2014-2015 Season

The Hartford Chorale is pleased to announce our performances for the 2014-2015 season.

Porgy and Bess

with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra
Thursday, October 16, through Sunday, October 19, 2014
Belding Theater at The Bushnell
Carolyn Kuan, conductor

Thursday at 7:30 pm
Friday and Saturday at 8:00 pm
Sunday at 3:00 pm

We join the Hartford Symphony Orchestra in its 2014-2015 season opener by performing Robert Russell Bennett’s dynamic arrangement of the big hits from Gershwin’s landmark opera about life on Catfish Row. Also on the program is Tchaikovsky’s 1812, Overture Solenelle, Op. 49. Visit the Hartford Symphony site for more information and tickets. Be sure to use the discount code CHORALE2014 for a 10% discount on your ticket purchase!

Handel’s Messiah

Wednesday, December 10, 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Mortensen Hall at The Bushnell
Richard Coffey, conductor
with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra

The Hartford Chorale will present one performance of the most famous choral work ever written, Handel’s Messiah. Music Director Richard Coffey will conduct the Chorale’s 160 singers with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and four talented soloists.

Handel wrote Messiah in only 24 days. Despite its rapid creation, the work has endured as one of the greatest and best-loved pieces for chorus and orchestra. This holiday performance will feature choruses and arias from the oratorio, including, of course, the rousing Hallelujah Chorus.

Tickets will be on sale in September through The Bushnell’s website. Be sure to use the code “CHORALE2014” to receive a 10% discount!

Great Music of France

March 21, 2015, 4:00 p.m.
Immanuel Congregational Church, Hartford
Richard Coffey, conductor
with guest organist Larry Allen

We bring the energy from our recent Paris tour to this concert by featuring Maurice Durufle’s stunning Requiem and other great selections from Francis Poulenc and Louis Vierne. We will perform at Immanuel Congregational Church with its magnificent organ. With Larry Allen at the organ, this performance is not to be missed! Tickets go on sale soon — watch this site for updates!

Leonard Bernstein, Chichester Psalms

with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra
Thursday, May 7 – Sunday, May 10, 2015
Belding Theater at The Bushnell
Carolyn Kuan, conductor

Thursday at 7:30 pm
Friday and Saturday at 8:00 pm
Sunday at 3:00 pm

As it began, our season ends with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra and four presentations of this energetic work, in the “large-scale” version for full orchestra, often described as “hopeful and life-affirming.”

Visit the Hartford Symphony site for more information and tickets – be sure to use the code CHORALE2014 for a 10% discount on tickets!