The Monmouth Civic Chorus
Dr. Mark Shapiro, Artistic Director
Close to Perfect, Close to Home
The Monmouth Civic Chorus
is acclaimed by audiences and critics alike for presenting fresh, technically polished interpretations of the great choral music, as well as lesser-known choral treasures and new works by living composers. This page lists the performances our audiences have heard, beginning with the most recent performances.
Golden Gate
Saturday, May 31, 2008
Middletown Arts Center, Middletown NJ
The world premiere of a new musical
Golden Gate tells the story of a depression-era family
traveling to the opening of the Golden Gate Bridge on a
journey
of discovery and reawakened hope.
Composer: Richard Pearson Thomas
Book by Joe Calarco
Stage Director: Eric Einhorn
Mozart / Vaughan Williams
Saturday, March 29, 2007
Count Basie Theatre, Red Bank
Mozart Mass in C Minor
with Guest Artists
Sungji Kim, Soprano
Christine Reber, Soprano
Daniel Molkentin, Tenor
Nathan Baer, Bass
Vaughan Williams
Toward the Unknown Region and
Serenade to Music
LisztFest
Saturday, November 17, 2007
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank
A program featuring choral works by Franz Liszt
Psalm 13
Missa Choralis
Worker's Chorus
Plus virtuoso solo works for piano and organ
with guest artists
Karin Gargone, organ
Charles Harris, organ
Vladislav Kovalsky, piano
Sounds Like Shakespeare, Act II
Saturday, June 9, 2007
Two River Theatre, Red Bank
Shakespeare Songs, Book II - Matthew Harris
Three Shakespeare Songs - Gyorgy Orbán
Try a Little Shakespeare - Frumi Cohen
The Wind and the Rain - Leo Schwartz
When Daisies Pied and Violets Blue - William Cowdery
Fancies II - Sven-Eric Johanson
Shall I Compare Thee (Sonnet 18) - Nils Lindberg
Songs and Sonnets - George Shearing
West Side Story (selections) - Leonard Bernstein
Let Freedom Sing
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Count Basie Theatre
The Testament of Freedom - Randall Thompson
Stronger than Darkness - Jorge Martin (World Premiere) *
Symphony #9 Finale - "An Die Freiheit" - Ludwig von Beethoven
* For this performance, MCC was awarded the prestigious
Alice Parker ASCAP / Chorus America Award
"for programming significant recently composed music that expands
the mission of the chorus and challenges the chorus's
audience in a new way."
Sunday, December 17, 2006, 4 p.m.
The Count Basie Theatre
Handel: Messiah
and
Christmas Pops Concert
Four Trumpets and a Chorus
Saturday, November 18, 2006, 8 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank
Quartet for Trumpets - Aras Voskanyan
with trumpets Jason Covey, Micah Killion, Kyle Lane and Brad Siroky
Requiem - Gabriel Fauré
Soprano Jo Ellen Miller and Baritone Christopher Temporelli
Cantata #51 "Jauchzet Gott in Allen Landen"
Soprano Jo Ellen Miller, Trumpet Jason Covey
Messe de Domrémy - Henri Busser
Sounds Like Shakespeare
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Two River Theatre, Red Bank
Scene from Hamlet - Ambroise Thomas
La Mort d'Ophélie - Hector Berlioz
Three Shakespeare Songs - Gyorgy Orbán
Harpsonnets - James Bassi; Anna Reinersman, Harp
selections from Kiss Me Kate (The Taming of the Shrew)
Two Choruses from Macbeth - Verdi
Shakespeare Songs, Book 1 - Matthew Harris
And Now a Word from Our Shakespeare - Joseph Pisano
4 Pianos and a Wedding
Saturday, April 1, 2006
Count Basie Theatre
Belshazzar's Feast - William Walton
Les Noces - Igor Stravinsky
Accompanied by four Steinway Pianos, featuring pianists
Raphael Fusco, Chiu-tze Lin, Vladislav Kovalsky and Richard pearson Thomas
Sunday, December 18, 2005, 4 p.m.
