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December 2015
CONCERT: Welcome Christmas, Minneapolis
Advance ticket sales are closed, but tickets will be available for purchase at the door beginning at 2:30 PM. Swing in the holiday season with VocalEssence and Nils Lindberg’s A Christmas Cantata for chorus and big band. Blending jazz-infused style with traditional melodies, Lindberg’s cantata is an “iridescent medley that invigorates, inspires and swings in equal measure” (allaboutjazz.com). World premieres of two contest-winning carols for choir and trumpet will blow you away, and familiar carols for voices and brass will have…
Find out more »CONCERT: Welcome Christmas, Minneapolis
Advance ticket sales are closed, but tickets will be available for purchase at the door beginning at 2:30 PM. Swing in the holiday season with VocalEssence and Nils Lindberg’s A Christmas Cantata for chorus and big band. Blending jazz-infused style with traditional melodies, Lindberg’s cantata is an “iridescent medley that invigorates, inspires and swings in equal measure” (allaboutjazz.com). World premieres of two contest-winning carols for choir and trumpet will blow you away, and familiar carols for voices and brass will have…
Find out more »CONCERT: Welcome Christmas, Wayzata
Advance ticket sales are closed, but tickets will be available for purchase at the door beginning at 7 PM. Swing in the holiday season with VocalEssence and Nils Lindberg’s A Christmas Cantata for chorus and big band. Blending jazz-infused style with traditional melodies, Lindberg’s cantata is an “iridescent medley that invigorates, inspires and swings in equal measure” (allaboutjazz.com). World premieres of two contest-winning carols for choir and trumpet will blow you away, and familiar carols for voices and brass will…
Find out more »FAMILY CONCERT: Star of Wonder
Come listen, clap, dance, and sing at Star of Wonder, our annual one-hour family Christmas concert. Kids sit up close as members of the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers perform familiar holiday music, including a rousing (if a little goofy) “Twelve Days of Christmas” sing-along. Bring the whole family. Baby bottles and teddy bears welcome! VocalEssence Ensemble Singers Dancers from Folwell School, Performing Arts Magnet Philip Brunelle, conductor A fee of $3.50 per ticket is included in listed prices; all orders will incur…
Find out more »FAMILY CONCERT: Star of Wonder
Come listen, clap, dance, and sing at Star of Wonder, our annual one-hour family Christmas concert. Kids sit up close as members of the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers perform familiar holiday music, including a rousing (if a little goofy) “Twelve Days of Christmas” sing-along. Bring the whole family. Baby bottles and teddy bears welcome! VocalEssence Ensemble Singers Dancers from Folwell School, Performing Arts Magnet Philip Brunelle, conductor A fee of $3.50 per ticket is included in listed prices; all orders will incur…
Find out more »CONCERT: Welcome Christmas, Roseville
Advance ticket sales are closed, but tickets will be available for purchase at the door beginning at 7 PM. Swing in the holiday season with VocalEssence and Nils Lindberg’s A Christmas Cantata for chorus and big band. Blending jazz-infused style with traditional melodies, Lindberg’s cantata is an “iridescent medley that invigorates, inspires and swings in equal measure” (allaboutjazz.com). World premieres of two contest-winning carols for choir and trumpet will blow you away, and familiar carols for voices and brass will…
Find out more »CONCERT: Welcome Christmas, Roseville
Advance ticket sales are closed, but tickets will be available for purchase at the door beginning at 7 PM. Swing in the holiday season with VocalEssence and Nils Lindberg’s A Christmas Cantata for chorus and big band. Blending jazz-infused style with traditional melodies, Lindberg’s cantata is an “iridescent medley that invigorates, inspires and swings in equal measure” (allaboutjazz.com). World premieres of two contest-winning carols for choir and trumpet will blow you away, and familiar carols for voices and brass will…
Find out more »CONCERT: Welcome Christmas, Minneapolis
Advance ticket sales are closed, but tickets will be available for purchase at the door beginning at 2:30 PM. Swing in the holiday season with VocalEssence and Nils Lindberg’s A Christmas Cantata for chorus and big band. Blending jazz-infused style with traditional melodies, Lindberg’s cantata is an “iridescent medley that invigorates, inspires and swings in equal measure” (allaboutjazz.com). World premieres of two contest-winning carols for choir and trumpet will blow you away, and familiar carols for voices and brass will have…
Find out more »January 2016
TOUR: River Songs and Tales with Mark Twain, Moorhead
Supported by an Arts Tour grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, members of the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and Don Shelby as Mark Twain go on the road to Northern Minnesota to celebrate life on the Mississippi River. Through choral music and the spoken word, VocalEssence takes listeners on a musical journey of the past and present—choral masterpieces, favorite folksongs, traditional spirituals, and Americana—all paired with the words of Mark Twain. VocalEssence Ensemble Singers Don Shelby, actor Sara Pajunen, fiddle…
Find out more »February 2016
COMMUNITY SING: David Morrow
Advance registration for this event is now closed. However, there is still plenty of room at the church, so please come and join us! Sing Come We That Love the Lord (arr. Wendell Whalum), I’m Buildin’ Me a Home (arr. Uzee Brown), What Month Was Jesus Born In? (arr. David Morrow), and Three Congregational Folk Spirituals (arr. Wendell Whalum) with Morehouse College Glee Club conductor David Morrow. In addition, hear about the more than 100-year history of the Glee Club…
Find out more »CONCERT: VocalEssence WITNESS: Morehouse College Glee Club
This performance has limited availability. Please keep checking back as tickets may be turned back for resale. Low notes will be high points when the internationally-renowned Morehouse College Glee Club teams up with VocalEssence to celebrate male singing. Founded in Atlanta in 1867, Morehouse College remains the only all-male historically black college in the nation. The Glee Club is known for its musical precision, wide-ranging repertoire and distinguished alumni. VocalEssence and the Glee Club will share the stage with guest…
Find out more »March 2016
CONCERT CONVERSATION: Four Saints in Three Acts
Join us for a concert conversation with Artistic Director Philip Brunelle hosted by Randall Davidson, Executive Producer of the Northern Voice Festival.
Find out more »CONCERT CONVERSATION: Four Saints in Three Acts
Join us for a concert conversation with Artistic Director Philip Brunelle hosted by Randall Davidson, Executive Producer of the Northern Voice Festival.
Find out more »CONCERT: Four Saints in Three Acts
Called “ebullient, grand and unusual” and “a high camp masterpiece” by critics, Four Saints in Three Acts changed American opera when it premiered in 1934. Set in 16th-century Spain, the playfully humorous Four Saints traces the lives of saints on Earth through a witty libretto by Gertrude Stein and a stunning score by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Virgil Thomson. Collaborating with director/choreographer Carl Flink and his award-winning Black Label Movement, VocalEssence takes up the challenge of this path-breaking and distinctly American…
Find out more »CONCERT: Four Saints in Three Acts
Called “ebullient, grand and unusual” and “a high camp masterpiece” by critics, Four Saints in Three Acts changed American opera when it premiered in 1934. Set in 16th-century Spain, the playfully humorous Four Saints traces the lives of saints on Earth through a witty libretto by Gertrude Stein and a stunning score by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Virgil Thomson. Collaborating with director/choreographer Carl Flink and his award-winning Black Label Movement, VocalEssence takes up the challenge of this path-breaking and distinctly American…
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