The 2024 Spring Concert for Chrismon Chorale, scheduled for Saturday, April 27, 2024, at 7:30 pm from the Presbyterian Church of the Way (PCOTW) in Shoreview, MN, will be livestreamed.
Those who wish to connect with the livestream can do so by:
1) Going to YouTube using their web browser, then,
2) Entering PCOTW in the Search box, and then,
3) Clicking the video for “Chrismon Chorale Concert, April 27, 2024.”
View our Fall Concert Program here.
Following a successful choral season, our first since suspending choral activities for COVID, Chrismon Chorale is now actively planning for our 2023-24 Fall and Spring concerts. Rehearsal and concert dates are already on our calendar. We hope to have all venues confirmed for both semesters by the end of August. Concert dates that you can mark on your calendar now are:
Auditions for those who would like to join the Chrismon Chorale for the first time, but who have never sung with Larry, and those who have not sung with the Chorale since the COVID suspension, will occur on Tuesday evening, August 29, from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm in the Music Room at Cedar Valley Church (our rehearsal room). Those who plan to sing for Larry need to contact Chorale Board President, John Halvorsen — (ejejpj@comcast.net, or 651-341-8101 by phone or text) so that I can place them on the audition schedule.
The Chorale also has several important personnel needs. If you are interested in any finding out more information about the positions listed below, please email or call/text John Halvorsen at the contacts noted above
The Spring Concert will focus on choral Prayers and Psalms. Musical texts include those from Psalms 1, 8, 9, 11 ,14, 30, 42, and 150, and Romans 8, I Corinthians 14, and Ephesians 3. Prayers include works by Craig Courtney, Jocelyn Hagen, and Gabriel Fauré.
Please join us as we celebrate God’s love, power, and presence.
As always, we want to remind you that the Chorale also needs your financial help to continue its ministry. You can contribute in several ways:
All contributions to Chrismon Chorale are tax deductible. Our Federal tax identification number is 56-2676271. We are also registered as a charity with the Minnesota Secretary of State with the Corporate Charter Number 2570451-2
Chrismon Chorale successfully completed its Fall Semester concerts this past weekend – the first concert since Fall 2019. The audience response was enthusiastic and encouraging with many affirming verbal comments following the concert, such as,
We also received affirming written comments, such as,
We look forward with even greater anticipation to our 2023 Spring Concert Schedule, with performances on Friday, May, 19, Saturday, May 20, and Sunday, May 21. Since we will no longer mail postcards to alert people of our concert schedule, we ask that you please go to our website – www.chrismon-chorale.org – and enter your name and email address in the SUBSCRIBE section found in the lower right corner of all website pages. You will then automatically receive updated information about the Chorale.
Starting anew following a two-year hiatus, the Chorale also needs your financial help to continue its ministry. You can contribute in several ways:
All contributions to Chrismon Chorale are tax deductible. Our Federal tax identification number is 56-2676271. We are also registered as a charity with the Minnesota Secretary of State with the Corporate Charter Number 2570451-2
Following a two-year COVID-induced suspension of choral activity, Twin Cities Master’sChorale is eagerly, optimistically, and enthusiastically resuming rehearsals and concerts for the Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 Concert Season, re-vitalized and re-imagined — even with a new name. TCMC is now Chrismon Chorale.
Rehearsals began September 6 in a new location — Cedar Valley Church in Bloomington.
Fall concerts will occur on November at St Paul-Reformation Lutheran (7:30 pm, Friday,11/11), Bloomington Covenant (7:30 pm, Saturday,11/12), and Presbyterian Church of the Way (4:30 pm, Sunday, 11/13).
About the new name: The Chorale began as Contati Evangelica, and was renamed Twin Cities Master’s Chorale when it was officially incorporated as a nonprofit organization. As the Board of Directors began to re-imagine the Chorale, they determined that, with its “fresh start,” the timing was again right to give it a new name.
The term “chrismon” is a contraction of the Latin phrase “Christi monogramma” — “monogram of Christ”. Since early Christianity, “chrismon” has referred to any symbol or figure that represents the name of Christ. A common chrismon is the chi (X)-rho (P) — in Greek, the first two letters in Christ (ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ, Khristos). This new name represents the Chorale’s mission to embody Christ through its music, from ancient to contemporary, and the truth contained in its message.