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Bowdoin Chorus
Bowdoin Chorus is a 60-voice auditioned group made up of Bowdoin students, faculty, staff and community members. Rehearsals are Sunday evenings from 7 to 9:30 for all singers and Thursdays from 7 to 8 p.m. for sopranos and altos and Thursdays from 8 to 9 p.m. for tenors and basses. We rehearse in Tillotson (Gibson 101) on the Bowdoin campus. Students take Chorus for credit (Music 273-74).
Concerts
Bowdoin Chorus sings two major on-campus concerts per year accompanied by an orchestra of students, faculty, staff and community players. For the 2007-08 season our major fall semester concert will be in Kanbar Auditorium on December 6 & & and will feature John Rutter's Requiem and "Come, Bring with a Noise" by Richard Francis '92.
Past seasons' sample repertoire of the Bowdoin Chorus
2004-05 - Mendelssohn: Elijah; Handel: Israel in Egypt
2003-04 - Haydn: Lord Nelson Mass; Mozart Requiem.
2002-03 - Bloch: Sacred Service; Thompson: The Peaceable Kingdom; Works by Gorecki, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev and Dvorák.
2001-2002 - Bach Cantata 118; Stravinsky: Mass.
2000-2001 - Brahms: Four Songs, Op. 17; Dvorák: Requiem.
1999-2000 - Works by Tchaikovsky, Arensky, Chesnokov and Shipovalnikov; Fauré: Requiem; Britten: Rejoice in the Lamb.
1998-1999 - Rachmaninoff Songs for Women's Voices, Op. 15; Zimmermann: Psalmkonzert.
1997-1998 - Schubert: Mass in B flat; Orff: Carmina Burana.
1996-1997 - Bernstein: Chichester Psalms; Duruflé: Requiem.
1995-1996 - Ramirez: Misa Criolla; Brahms: Neue Liebeslieder Waltzes.
1994-1995 - Bach: Cantata Bleib bei uns; Persichetti: Celebrations for Chorus and Band.
1993-1994 - Haydn: Te Deum; Rachmaninoff: Choral Concerto; Vaughan Williams: Five Mystical Songs.
1992-1993 - Beethoven: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage; Rachmaninoff: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.
Auditions
Auditions are held at the beginning of each semester, next on January 22 and 24. Please see the sign-up sheet posted in Gibson Hall. Whether you choose to audition alone or in a group you are not expected to bring a prepared solo. You will be asked to sing scales, note and rhythm patterns and an easy canon. The audition is not stressful. Previous vocal training is fine but not required. The first rehearsal of the Chorus will be Thursday, January 22 at 7 p.m. in the Tillotson Room.
Community members are also welcome in the Bowdoin Chorus. Auditions are held at the beginning of every semester. For more information or to schedule a private audition, please call Chorus director, Tony Antolini, at 725 3347 or e-mail him at aantolin@bowdoin.edu.
Anthony F. Antolini
Director of the Bowdoin Chorus
(207) 725-3347
aantolin@bowdoin.edu