Overview: 2010-2011 Season

It is a delight to announce the 2010-2011 season for Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir.  We have a tremendous year of concerts and events that begin in early November with Beethoven’s C major Mass in collaboration with the Newburgh Symphony Orchestra and the ever-popular A Service of Lessons and Carols at Vassar College in December.  In January, we perform stunning music of Renaissance masters, Palestrina and Victoria, as well as new works by British composers Bob Chilcott and Tarik O’Regan.  We bring the season to a close by highlighting organist James Fitzwilliam on the Gress-Miles organ at Vassar College performing Laudes Organi by Zoltan Kodaly, and Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb and Missa Brevis in D.
We hope you will join the Cappella Festiva Chamber Choir for this exciting year of incredible music

Christine R. Howlett, Artistic Director

PERFORMANCES:

BEETHOVEN:  C MAJOR MASS
Saturday, November 6, 2010 Newburgh Free Academy, 8:00 PM
Sunday, November 7, 2010 Eisenhower Ballroom, 3:00 PM
*Additional rehearsals

A SERVICE OF LESSONS AND CAROLS
Sunday, December 5, 2010 Vassar College Chapel 7:00 PM

MUSICAL TREASURES:  A selection of Renaissance and contemporary choral works by Palestrina, Victoria, Pitoni, Bob Chilcott and Tarik O’Regan 
Sat., Jan. 13, 2011 Lyall Federated Church, Millbrook 7:30 PM
Sun., Jan. 14, 2011 Vassar College Chapel, Poughkeepsie 2:00 PM
           

KODALY: LAUDES ORGANI  
BRITTEN:  MISSA BREVIS IN D and
REJOICE IN THE LAMB
Featuring the Cappella Festiva Chamber and Treble Choirs
Our season finale brings together the Cappella Festiva Chamber and Treble Choir in a program of music for chorus and organ.  Highlighting organist James Fitzwilliam on the Gress-Miles organ at Vassar College, the Chamber Choir will perform the rarely programmed Laudes Organi by Zoltan Kodaly, a piece commissioned for the American Guild of Organists which was Kodaly’s final work before his death.   Also on the program is Britten’s Rejoice in the Lamb. The Cappella Festiva Chamber Women and the Treble Choir will join together to perform Britten’s sublime Missa Brevis in D, as well as other selections. 

Sunday, May 15, 2011 Vassar College Chapel 2:00 PM

AUDITIONS FOR CAPPELLA FESTIVA
CHAMBER CHOIR (Adults):

Wednesday September 8, Vassar College Chape
8:00-10:00PM or by appointment

For more information or to set up an audition, please call 845-853-7765 or email info@cappellafestiva.org.  The audition will consist of some vocalizing and sight-reading.  (You may bring a prepared piece with accompaniment, but it is not required.) 

Rehearsals:  Mondays 7:30-10:00 PM

Location: Vassar College Chapel Basement

First Rehearsal:  Monday September 13, 7:30 PM

Cappella Festiva, PO Box 2111, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601