The Count Basie Theatre
Handel: Messiah
and
Christmas Pops Concert
Continental Spirit
Sacred classics by Brahms, Bruckner,
Monteverdi, Palestrina, Rachmaninoff, and more
Saturday, November 19, 2005 at 8 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank
Featuring Organist Karin Gargone
Rule Britannia! Glorious English music
Saturday, June 11, 2005 at 8 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank
Sir Arthur Bliss: The Shield of Faith
Henry Purcell: O Sing Unto the Lord
Handel's Concerto for Organ No. 13
celebrating organist Karin Gargone's 20 years with MCC
Sunday, April 3, 2005 at 3 p.m.
Count Basie Theater
Anton Bruckner, Mass in F Minor
and
Johannes Brahms, Alto Rhapsody
Featuring Barbara Dever, Mezzo-Soprano
Special Guest Star from the Metropolitan Opera
Sunday, December 19, 2004,
4 p.m.
The Count Basie Theatre
Handel: Messiah
and
Christmas Pops Concert
Sparkling sonorities from Czech musical traditions
Saturday, November 20, 2004 at 8 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank
Antonin Dvorak: Te Deum
Leos Janacek: Otcenas (Our Father)
Zdenek Lukas: Requiem
Saturday, June 12, 2004 at 8 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank
Francis Poulenc: Stabat Mater
with organist Karin Gargone
Franz Biebl: Ave Maria
W.A. Mozart: Choruses from Thamos, King of Egypt
Samuel Barber: A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map
Gustav Holst: Rig Veda
with Anna Reinersman, Harp
Saturday, March 20, 2004 at 8 p.m.
Count Basie Theater
Verdi, Requiem
| Featuring: | Daena Mireau, Soprano |
Sunday, December 21, 2003,
4 p.m.
The Count Basie Theatre
Handel: Messiah
and
Christmas Pops Concert
Saturday, November 22, 2003, 8 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank
Filius Prodigus (The Prodigal Son)
by Marc-Antoine Charpentier
featuring Jeffrey Mandelbaum, countertenor
Grace Notes
Selections from our
Newest Recording
Saturday, June 14, 2003, 8 p.m.
Red Bank Regional High School
Francis Poulenc, Sécheresses ("Droughts")
Mark Adamo, No. 10, Supreme Virtue
mystical verses from the Tao Te Ching
Tea for Two: Refreshing treats from
big-band hits, including
Ain't Misbehavin, I Got Rhythm, Somewhere Over the Rainbow,
and Begin the Beguine
Saturday, March 22, 2003, 8 p.m.
The Count Basie Theatre
Beethoven Choral Fantasy
with Pianist Brian Zeger
Beethoven: Mass
in C
Donita Volkwijn, soprano
Janara Kellerman, mezzo-soprano
Garrett Sorenson, tenor
Richard Hobson, baritone
Glorious Scenes from Russian Opera:
Mussorgsky: Coronation Scene from Boris
Godunov
Tchaikovsky: Waltz Scene from Eugene Onegin
Borodin: Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor
Sunday, December 22, 2002,
4 p.m.
The Count Basie Theatre
Handel: Messiah
and
Christmas Pops Concert
Saturday, November 23, 2002, 8 p.m.
First Presbyterian Church, Red Bank
Celebrate Thanksgiving with MCC:
Samuel Felsted, Jonah
Ross Lee Finney, Pilgrim Psalms
Saturday,
June 1, 2002, 8 p.m.
