Mass of the Children

Our next concert will feature John Rutter's Mass of the Children and Felix Mendolssohn's Psalm 42. It will be held at the new Dover High School Auditorium on April 8, 2017 at 7pm. This program will prominently feature our own Delaware Youth Chorale (DYC), a choir of 3rd through 8th grade singers from all over Kent County. 

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A small group of DCS members rehearses regularly to sing at various venues for community outreach purposes. If you would like DCS to perform at your event, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .   

The Delaware Choral Society (DCS) was formed in Dover in 1957 by a group of church choirs desiring to perform Handel's Messiah. Originally Messiah was performed every December, but over the course of time, the group decided to branch out into other choral music of the great composers. Now works by composers from the Renaissance to the present, as well as renditions of spirituals, folk, and popular music, are performed in concerts held at least twice every year. In 2014 the Delaware Youth Chorale (DYC) was formed by DCS to introduce middle school-aged children to the joys of choral singing. The DYC is now an integral part of DCS concerts. However, every fifth December DCS celebrates its beginnings by perfoming Handel's Messiah. Our next performance of Messiah will be December 3, 2017, which happens to coincide almost to the day of our 60th anniversay!   For an overview of all of our concerts, click on Our History.

The Delaware Choral Society is supported, in part, by a grant from the Delaware Division of the Arts, a state agency, in partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts. The Division promotes Delaware arts events on www.DelawareScene.com.     

The Delaware Choral Society is also supported, in part, by a grant from the Kent County Fund for the Arts.