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2012 Choral Festival – The Berlioz Requiem - Revisited The mission the Finger Lakes Choral Festival is to bring great
music for chorus and orchestra each summer to as many people as possible. In keeping with this objective, the 2012 Choral
Festival will travel to a city that literally bursts with choral activity, San Francisco, to perform a spectacle of epic proportions,
the Berlioz Requiem In a unique partnership of 350 singers and
musicians from New York and San Francisco, this sonic treat will take
place at Davies Symphony Hall on August 5, 2012. An additional performance will take place at Hochstein
Performance Hall in Rochester on Sunday, July 29, 2012. All singers with prior choral experience are invited to join
the chorus for for either or both performances. See the Registration Information page for details.
Listen to the blazing conclusion
of the Dies Irae from the Berlioz Requiem
Information on how to join
the chorus
The Choral Festival makes the New York Times. Click the following link to read the article and hear the NY Times Online performance of Mozart's Ave Verum from our 2006 Choral Festival.
The Mission of the Finger Lakes Choral Festival The
Finger Lakes Choral Festival, now in its ninth season, brings together singers each summer from more than 50 Greater Rochester
and Finger Lakes area communities, as well as visitors from other states and countries. The Choral Festival has performed
before over 25,000 concert-goers, with the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra at the 5000 seat CMAC Performing Arts Center in
Canandaigua, with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra at Chautauqua Institution's Historic Amphitheater, and at Hochstein
Performance Hall in Rochester. |
