Choruses join forces for spring concerts
May 3, 2024 | By Waterbury Roundabout 
The Mad River Chorale performs May 13 at the Waterbury Congregational Church. Courtesy photo
The Mad River Chorale joins forces with South Burlington Community Chorus for an ensemble of 100 voices together singing works of Mozart, Fauré, and Bernstein, May 10 and 12.
The Mad River Valley concert will be held on Sunday, May 12, at 4 p.m. in the Dave Gavett Theater at Green Mountain Valley School in Fayston. The Burlington-area concert will be performed on Friday, May 10, at 7:30 p.m., at the Elley-Long Music Center at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester.
Conductors Mary Jane Austin of the Mad River Chorale and South Burlington Chorus leader Erik Kroncke along with pianist Alison Cerutti. They have assembled an additional orchestra of harp, French horn, and string sextet to accompany the singers for this special event.
The Mozart works (“Te Deum Laudamus” and “Ave Verum Corpus”) and the Fauré works (“Cantique de Jean Racine” and “Requiem”) are especially notable on the program because one was written by each when the composer was a teenager, and one was written by each composer very close to the end of his life.
The program will end with a nod to spring with Leonard Bernstein’s “Make Our Garden Grow” from the operetta “Candide.”
Tickets for the GMVS concert are: $20 for adults, $15 for students and seniors, children are free. Tickets for the Elley-Long concert are: $20 for adults, $5 for students; under 12 are free.
More information and advance tickets are available online at madriverchorale.org or sbchorusvt.org.