What is ExtraGive?

The ExtraGive is a community celebration of giving inspiring thousands of individual donations and shining a light on the work of our community benefit sector. Since 2012, our community has raised more than $100 Million for regional organizations.

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ExtraGive provides the platform for Wheatland’s most important fundraising event of the year, and we are proud to be included in this community-wide giving opportunity.

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Your gift will allow the Chorale to continue offering concerts of the highest caliber and will provide the organization with the capacity to undertake several new educational and outreach initiatives outlined in our new 3-year strategic plan.

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We raised over $18,000.00 during last year's Extra Give!

Let’s see if we can raise an additional $2,000 to reach our $20,000.00 goal!

To make the most of your donation, please consider checking the box to cover the credit card fees.

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About Wheatland Chorale

The Wheatland Chorale was founded in 1987 and regularly performs in the Lancaster area in December and April/May of each year. The current Artistic Director, David J. Fitzpatrick, is the third in the Chorale’s history.  

 

The Wheatland Chorale is focused on deepening our impact and relevance for the local community. We are dedicated to preserving Wheatland’s core mission to provide excellent choral music, while exploring new avenues for audience involvement. We recognize the critical importance of acknowledging a diversifying population in the communities we serve and we strive towards evolving the Chorale into an organization that explicitly welcomes that audience. 

 

Since 2023, the Chorale has seen tremendous growth in audience development, new membership, and giving. The Chorale has begun the third year of our 3-year strategic plan as we continue to expand the Chorale’s reach and keep the organization vital and relevant for years to come. 

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This season, we are excited to share another year of inspiring performances, including Season of Light, which celebrates the joy and wonder of the holiday season through a variety of choral works. Our spring concert, featuring Shostakovich’s Symphony of Psalms, will offer audiences another opportunity to experience the depth and power of choral music. We are also continuing to develop the Wheatland Chorale Festival Singers, a community-based ensemble that brings regional singers together for larger collaborative performances, including a planned 2027 performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 with the Allegro Orchestra.

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Another important initiative is our three-year composer-in-residence program featuring local composer Tina Davidson. Through this program, audiences have the opportunity to experience the work of a living composer throughout the season. The residency will culminate in a commissioned work inspired by the experiences of refugees in our community, incorporating their stories and poems into a powerful musical experience. This project reflects our commitment to creating new music, building meaningful community connections, and bringing attention to stories that deserve to be heard.

 

Your gift to the Wheatland Chorale allows us to continue to provide inspiring musical experiences for our community. It will also allow us to continue to grow and create new initiatives and collaborations within our area. As we launch the composer-in-residence project, your gift will go even further in reaching new audiences and helping us to elevate voices in the local community that often go unheard.  

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Thank you for your gift to the Wheatland Chorale. We hope to see you at an upcoming concert!