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Current NewsNMSO CHORUS INVITED TO VAIL FESTIVAL FOR BOTH 2009 AND 2010 In what has become a regular yet truly significant honor, the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra Chorus, directed by Roger Melone, has been invited to return to the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival in Vail, Colo. to perform in both 2009 and 2010. The programs of the future performances, as well as which of the festival’s three resident orchestras the Chorus will perform with, will be announced as details are finalized. In its third summer performance there, the Chorus took the stage July 14 with the world-famous Philadelphia Orchestra to perform Orff’s Carmina Burana, receiving an eight-minute standing ovation complete with curtain calls. Previously, they joined Rossen Milanov and the Philadelphia Orchestra in July 2007 for a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. The Chorus performed works by Mozart at the 2006 Vail festival with the Rochester (N.Y.) Philharmonic and its music director, Christopher Seaman. Along with the orchestras from Philadelphia and Rochester, the New York Philharmonic is the third resident orchestra at the Vail festival. Each time the NMSO performs a choral work, it joins forces with the nationally acclaimed NMSO Chorus. Though a volunteer organization, all members of the Chorus are accomplished musicians. Among its ninety volunteer singers, many are professional musicians working in music-related fields, hold degrees in music or teach music privately. A majority have studied voice, and many also have had instrumental training. They are also bound by a common passion for music, and some travel weekly from Edgewood, Santa Fe and Socorro and other New Mexico communities to sing in the Chorus. The Chorus was founded in 1972, and for the past 26 years, Melone has been its director, developing the chorus and building its outstanding national reputation. For more about the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, visit their website at vailmusicfestival.org. |
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