GMChorale will present Brahm’s “Liebeslieder Waltzes,” as well as contemporary pieces by James Mulholland, Morten Lauridsen and Shawn Kirchner, at the Santo Fragilio Performing Arts Center at Middletown High School on Sunday, November 9, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. Each composer selected poetry that found its way into the music featured in GMChorale’s mainstage concert, “Love, Waltzes and Luminous Skies.” The selected pieces are connected in a variety of ways: musically, texturally, stylistically and thematically.

When Johannes Brahms composed his Liebeslieder Waltzes (Opus 52 and Opus 65), he turned for inspiration to Georg Friedrich Daumer’s Polydora, a collection of folksongs exploring the varied aspects of romantic love – longing, flirtation, devotion, tenderness, and sorrow, to name a few. Brahms introduces us to 32 of these poems and ends with a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that sums up the pain and joy of love.

Five short thematically connected pieces have been added to the program. The Elm City Girls’ Choir will be singing “Dirait-on,” Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem set to music by Morten Lauridsen. GMChorale continues with a James Mulholland arrangement from his composition “Four Robert Burns Ballads.” “My love is like a red, red rose,” the first line of a ballad by the 18th Century poet Robert Burns, speaks of love and steadfast devotion. James Agee, a mid-20th Century screenwriter, film critic, and author, whose poem “Sure on this Shining Night” was set to music by Morten Lauridsen, offers an assurance of kindness in the luminous skies of night. For Shawn Kirschner’s arrangement of “Bright Morning Stars,” a tribute to familial love, he turns to a traditional Appalachian song. Finally, a hymn text by John Adam Granade (1763-1807), a preacher active in the Great Revival in the West two centuries ago, is set to new music in Shawn Kirchner’s “Sweet Rivers,” which extols a redeeming love.

Join us on Sunday, November 9, 2025, for this celebration of “Love, Waltzes and Luminous Skies,” under the baton of Artistic Director Joseph D’Eugenio. The Elm City Girls’ Choir will join GMChorale on stage, with Eric Trudel and Blake Hansen on piano. The concert begins at 4:00pm, but plan to arrive early to hear a 3:00pm lecture by Neely Bruce, which is included in the ticket price. Tickets are available online at www.gmchorale.org

Venue: 4:00 pm
Middletown High School
200 LaRosa Lane
Middletown, CT

Tickets: $25-$49
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Sunday, November 9, 2025

Ridgefield Chorale

In All Things Love

In All Things Love will celebrate song and love as a force through which we can affect change, within ourselves and universally. Classical in nature, the programming reflects the early years of the Ch

The music ranges from the beautiful chant Ubi Caritas (“Where there is charity and love, God is there. From a sincere heart, let us love on another.”) to the joyful Take This Gift (‘Take this gift, it’s not mine to keep. Share it far so all may know. Let our love for singing grow.”). We will explore song as a starting point to true human connection and harmony, both actual and metaphorical.

Other songs include: In All Things Love, Song for Justice, Let Them Hear You, Let There Be Peace on Earth, and a reprise of Elaine Hagenberg’s Illuminare, which we performed at our fall 2023 concert.

Accompanied by The Ridgefield Chorale’s 15-piece orchestra.

Venue: 4 PM Jesse Lee Church

207 Main St, Ridgefield, CT 06877

Tickets: Buy your tickets online at : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/in-all-things-love-tickets-1677296652439

Adults: $25.75 Seniors/Students: $20.60

Contact: info@ridgefieldchorale.com

Website: www.ridgefieldchorale.org

Friday, November 21, 2025

Greater New Haven Community Chorus

GLORY: music of justice, equity & splendor

Featuring Vivaldi’s Gloria RV 589 as well as the music of Ariel Ramirez, selections from the African American Spiritual tradition, John Legend’s “Glory” from the 2014 film Selma, and more!

Venue: Battell Chapel
400 College St.
New Haven, CT 06519

Tickets: https://www.tix.com/ticket-sales/GNHCC1/7344/event/1450444
$10-$20
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Contact: https://www.gnhcc.org

Website: www.gnhcc.org

Sunday, November 23, 2025

Connecticut Master Chorale

25th Annual Holiday Prelude Concert

Tina Johns Heidrich, Conductor

Theme is “Season of Joy!”

The program features a diverse collection of Holiday music that includes selections for Winter, Advent and Hanukkah, the New Year, festive, joyous carols, gospel and more!

With the Connecticut Master Chorale Holiday Brass

'Sing Joy' - arr. Jay Alhouse
'Angels We Have Heard of High ' - arr. Dan Forrest
'On Jordan’s Bank the Baptist’s Cry" - arr. Michael Culloton
"Love’s Pure Light" - Elaine Hagenberg
"One Sweet Little Baby" - arr. Shawn Kirchner
"Wisemen of the World" - arr. Derek J. Myler
"Hanukkah, Season of Joy!" - Mark Weston
"Glorious Christmas Refrains" - arr. Tom Fettke
"Glad Tidings of Joy" - Mark Hayes
"Shout for Joy!" - André Thomas
"Song for a Winter’s Night" - Gordon Lightfoot
"Umoja Tunaimba' - Victor Johnson
"The Star" - Mariah Carey
"We Toast the Days" - Linda Kachelmeier
"Must Be Santa'" - arr. Allen Hill
"This Time of Year" - arr. Mark Hayes
"They Had Joy!" - arr. Tom Fettke

Venue: 3:00pm
First Congregational Church
164 Deer Hill Ave., Danbury, CT

Tickets: $25 ($20 if purchased in advance)
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Sunday, November 30, 2025

Glastonbury Chorus

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