Please join us for Clinton’s annual Messiah Sing Along! We welcome singers and audience for this informal event. We’ll have scores for you, or bring your own. Park and enter in the rear of St. Paul’s (the church at the foot of the south bridge, and behind Sterling Federal Bank). St. Paul’s recommends masks (but not required), and they have pews marked off for social distancing. Karl Wolf will be our host and director, and Christine Holmer will provide her talents on piano. Join us for a lovely afternoon to kick off the Christmas season!
RiverChor will present their fall concert on Sunday, November 21, at 3:00pm. The concert will explore songs of crisis, including “Think on Me” and Haydn’s “Agnus Dei”; and songs of hope such as “Saints Bound for Heaven”, “I Shall Not Live in Vain”, and “Hope is Like a Feather”.
The concert is free, donations are appreciated.
Program to include:
Saints Bound for Heaven …… arr. Parker/Shaw
Mass in Time of War – Agnus Dei …… Joseph Haydn
O Vos Omnes ….. Tomas Luis de Victoria
Sing, My Child ….. Sarah Quartel
Think On Me …… James Mulholland
I Shall Not Live In Vain ….. Ruth Morris Gray
Time……. Benjamin Britten
Concord ……. Benjamin Britten
Al Shlosha D’varim …. Alan E. Naplan
I Will Be A Child of Peace …. Elaine Haggenburg
Find the Cost of Freedom (Men) ….. Stephen Stills
Hope is the Thing with Feathers (Women) …. Susan LaBarr
Covid protocols: The choir has been rehearsing in masks, and will wear them for the concert. We will have full lyrics available. Zion Lutheran recommends masks as per CDC for the audience, however they are not required. Seating is general admission, you are welcome to sit as close or far from others as you are comfortable.
Mark your calendar, as RiverChor is in rehearsals and plan to present their Fall Concert on Sunday, November 21, 2021 at 3:00pm at Zion Lutheran Church in Clinton, Iowa.
While circumstances are preventing us from having a live performance of Messiah this year (which would have been the 89th year in our local tradition), we’d like to invite you to sing along to our performance in 2015.
We’d love to hear your stories about Messiah past….join the conversation on Facebook. We wish you a Merry Christmas, and hope that 2021 will bring opportunities to sing once again!
2020 has really been a challenge all around to the performing arts, and RiverChor is no exception…..we will be “virtual” this fall. If you have sung with us before and are not on the current email list, drop us a line, we’d love to have you join us for social Zooms and/or a virtual performance.
Messiah is tentative at the moment, we’ll post information here when we know more.
Stay safe and well, and we hope to be singing for you again in 2021!
Due to the nature of singing and current events, RiverChor is postponing our concert. We will resume in the fall to bring you ‘With Hope, We Shall Rise’.
Tonight, RiverChor gathers together to work on music for our April 19th concert. While yet to be officially titled, the concert will explore themes of crisis and hope. Selections will include:
Saints Bound for Heaven …… arr. Parker/Shaw
Mass in Time of War – Agnus Dei …… Joseph Haydn
O Vos Omnes ….. Tomas Luis de Victoria
Sing, My Child ….. Sarah Quartel
Prayer of the Children …. arr. Andrea Clouse
Think On Me …… James Mulholland
I Shall Not Live In Vain ….. Ruth Morris Gray
Concord ……. Benjamin Britten
Al Shlosha D’varim …. Alan E. Naplan
I Will Be A Child of Peace …. Elaine Haggenburg
Find the Cost of Freedom (Men) ….. Stephen Stills
Hope is the Thing with Feathers (Women) …. Susan LaBarr
Mark your calendars for Sunday, April 19th, at 3:00 pm for our spring concert at Zion Lutheran Church in Clinton. Want to sing? Drop us a line.
Please join us this Saturday, December 14, at 7:30 in Vernon Cook Theater at Clinton High School for a wonderfully festive collaboration between the Clinton Symphony Orchestra and RiverChor. Concert and ticket information are available at https://ClintonSymphony.org .
Program
A Most Wonderful Christmas (medley); arr. Robert Sheldon
Skater’s Waltz; Émile Waldteufel
Festive Sounds of Hanukkah (medley); arr. Bill Holcombe
Messiah And the Glory * For Unto Us * Hallelujah!; George Frideric Handel With RiverChor
Fanfare to La Péri ; Paul Dukas
The Nutcracker Marche * Arabe * Waltz of the Flowers * Trepak; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
How Great Our Joy; arr. John Rutter With RiverChor
Lua, Lua, Lua ; Esther Scliar RiverChor
Farandole from L’Arlesienne Suite No. 2.; Georges Bizet
Pizzicato Polka; Johann Strauss, Jr. and Josef Strauss
Christmas Memories; Rosephanye Powell With RiverChor
A Christmas Festival; LeRoy Anderson Carol Sing-along with audience and RiverChor
You are invited to join a long standing Clinton tradition, the 88th annual singing of the Messiah. This year is the Sing-Along, which is an informal event. If you’ve ever wanted to try to sing Handel’s work, or enjoy a unique opportunity to sit inside a choir, please join us on Sunday, December 1, at 3:00 pm at Zion Lutheran Church in Clinton, please enter via the East door to the sanctuary.
You are welcome to bring your own copy of the score, or borrow one of ours. We will sing all the choruses from Part 1, take a few requests for choruses from Parts II and III, then finish with Hallelujah. The event is directed by Chris Marple, our pianist is Christine Holmer.
The Messiah Sing-Along is free. Come as you are, bring a friend or two, and plan to have a joyous time singing!
