradition of commemorating September 11 with our annual Memorial Sing of Mozart's iconic Requiem on September 8, 2024, at Calvary Episcopal Church in Summit. Please bring your scores and sing with us to remember those we lost and those who lost loved ones on that day.
I am proud to be celebrating my 15th year as Music Director of Summit Chorale! A very important anniversary that coincides with this is the 80th Anniversary of the end of conflict in Europe during WWII. Therefore, the artistic goals of Summit Chorale's 2024-25 Season will focus greatly on commemorating those events that defined history and continue to define us today.
Our Fall concert, Creative Resistance and Jazz, will feature music of composers and singers living in France during WWII, focusing on Francis Poulenc's Un soir de neige, a powerful choral work about French Resistance fighters during WWII with words by Paul Elouard. We will also be singing hits by Edith Piaf and the great heroine of WWII, Josephine Baker. This will tie into a focus on Jazz, one of the great controversial musical forms during the period to which we will perform Will Todd's exuberant Mass in Blue.
Our December concert will take place two days before the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. For this, we will sing the popular Christmas songs of the time that people would have heard on the radio. We will reprise Un Soir de Neige, and perform Ralph Vaughan Williams' powerful Dona Nobis Pacem from 1936, a beautiful anthem for peace composed in a hope that a second World War could be avoided.
On the lighter side, we will be bringing some popular music to our community, including our cABBAret (featuring the music of ABBA!) and a performance of Johann Strauss Jr.s Die Fledermaus. Buy your tickets early for these events!
Our powerful Spring concert will feature the finale of Mahler's Symphony No. 2, "The Resurrection", accompanied by a chamber instrumental ensemble. If you have not experienced the power and beauty of this finale, all I can say is it is one of the most exhilarating and uplifting works ever composed. We will also sing two songs of the Holocaust, "Ani Ma'amin" and "I Believe in the Sun" by New Jersey composer Mark Miller. This concert will culminate with Johannes Brahms' universal Ein Deutsches Requiem. This work will memorialize all who were lost after the end of hostilities in the European theater during WWII.
Thank you for your support and love of Summit Chorale. We hope you will join us and support great people making great music in our area!
Sincerely,
Thomas Juneau, DMA Music Director, Summit Chorale
We continue our tradition of commemorating September 11 with our annual Memorial Sing of Mozart's iconic Requiem on September 8, 2024, at Calvary Episcopal Church in Summit. Please bring your scores and sing with us to remember those we lost and those who lost loved ones on that day.
I am proud to be celebrating my 15th year as Music Director of Summit Chorale! A very important anniversary that coincides with this is the 80th Anniversary of the end of conflict in Europe during WWII. Therefore, the artistic goals of Summit Chorale's 2024-25 Season will focus greatly on commemorating those events that defined history and continue to define us today.
Our Fall concert, Creative Resistance and Jazz, will feature music of composers and singers living in France during WWII, focusing on Francis Poulenc's Un soir de neige, a powerful choral work about French Resistance fighters during WWII with words by Paul Elouard. We will also be singing hits by Edith Piaf and the great heroine of WWII, Josephine Baker. This will tie into a focus on Jazz, one of the great controversial musical forms during the period to which we will perform Will Todd's exuberant Mass in Blue.
Our December concert will take place two days before the anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge. For this, we will sing the popular Christmas songs of the time that people would have heard on the radio. We will reprise Un Soir de Neige, and perform Ralph Vaughan Williams' powerful Dona Nobis Pacem from 1936, a beautiful anthem for peace composed in a hope that a second World War could be avoided.
On the lighter side, we will be bringing some popular music to our community, including our cABBAret (featuring the music of ABBA!) and a performance of Johann Strauss Jr.s Die Fledermaus. Buy your tickets early for these events!
Our powerful Spring concert will feature the finale of Mahler's Symphony No. 2, "The Resurrection", accompanied by a chamber instrumental ensemble. If you have not experienced the power and beauty of this finale, all I can say is it is one of the most exhilarating and uplifting works ever composed. We will also sing two songs of the Holocaust, "Ani Ma'amin" and "I Believe in the Sun" by New Jersey composer Mark Miller. This concert will culminate with Johannes Brahms' universal Ein Deutsches Requiem. This work will memorialize all who were lost after the end of hostilities in the European theater during WWII.
Thank you for your support and love of Summit Chorale. We hope you will join us and support great people making great music in our area!
Sincerely,
Thomas Juneau, DMA Music Director, Summit Chorale
Below is Summit Chorale's 2022 Community Sing in remembrance of 9/11, featuring Soprano Veronica Shea, Bass Christian Waugh, and pipe organist Dr. Evan Cogswell
Below is Summit Chorale's spring performance of Carmina Burana, a collaborative effort with Wagner College Choir & Percussion Ensemble.
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