The Central Virginia Masterworks Chorale will perform LOVE for its Virginia premiere. The Chorale participated in a consortium that commissioned Dr. William Payn to compose this new work. Dr. Payn is the director and conductor of Susquehanna Valley Chorale and Orchestra, which performed LOVE for its national premiere in 2022. He recently retired from his position as Professor of Music at Bucknell University, where he taught and directed the Rooke Chapel Choir, Rooke Chapel Ringers, and Bucknell Concert Chorale. A composer of works for chorus and handbells, he remains active as a guest conductor and clinician nationwide and abroad.

LOVE highlights lyrics from poems by such notables as Emily Dickinson, e e cummings, Langston Hughes, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, as well as works by several living poets. The ten-movement work is scored for chorus, soprano and baritone soloists, and string orchestra.

Ryan Tibbetts will conducted the singers and orchestra. Come join us!

Tickets now on sale.

(sources: Wikipedia and Elaine Hagenberg's website: https://www.elainehagenberg.com/illuminare)

Illustration from LOVE concert flyer; same information as Ticket link above.

 

 

Consider joining us!

Do you enjoy singing with a group, mastering challenging choral works, improving your singing talent - and live in the Central Virginia area?

Sopranos, altos, tenors, and basses are all welcome. Although formal musical training is not required, previous experience with choral singing is encouraged. Simple auditions with the director are for vocal placement within the group.

For safety's sake, the Chorale is recommending (but not requiring) that all singers have COVID-19 vaccinations and boosters if medically possible, and please note that while masks are not currently required by our hosts, you are welcome to mask during rehearsals and concerts if you wish. 

If you are interested in joining us for Spring 2024, the Virginia premiere of LOVE by Bill Payn, don't hesitate to contact us. Rehearsals begin Monday, January 15th, 2024, at 7:00 p.m. at Duncan Memorial United Methodist Church in Ashland, VA.

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Conductor Ryan J. Tibbetts began his tenure as the fourth Artistic Director and Conductor of the Central Virginia Masterworks Chorale in August 2015. Since 2015, he has also served as the Artistic Director of the Richmond Concert Chorale, and in 2017 he became Director of Music at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Goochland.

Accompanist Daniel Stipe is equally at home as a solo recitalist, collaborator and arranger on both the piano and the organ. His large and varied concert repertory, with special focus on works of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, continues to delight audiences nationwide.

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