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Since
1957, the Delaware
Choral Society has brought
the music of great
composers to Dover and its
surrounding communities.
We just concluded our 50th Anniversary
Celebration with our spectacular sold-out Gala concert
on May 12, 2007, at the Modern
Maturity Center in Dover. It was an unforgettable evening, and our
picture below shows us in our gala attire just at the start of the
concert. At left in white is our beloved Judy Moore, to whom we
said our last good-byes as music director, but not as friend and
supporter--Judy has promised to attend future concerts, and we look
forward to seeing her often.
Perhaps the biggest thrill of this wonderful event was the attendance
and participation of so many past members of the Delaware Choral
Society. When the final moment arrived to sing our traditional
"Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah, the area around the
stage became crowded with those who had sung with us for so many years.
Emotions ran high that night, the culmination of so much preparation, so
many hopes and dreams for a truly great celebration of fifty years in
the performance of fine choral music. What a night! 
We have wonderful things in store for the 2007-2008 season, including
a new conductor! The
Delaware Choral Society
proudly introduces Kevin Thomas! Our new
conductor hails from the Easton, Maryland, area, and we are very
grateful for his willingness to drive so far every week just to
conduct our group. Kevin has some
new and exciting ideas for the Delaware Choral Society, especially for
our spring 2008 concert, when we will be performing Donald McCullough's
Holocaust Cantata: Songs from the Camps at the Smyrna Opera House
in April. Our
Christmas concert, entitled "Christmas Fanfares and Carols," will take a
more traditional approach, and will feature Daniel Pinkham's "Christmas
Cantata," and traditional Christmas carols in many of which the audience
will be asked to join.
Rehearsals will begin September 4, 2007, to prepare
for the Christmas concert, and we hope
that you will plan to sing with us or to attend our concert at the
Wesley United Methodist Church in Dover on December 2, 2007, at 4:00
p.m. See
A Letter from
Kevin for more details; feel free to call us at
302-422-7775 if you have any questions.
We'd also like to invite you to share memories at a
Delaware Choral Society History Blog hosted by Susan Vowels, a past
president of the Delaware Choral Society. She is in the planning
stages of writing a book about the first fifty years of this Diamond
State Gem - if you'd like to contribute, please go to
www.dcsmemories.blogspot.com.
Here's
to another 50 years!
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