Here's a Sweetheart Offer for Friends of the GMChorale

This Valentine's Day, give the gift of music!

Surprise your sweetheart, parent, friend, young person, or neighbor with tickets to the GMChorale's concert of choral and orchestral classics on Sunday, April 26. Or treat yourself to an afternoon of beautiful music!

Tickets are on sale now, and we are offering a special SWEETHEART deal until midnight on Valentine's Day, February 14. Use or mention the SWEETHEART code when you order to take $5 off each ticket.

We offer several easy ways to purchase tickets.

To order online (Fast, easy, secure, 24/7)

1 - Click HERE to visit the GMChorale's secure online ticket sales site for this event.

2 - Click on the green TICKETS button, and when the new window opens up, click on "Enter Promo Code," then type in SWEETHEART (not case-sensitive) and click "Apply," and the prices will refresh to show the $5 discount.

3 - Select up to 10 single tickets in any price range and proceed to checkout.

You will receive your tickets in your email as PDF attachments. You may print these and bring them to the concert, or simply show the e-tickets on your mobile device when you arrive at the concert.

To order by phone, email, or postal mail

To order by phone, leave a message at 860-316-4854, and we'll call you back to take your order. Have your credit card and email address ready, and be sure to mention the SWEETHEART discount when you call by February 14.

To order by postal mail or email, click HERE to open a PDF order form, which includes complete information on how to place your order. Write SWEETHEART on the form, and deduct $5 from any single tickets you order by February 14.

All orders must be pre-paid. We can accept online, phone, and emailed orders with credit card information; postal orders must be accompanied by check or credit card information.

Scroll down to read more about this concert. And don't wait to take advantage of this special sweetheart deal -- it expires at midnight on February 14.

If you have questions or need assistance with any ticket order, just reply to this email, leave a message at 860-316-4854, or write to gmcmedia@gmchorale.org.

The SWEETHEART discount is in effect until midnight, February 14, 2020, for sales of single tickets for the GMChorale's April 26 concert. May not be combined with other offers or used for group sales or at-the-door tickets.

On Sunday, April 26, 2020, the GMChorale presents With Joy of Heart and Gladness, a program of classic music for voices and string orchestra, with fresh interpretations of choral masterworks, including performances of Bach’s cantata Christ lag in todesbanden (BWV 4) and motet “Lobet den Herrn” (BWV 230), Schubert’s Mass in G Major (D.167), and the exquisite “Laudate Dominum” from Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore (K.339).

Maestro D’Eugenio will also lead the orchestra, comprising some of the finest professional string players in the region, in the sprightly finale of Handel’s Concerto Grosso in D Major (HWV 323/V), the complete Divertimento in D Major (K.136/125a) of Mozart, and the poignant Intermezzo from Mascagni’s opera Cavalleria Rusticana.

The April 26 program will also include a rare performance of a lesser-known choral work by Mozart, the “Sancta Maria, mater Dei,” K.273.

Maestro D'Eugenio: “As the GMChorale has seen in recent years at our well-attended, highly-praised performances of Carissimi’s oratorio Jepthe and Bruckner’s Mass in E Minor, music-lovers in the region are eager to hear choral music that may have fallen a bit outside the mainstream but is nonetheless of the highest artistic merit. That certainly pertains to Mozart’s ‘Sancta Maria’ — it’s just lovely, but is often pushed to the sidelines by his more frequently-performed music. We are looking forward to bringing this lovely piece back into the limelight where it can be heard and enjoyed.”

The Elm City Girls’ Chorus and the Saecula Singers of New Haven (Tom Brand and Rebecca Rosenbaum, Music Directors) will bring their fresh voices to this program of timeless classics.

With Joy of Heart and Gladness

Sunday
April 26, 2020
4:00PM

Pre-concert talk 3:15pm
Doors open at 3:00pm

Middletown High School
Santo Fragilio
Performing Arts Center
200 La Rosa Lane
Middletown, CT

Tickets are on sale now:
$9-$40 in advance
$10-$45 at the door
Click HERE for tickets

Use promo code SWEETHEART before midnight on February 14 to take $5 off each single ticket.

To order by phone, leave a message at 860-316-4854.

To order by postal mail, or email, download an order form HERE.

Tickets will also be available at the door beginning at 3:00 pm.

Just two concerts left in Alchemy's Soirées Musicales series!

Led by founding Artistic Director Joseph D’Eugenio, the 24-voice Alchemy ensemble presents an annual series of concerts across the state.

In the 2019-2020 season, Alchemy is presenting Soirées Musicales, an hour-long program that showcases the versatility of this ensemble in performances of accompanied and a capella choral music. The concert recalls the elegance of musical gatherings in earlier days with chamber music that was meant to be enjoyed in intimate social settings; we hope you will be part of this special experience.

The featured work is the Neue Liebeslieder waltzes by Johannes Brahms, virtuosic settings of love poems for solo voices, chorus, and piano four hands (that is, two pianists playing one piano). The GMChorale’s long-time pianist Allan Conway will be joined at the keyboard by Joseph D’Eugenio, and members of Alchemy will perform the vocal solos.

The program also includes evocative choral selections by Giacchino Rossini, Randall Thompson, Edward Elgar, and others.

Only two performances remain!

Sunday, March 1, 2020
4:00 pm
Bethany Lutheran Church
50 Court Street
Cromwell, CT
Free-will donation
A reception follows the concert

Saturday, March 21, 2020
8:00 pm
Asylum Hill
Congregational Church
814 Asylum Avenue
Hartford CT
Tickets: $20 at THIS LINK and at the door.

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The GMChorale is partially funded by generous grants from the following: the Middletown Commission On The Arts; The Marjorie Jolidon Fund of the Greater Hartford Chapter, American Guild of Organists; and Connecticut’s Department of Economic and Community Development, Connecticut Office of the Arts which receives support from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.