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-8 posts tagged "chorale"
Devin Humphreys | Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Often when I was an undergraduate at Michigan State, and occasionally nowadays here at Notre Dame, friends of mine and I have gathered around a table, and someone has suggested that we play a round of the card game known as Chairman Mao. I won’t spoil the game for those who have never played (half
Annemarie Foy | Wednesday, September 1, 2021
After over a year disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, Notre Dame’s many choirs are excited to get back to normal performances. To learn more about how some of the choirs on campus dealt with the pandemic and what they’re planning for the new year, the Observer spoke with Frank Gomulka, president of the Notre Dame
Isabella Volmert | Thursday, September 24, 2020
Over 500 student vocalists and musicians are about to be “Rock’n the House that Rockne built,” which is the slogan for the first ever Notre Dame Music Festival to be held Thursday night in Notre Dame Stadium. Twelve campus music groups will perform from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Gate E opens at 6:30 p.m
Alexandra Muck | Wednesday, January 15, 2020
While many students spent the last week of break at home or traveling, members of Notre Dame Chorale and the Undertones went on tour. Chorale took 55 members for a week-long tour in California, said senior Caiti Crahan, the group’s president. Crahan said the group, which consists of 65 to 70 members, takes a domestic
Ciara Hopkinson | Friday, December 6, 2019
For nearly 30 years, the Notre Dame Chorale has ushered in the holiday season with their performance of George Frideric Handel’s “Messiah,” a wildly popular Baroque masterpiece that tells the story of Christianity in three parts. Music professor Alexander Blachly, director of the Chorale, described the piece as “indestructible.” “That’s the word that people usually
Andrew Cameron | Thursday, January 18, 2018
The Notre Dame Chorale went on an eight-day domestic tour over winter break, performing seven concerts throughout Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Connecticut. Of the club’s 65 members, 52 singers went on the tour, senior and tour commissioner Jennifer Richardson said. She also said the concerts featured a wide range of musical genres — from renaissance
Catherine Owers | Thursday, December 3, 2015
The Notre Dame Chorale’s annual performance of Handel’s “Messiah” will take place at Leighton Hall in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center on Friday and Saturday evenings at 8 p.m. Tickets are $3 for students, $2 if they are bought from Chorale members. “One of the reasons I decided to try out for Chorale is because
Olivia Jackson | Wednesday, November 18, 2015
The Saint Mary’s Women’s Choir and the Saint Mary’s Collegiate Choirs will perform their fall concert with Bellacapella on Wednesday in O’Laughlin Auditorium. Conductor Nancy Menk said the Women’s Choir will be singing the same songs they plan to take to the American Choral Directors Association Conference in Chicago this coming February. “One of our pieces, a setting