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The Houston Choral Society is a professional-quality chorus dedicated to bringing audiences great choral music to enrich the soul and advance the choral arts. Founded in 1987, this 80-member choir is composed of passionate, experienced singers who perform a breadth of music from the great masters, contemporary composers, American heritage, musical theater, and opera. In addition to its musical vision of performing great orchestral music, the Choral Society also develops programming that allows audience members to connect with the music on an emotional level by taking them on a journey to explore a particular theme or idea through a diversity of style and genre that provokes thought, dazzles, and surprises.
In recent years, the group has presented a concert version of Gilbert & Sullivan’s H.M.S. Pinafore, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem, Johannes Brahms’ Requiem in the original German, and also debuted a commissioned piece by Dr. Adolphus Hailstork called Set Me on a Rock. The Choral Society has joined voices with various choirs in the past and performed at many Houston venues.
Last season, the Choral Society performed an exciting concert of Celtic music. The centerpiece, Letters from Ireland, a collection of authentic letters and folk songs written during the 1700s and 1800s, was researched and arranged for an Irish band by composer/arranger Mark Brymer, who gave advice during the preparation of the work and attended the performance. In June 2011, The Houston Choral Society traveled to the beautiful country of Ireland for our fourth international tour where we visited Galway, Cork, and Dublin. We performed American and Irish music to large audiences at such prestigious venues as the Abbey of St. Francis of Assisi in Galway, St. Fin Barre’s Cathedral in Cork, and St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Dublin.
Always committed to community outreach, The Houston Choral Society has recently partnered with Cy-Hope, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to make life better for the kids in Cypress-Fairbanks ISD. We are now exploring ideas for developing a music initiative for the mission.
