The Wheatland Chorale is now in its 22nd season. In addition to our regular set of concerts, December and April, we have a number of other events in the works. Please check back for updates in the coming months!

Upcoming Events

Regular Glad Tidings! Concerts

Featuring Vivaldi's Gloria

• Friday, December 12, 2008, 8 PM
  Neffsville Mennonite Church
  2371 Lititz Pike
  Lancaster, PA 17601
• Saturday, December 13, 2008, 8 PM
  Atonement Lutheran Church [Map] [Church home page]
  5 Wyomissing Blvd.
  Wyomissing, PA 19610-2081
• Sunday, December 14, 2008, 4 PM
  First Presbyterian Church
  140 East Orange St.
  Lancaster, PA

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Regular Spring Concerts

Featuring the Mozart Requiem

• Friday, April 24, 2009, 8 PM
  Neffsville Mennonite Church
  2371 Lititz Pike
  Lancaster, PA 17601
• Saturday, April 25, 2009, 8 PM
  Atonement Lutheran Church [Map] [Church home page]
  5 Wyomissing Blvd.
  Wyomissing, PA 19610-2081
• Sunday, April 26, 2009, 4 PM
  First Presbyterian Church
  140 East Orange St.
  Lancaster, PA

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Other Upcoming Events

Back into Windsor Forest

Sunday, September 28, 4:00

We will revel in Vaughan Williams' setting of the words of Shakespeare and others when we sing In Windsor Forest as we did in the Spring. This will be our third appearance at United Church of Christ at Valley Forge, 45 Walker Road, Wayne, PA. The concert is on Sunday, September 28, 2008, at 4:00 pm, in the UCC's "Music of Note" concert series. The full repertoire is at right (Spring 2008). Tickets, available at the door, will be $15 for adults and $7 for children under 12. The web site at the UCC posts a mapquest map and directions to the church here: http://www.uccvf.org/directions.asp.

Sunday, October 12, 4:00

We will sing the same repertoire at Alvernia College, Francis Hall Auditorium, in Reading, PA, on Sunday, October 12, 2008, at 4:00 pm. The full repertoire is at right (Spring 2008). Directions to Alvernia can be found here: http://www.alvernia.edu/about/location.htm.

Pennsylvania Academy of Music Collaboration

Sunday, November 23, 3:00

We will join forces in November (11/20-11/23) with the children and youth of the Pennsylvania Academy of Music for a set of open workshops and the North American premier of a work by British composer Bob Chilcott. Admission to the concert on Sunday, November 23, at 3:00 pm is complimentary, though tickets are necessary; contact the Pennsylvania Academy of Music for details (717-399-9733). The Academy is located at 43 North Prince Street, Lancaster, PA.

Season's Greetings 2008 at Longwood

Saturday, December 20, 7:00 and 8:00

Longwood Gardens, in Kennett Square, PA, will welcome the Wheatland Chorale on Saturday, December 20, at 7:00 and 8:00 pm. The Chorale enjoys singing for audiences in the holiday spirit at Longwood.

A Fresh Spring with Berks Classical Children’s Chorus (BCCC)

Sunday, May 3, 2009, 7:00

The Wheatland Chorale was pleased to be able to perform with the Berks Classical Children’s Chorus (BCCC) a few years ago. This season we are delighted to be able to schedule another event with them as part of their spring concert on Sunday, May 3, 2009, at Atonement Lutheran Church [Map] [Church home page], 5 Wyomissing Blvd., Wyomissing, PA.

Events Not Too Long Past

Storming the Barn

The Wheatland Chorale took advantage of an opportunity to combine two favorite American pastimes, choral singing and baseball, when we sang our National Anthem at the Barnstormer's Game in Lancaster's Clipper Stadium, Saturday, September 23, 2006. Our very own Doug Weaver arranged the anthem for this performance.

Vierne Redux

The Wheatland Chorale revisited the French repertoire that we sang in the Spring of 2006, including Vierne's Requiem and selections by Debussy and Poulenc, when we traveled to United Church of Christ at Valley Forge, 45 Walker Road, Wayne, PA, on Sunday, September 24, 2006, at 4:00 pm, to sing in the UCC's "Music of Note" concert series.

Season's Greetings at Longwood

Longwood Gardens, in Kennett Square, PA, welcomed the Wheatland Chorale on Saturday, December 16, 2006, at 7:00 and 8:00 pm. The Chorale offered music for the holiday season in this gorgeous garden setting. Longwood marked its Centennial this year.

Flying Buttresses

The Wheatland Chorale provided half an hour of special music as the prelude to the 11:00 service at the Washington National Cathedral on Sunday, March 11, 2007.

Da Capo

The Wheatland Chorale presented Aaron Copland's In the Beginning, and other Americana from the Spring 2007 concert in the Abendmusik concert series at the First Presbyterian Church of York, 225 East Market Street, York, PA, on Saturday, October 27, at 7:00 pm.

The Wheatland Chorale also sang the Copland concert at the United Church of Christ at Valley Forge, 45 Walker Road, Wayne, PA, on Sunday, September 16, 2007, at 4:00 pm, in the UCC's "Music of Note" concert series.

Lucerne, Innsbruck, Salzburg, and Munich

Many members of the Wheatland Chorale toured Switzerland, Austria, and Germany for 10 days in June and July of 2008, along with members of Harrisburg's Susquehanna Chorale. We sang concerts in Innsbruck, Salzburg, and Munich, including a 20-minute set at the Salzburg Cathedral. We were enchanted by the Jodlerfest in Lucern, the heights of Mount Pilatus, the character of old town Innsbruck, the witty tour guides in Salzburg, the views from the towers of Munich, and the warmth and welcome that we received everywhere we went.

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