Holmdel High School (Holmdel, NJ)
W. A. Mozart, Seranade for Strings
(A Little
Night Music)
Paul
Moravec Songs of Love and War
Kenneth Wasser, baritone
Kirke Mechem Las Americas Unidas
G.F. Handel Dixit Dominus
The Count Basie Theatre (Red Bank, NJ)
W. A. Mozart, Requiem
Victoria
Atwater, soprano
Charlotte Paulsen, mezzo-soprano
Brian Register, tenor
Richard Hobson, baritone
Gerald Finzi, Intimations of Immortality
Brian Register, tenor
Saturday, December 15, 2001
First
Baptist Church (Freehold, NJ)
Sunday, December 16, 2001
Jersey Shore Arts Center (Ocean Grove,
NJ)
An
MCC Christmas
Holiday favorites for the whole
family
Thursday, November 29, Saturday,
December 1, Sunday December 2, 2001
New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Prudential Hall, Newark, NJ
The
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra with
The Monmouth Civic Chorus
Christmas Pops
A festive concert of holiday favorites
Mark Laycock, NJSO
Associate Conductor
Friday, November 16, 2001
First Presbyterian
Church (Freehold, NJ)
Saturday, November 17, 2001
First Presbyterian Church (Red Bank,
NJ)
Roger Sessions, Mass
Ernst Bloch, Sacred Service (Avodath
Hakodesh)
Joseph Kaiser, baritone
Barbara Thomson, organ
Kenneth Wasser, speaker
Sunday,
September 23, 2001
First Presbyterian Church (Red Bank,
NJ)
Benefit for World Trade Center Relief Efforts
Open
Sing of
Brahms, A German Requiem
Donita Volkwijn, soprano
David Arnold, baritone
Karin Gargone, Organ
Sunday, July 1, 2001
St. Thomas Church (5th Ave & 53rd St,
NY)
Choral Eucharist Service
selections
from
Charles
Gounod, Saint Cecilia Mass
Thursday,
June 28, 2001
Ocean Grove Great Auditorium
Light of Morning
Great Choral Works at the Great Auditorium
Saturday,
June 2, 2001
Holmdel High School (Holmdel, NJ)
Sunday, June 3, 2001
Red Bank Regional HS (Red Bank, NJ)
Paul Siskind, Fill My Dreams, Stir My Soul
World Premiere
Text by Alicia
de los Reyes, Maisa Chiang, Lindsay DiStasio,
Julie Nociolo, Elizabeth Marx, and Nicole Tommarazzo
Carl Orff, Carmina Burana
Irene Choras Tsakiris, soprano
Marshall Coid, countertenor
Matthew Walley, baritone
With the
New Jersey Chamber Singers Childrens' Chorus,
Michael Hudson Director
Karin Gargone and Jeanne Golan, piano
Adrienne Ostrander, percussion
Sunday,
March 25, 2001
The Count Basie
Theatre (Red Bank, NJ)
Felix Mendelssohn, Overture to The
Hebrides,
Opus 26
Sea Chanteys, Arranged
by William C. Cutter
Ralph Vaughan Williams, A Sea Symphony
Michael
Chioldi, baritone
Melanie Galloway, soprano
Saturday, December 9, 2000
First Presbyterian
Church (Freehold, NJ)
Sunday, December 10, 2000
St. Margaret's Church (Spring Lake, NJ)
An
MCC Christmas
Holiday favorites for the whole
family
Saturday, November 18, 2000
First Presbyterian
Church (Red Bank, NJ)
Sunday, November 19, 2000
First Presbyterian Church (Freehold, NJ)
MYSTERE
Albert Roussel, Psalm 80
Gabriel Faure, Cantique de Jean Racine
Charles Gounod, Saint Cecilia Mass
Mukund Marathe, tenor
Anna Reinersman, harp
Karin Gargone, organist, Principal Accompanist
Thursday,
June 29, 2000
Ocean Grove Great Auditorium
Favorite Choral Works
Saturday,
June 3, 2000
First Presbyterian Church (Red Bank, NJ)
CREATOR SPIRIT
George
Frederic Handel, Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne
