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The
Hot Springs Music Festival Chorus,
Laura Rosenberg, director, is a community-based vocal
ensemble whose mission is to perform major choral/orchestral
works with the Hot Springs Music Festival Orchestras
in featured Festival concerts. In a Festival environment
whose musicians come from all over the world, the
Festival Chorus provides a musical link to the residents
of Central Arkansas.
With
the Festival Orchestras, the Festival Chorus has performed
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (twice in the
arrangement by Gustav Mahler), Mass in C and
Choral Fantasy, Berlioz' Symphonie funèbre
et triomphale, Brahms' A German Requiem,
Haydn's The Creation (with Maestro Ernest
Hötzl), Holst's Planets, Key/Rosenberg's
Star-Spangled Banner Suite, Mozart's Requiem
and Die Zauberflöte, Orff's Carmina
Burana, Mahler's Symphonies Nos. 2 &
3, P. D. Q. Bach's The Art of the Ground
Round, Mendelssohn's The First Walpurgis
Night and the incidental music to A Midsummer
Night's Dream, Tchaikovsky's restored Overture
Solenelle 1812, American composer Jerome Moross'
ballet ballad Willie the Weeper (which Naxos
Records recorded for international distribution),
Cole Porter's Aladdin, Johann Strauss, II:
On the Beautiful Blue Danube (original version),
Sir Arthur Sullivan: Hearken Unto Me, My People,
Ernst Toch: Geographical Fugue, Gilbert
& Sullivan: The Mikado (complete original
version), Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms
and Verdi's Messa da Requiem - often with
members of the Brookhaven Chorale; the Dallas Symphony
Chorus and the Plano Civic Chorus.
Festival
Chorus membership is by audition; members must be
able to follow a line of music and match pitch. Current
Chorus membership includes singers from ages 16 to
80, with a broad variety of musical experience. To
schedule an audition appointment, call 501.623.4763.
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