2009-2010 Season     Passion, Peace   and Freedom    Koch and Fowler - Ten Seasons of Artistry   Something special is happening along the Grand Strand, where arts and culture are blossoming like never before.  The Carolina Master Chorale is delighted to share the charge, hand in hand with our colleagues in music, theatre, dance, arts education and concert presentation in offering the most artistically stimulating events ever available in the region. Composer-in-Residence and CMC accompanist Dr. Andrew Fowler and I enter our ninth season of combined leadership in choral music-making, and we hope you are catching the fever. Further, we hope you are spreading the fever to everyone you love, as a gift to them and as a gift to the community, fostering the continuing growth of our arts scene.    The title of the 2008-2009 Carolina Master Chorale Season might also become the CMC’s permanent nickname: Voices of Passion.  Our desire for you as an audience member at every one of our concerts is that you will feel the passion that binds us all together through committed performances of the world’s most compelling music for voices and instruments.  At each of our events we expect to offer an encounter that is unique in your life, communicating with you through deep and meaningful artistic gestures, and sending you away certain that your life is richer for the experience.   We hope you will avail yourself of every opportunity to be uplifted on our season.  Catch the fever, and hear the Voices of Passion!  You’ll be glad you came.  You have my word on that!    - Tim Koch, Music Director and Conductor  CAROLINA MASTER CHORALE  presents

The Seven Deadly Sins

(World Première)

and

An American Hallel

Featuring  Internationally Renowned Composer

Michael Isaacson  

and veteran actor

                         Mitch Laurance

Friday, October 30, 2009, 8PM  •   All Saints Church, Pawleys Island

Saturday, October 31, 2009, 8PM  •   Trinity Episcopal Church, Myrtle Beach

   Sunday, November 1, 2009, 4PM • St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Conway

The Halloween choral experience of a lifetime featuring the World Première of The Seven Deadly Sins by Hollywood composer Michael Isaacson and poet Nicholas Gordon with the poet and composer in attendance.

Michael Isaacson has composed a full Hallel for SATB Chorus entitled An American Hallel with interpolations of expressions of praise and gratitude by past and present Americans.  Mitch Laurance narrates An American Hallel.

An Outbreak of Peace

Sing On!  Dance On!

Saturday, May 15, 2010,  8PM

 

Sunday, May 16, 2010,  4PM  

Academy for Arts, Science & Technology, Myrtle Beach

Featuring Gian Carlo Menotti's madrigal fable The Unicorn, The Gorgon and The Manticore,  the season's finale marries the glorious arts of Choral Music and Dance with members of the Long Bay Symphony Chamber Orchestra and the Myrtle Beach School for the Performing Arts.  The concert and anniversary season conclude with the world premiere of Andrew Fowler's Freedom in the 21st Century

 SPECIAL EVENT

Bruckner's Te Deum and Verdi's Stabat Mater

The CMC appears as guest artist with the Long Bay Symphony

Sunday, March 14, 2010 - 4PM - Myrtle Beach High School

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