Samuel Barber, Agnus Dei
Gustav Mahler, Veni, Creator Spiritus
from Symphony of a
Thousand
With the
Monmouth Conservatory of Music Childrens' Opera Chorus
and
Karin Gargone, organist
Saturday,
March 25, 2000
The Count Basie
Theatre (Red Bank, NJ)
Felix Mendelssohn, Elijah
Charles
Robert Stephens, baritone, as Elijah
Katherine Harris, soprano
Charlotte Paulsen, mezzo-soprano
James Archie Worley, tenor
Kristen Billyer, soprano, as the Youth
Sunday, December 5, 1999
First Presbyterian Church (Freehold, NJ)
Sunday, December 5, 1999
St. Joseph's Catholic Church (Keyport, NJ)
An
MCC Christmas
Holiday favorites for the whole
family
Saturday, November 20, 1999
First Presbyterian
Church (Red Bank, NJ)
Sunday, November 21, 1999
First Presbyterian Church (Freehold, NJ)
Rachmaninoff, Vespers (All Night Vigil)
Saturday,
June 05, 1999
First Presbyterian
Church (Red Bank, NJ)
Levine, Three Motets, The Little Red Hen
Brahms, Gesang der Parzen
Gilbert and Sullivan, Selections
from Pirates of Penzance
Trent Johnson, organist
Saturday,
April 17, 1999
The Count Basie
Theatre (Red Bank, NJ)
Tom Cipullo, Voices of the Young (World Premiere)
Rossini, Stabat Mater
Holst, Bacchanale
Catherine
Croall, soprano
Brian Anderson, tenor
Jody Kidwell, mezzo-soprano
Ding Gao, bass-baritone
Saturday,
December 12, 1998
The Count Basie Theatre (Red Bank, NJ)
Monday, December 14, 1999
The Strand Historic Theater (Lakewood,
NJ)
Handel, Messiah
Donita
Volkwijn, soprano
Charles Reid, tenor
Charlotte Paulsen, mezzo-soprano
Kenneth Budka, bass
Saturday,
June 06, 1998
Pollak Auditorium (West Long Branch, NJ)
Enrique
Granados, Goyescas
Georges Bizet, Selections from "Carmen"
April-Joy
Gutierrez, soprano
Timothy Sarris, baritone
Saturday,
March 28, 1998
The Count Basie
Theatre (Red Bank, NJ)
Ulysses Kay, Song of Jeremiah
Johannes Brahms, Ein Deutsches Requiem
Donita
Volkwijn, soprano
Lester Lynch, baritone
Saturday,
December 06, 1997
First Presbyterian Church (Red Bank, NJ)
Sunday, December 07, 1997
St. Joseph Catholic Church (Keyport,
NJ)
John La Montaine, The Nine Lessons of Christmas
Stephen Paulus, Jesu Carols
Conrad Susa, Carols and Lullabies
Ulysses Kay, A Wreath for Waits
Saturday, June 8, 1996 at Tower Hill Church in Red Bank, NJ
Saturday, March 16, 1996 at Count Basie Theater
Verdi, Requiem
Saturday, December 9, 1996 at Tower Hill Church in Red Bank, NJ
Sunday, June 18, 1995 at St. Thomas Church Father's Day Service in New York, NY
Saturday, June 3, 1995 at Tower Hill Church in Red Bank, NJ
May 6,7, 1995 at Count Basie Theatre
Mozart, The Magic Flute
Saturday, March 11, 1995 at Tower Hill Church
Saturday, December 3, 1994 at Count Basie Theater
Saturday, June 4, 1994 at Holmdel High School
April 22-24, 1994 at Count Basie Theatre
Frank Loesser, The Most Happy Fella
Sunday, March 20, 1994 at Count Basie Theater
Saturday, January 22, 1994 at Count Basie Theater
Friday, December 31, 1993 at Sacred Heart Cathedral (Newark)
Saturday, June 5, 1993 at Tower Hill Church
April 23-25, 1993 at Count Basie Theatre
Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, Fiddler on the Roof
Saturday, January 23, 1993 at Count Basie Theater
Saturday, December 5, 1992 at Count Basie Theater