Our Season

 The Williamsburg Choral Guild’s 2023-24 Season

We welcome you to the Guild’s 48th season with three performances you are sure to enjoy.

Overture and Finale

October 15, 2023 at 4 p.m. 

Williamsburg Presbyterian Church
215 Richmond Road, Williamsburg

This concert will feature a variety of choral finales or “closers” from some of the Choral Guild’s favorite composers including Bach, Handel, Gjeilo, and Whitacre. The concert will also preview the rest of the 2023-24 season with works by Saint-Saëns and Orff. Sometimes you need to have your dessert first.

 Noel

December 10, 2023 at 4 p.m.

Williamsburg Presbyterian Church
215 Richmond Road, Williamsburg

Since Camille Saint-Saëns composed the Oratorio de Noël in just ten days in 1858, it has remained one of his most popular works, and the final movement,Tollite Hostias, is a choral classic in its own right. Alongside his other well-known compositions, Carnival of the Animals and Danse Macabre, Saint-Saëns creates vivid musical dramas while retaining clarity of melody and orchestration. This concert will complement the oratorio with several short pieces.

O Fortuna

April 21, 2024 at 4 p.m.

Concert Hall, Music Arts Center
The College of William & Mary
551 Jamestown Road, Williamsburg

Program: Carmina Burana by Carl Orff
(arranged for two pianos and percussion)
One of the most performed musical works of the 20th century, Carmina Burana stands as a true epic. Fate, Love, Time, Joy, Despair, Obsession: this choral masterwork touches on every aspect of the human condition. Beginning and ending with O Fortuna, a song to fate personified as Empress of the World, the work contains everything from tender love songs to wild celebration.

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