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Bach Chorale Singers
Children and Youth Choirs
45th Season – 2009-2010 Subscription Series and More

BACH CHORALE GOES BROADWAY!
Saturday, October 3, 2009,
Sunday, October 4, 2009
6:00 p.m. dinner/7:30 p.m. show
The Trails Banquet Facility
325 Burnette Road, West Lafayette

The curtain goes up for our Gala Dinner Theater presentation of the “Bach Chorale Goes Broadway!” Music Director William Jon Gray leads the Bach Chorale Singers down one of the musical theater’s most famous streets in a program featuring beloved songs from musicals by the greatest composers and lyricists in theater history, including Rodgers and Hammerstein, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Stephen Sondheim, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Gray and the Bach Chorale Singers will be joined by special guest soloists as well as many of your favorite instrumentalists and performers from the Greater Lafayette area.

In a Sacred Day
Sunday, November 22, 2009
4:00 p.m.
First Baptist Church
411 North Seventh Street, Lafayette

Each day that we have in our lives is a sacred gift to be cherished. The Children and Youth Choirs will sing in celebration of the uniqueness of each passing moment, from morning to midday to evening. With Rollo Dillworth to Benjamin Britten, and Emily Dickinson to Cy Coleman, we will lift up the contribution our humanity has made to this sacred gift.

HANDEL'S “MESSIAH”
Saturday, December 19, 2009
7:30 p.m.
Long Center for the Performing Arts
111 North Sixth Street, Lafayette

“If you missed this electric performance, I’m truly sorry. . . G. F. Handel’s Messiah just got a reprieve from the mundane.” So said Richard Jaeger in the Journal and Courier after our last performances of Handel’s “Messiah.” Hear the greatest choral/orchestral masterpiece in history performed by the Bach Chorale Singers, the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra, and a virtuoso team of guest soloists, played with a vitality and freshness that will make it a positively new experience!

ROCK-A-MY-SOUL
Sunday, February 21, 2010
4:00 p.m.
First Baptist Church
411 North Seventh Street, Lafayette

ROCK-A-MY-SOUL will bring together for the first time the Bach Chorale Singers and the Black Voices of Inspiration for a jubilant program of spirituals and traditional gospel songs. Rooted in the deep and expressive tradition of African American spirituals, this musical celebration of Black History Month promises to be a vital and dynamic musical experience, as well as a highly engaging cultural conversation between two of our community’s most accomplished singing groups.

Bless the Beasts and the Children
Sunday, May 2, 2010
4:00 p.m.
First Baptist Church
411 North Seventh Street, Lafayette

In collaboration with our area animal shelter, Almost Home Humane Society, the Children and Youth Choirs will sing a benefit concert in support of our homeless animal friends. Audience members will be invited to bring a gift for an animal (dog bowl, leash, blanket, dog food, etc.) and animal shelter volunteers will be on hand to educate our community on how we can help our less-fortunate four-legged friends.

MEXICAN BAROQUE
Music of 17th and 18th Century
Sunday, May 23, 2010
4:00 p.m.
St. Boniface Catholic Church
318 North Ninth Street, Lafayette

A vivid program juxtaposing the brilliant sacred music of the Mexican high baroque – sung in Latin with Baroque strings, trumpets, and timpani – with 18th century popular villancicos sung in Spanish set to popular dance rhythms, and accompanied by guitars and percussion. The Mexican villancicos, described as “sacred entertainment for the masses,” have texts that are sometimes playfully humorous and sometimes profoundly spiritual. The alternation of the popular and sacred music of the Mexican high baroque reveals the deep reverence and the joy of living of the Mexican Baroque.

S.I.N.G.S!
Saturday June 26, 1:00 p.m.
West Lafayette High School Auditorium

Our children’s summer choir program, Singing Is Now Going Summer, (S.I.N.G.S!) June 21-26, 2010 will focus on music which will bug you. “Insect Infestation” will be the theme, and the week of learning fun-filled, fly-filled, buggy-filled music will culminate in a concert on Saturday, June 26 at 1:00 p.m. All children entering third grade through twelve years of age are invited to register. Contact the Bach Chorale office for more information at (765) 429-5151.