75th Anniversary Gala Concert
The New Haven Chorale welcomes guest conductors Carolina Flores, Professor of the Choral Department at The Hartt School, NHC assistant conductor Blake Hansen, and Paul Mueller, former music director of the NHC to the culminating event of our 75th Anniversary Season!! This gala concert will include music by three outstanding American composers. Featured will be excerpts from Elaine Hagenberg’s wildly popular Illuminare led by Carolina Flores, Jake Runestad’s Wild Forces and Flower into Kindness conducted by Blake Hansen, and Runestad’s Proud Music of the Storm and Leonard Bernstein’s timeless masterpiece Chichester Psalms under the baton of Ed Bolkovac and featuring counter tenor Benjamin Rauch. In addition, there will be a world premiere of a new choral work by NHC chorister and composer Nathan Scalise, as well as a few surprises involving our audience and former members! Come and celebrate our 75th “Birthday” concert with us–it is an event you will not want to miss!!