Vienna Choral Society

Time After Time – Music For Every Age And Stage Of Life

Thank you so much for your generous donation to the Friends of VCS, and for helping us make our goal! Your support helps us sing more, and better.

We sing our first concert of the season, TIME AFTER TIME, 7:30 pm, Saturday, October 20, 2018 at Providence Presbyterian Church (9019 Little River Turnpike, Fairfax, VA). 

As always, we will be sharing the stage with guest musicians. This time it is our pleasure to welcome the Robinson Secondary School Advanced Treble Chorus.

Tickets are available now through choir members or online.

Time After Timeoffers glimpses of the entire arc of life, embracing sweet and bittersweet, chaos and quiet, the events we anticipate and those we don’t. From Eric Whitacre’s interpretation of the children’s classic Goodnight Moon, to Jonathan Larson’s Seasons Of Love to Doyle Lawson’s arrangement of the old folk song Calling My Children Home, the music evokes the quiet of lullabies, the joyful exuberance of youth, the ringing quiet of the empty nest, and the serenity of lives fully lived.

The inspiration for this concert was Eric Nelson’s affirming arrangement of When Memory Fades, a beautiful piece on memory and sound. Of all our higher senses, hearing develops earliest. We listen in the womb. We retain lullabies all our lives. We understand the babble of babies through cadence as much as the expression on their faces. As life gets busier, we can’t remember why we walked into a room, but we can remember the words to a song we loved in our youth. Sound is what we start with before we take our first breath. Music is what stays with us, all our lives.

No matter what age or stage of life you’re in, you’ll connect to wonderful, thrilling music in this exploration of what it means to be human. Please join us!

Tickets for TIME AFTER TIME are available online at timeaftertime.eventbrite.com
until 11:55 pm, Friday, October 19, 2018.
They will be available at the door on concert night.
The box office opens at 6:30 pm on Saturday, October 20, 2018. 

Tickets are $25 (adults), $20 (Students 15 – 18 and Seniors 60+).
Youth age 14 and younger attend FREE (must be accompanied by a paying ticket holder.)

Tickets for Time After Time

Tickets are now available online, or through choir members, for our first concert of the season!

We always have youth and emerging musicians join us, and this concert is no exception. We’ll share the stage with the Robinson Middle School Advanced Treble Chorus.

Join us!

 

Welcome To Our 31st Season!


Welcome to VCS’ 31st season! After a summer of dreaming, we are more than ready to sing for you. And as always, our artistic director, Mike Horanski has a unique and fun repertoire that is going to be as wonderful for us to sing as we hope it’ll be for you to enjoy!

We’re looking forward to singing the music of Sarah Quartel, the rare, 30-something, female contemporary composer. We’re also looking forward to singing poetry by Euan Tait, set to music by composer Kim Andre Arnesen – both modern contemporary masters. And finally, we can’t wait to get into the music of established and respected composers – Bach, Bernstein, and yes, The Beatles – all of whom started out as rabble rousers, rebels, and risk takers. (Yes, even Bach!)

If you loved the last two seasons under Mr. Horanski’s baton, you’re going to have a great time with this one.

As we have for the last two seasons, we look forward to having emerging artists, youth musicians, and music students join us at every concert. As a teaching choir, this is how we cultivate tomorrow’s artists and audience. It’s how tomorrow’s marquee names learn to own their spotlight. It’s how tomorrow’s music patrons develop everything from concert etiquette to a discriminating ear.

At VCS, we do all of that. And we do it with your support.

At a time when the arts have to fight for every dollar, you help us cultivate the next generation of artists and art lovers. Your support builds rare common ground and had-to-be-there moments that appear nowhere else in our lives. None of it happens without you. So we hope you’ll join the 2018-19 Friends of VCS campaign, which runs September 1-30, 2018.

As always, it’s a great deal for the benefits. All donors get discounts with our partners Caffe Amouri, Cocoa Vienna, and – we’re excited to report – Bards Alley in Vienna! This season, all donors will also get entered into a raffle – one lucky winner will get to go to dinner with a friend. On us. Coffee, candy, wine, books, dinner, and music. What’s not to love? Become a Friend of VCS today. We promise you won’t regret it!

Donate online, or send us an old fashioned check to The Vienna Choral Society, PO Box 310, Vienna, VA 22183.

However or at whatever level you’d like to become a Friend of VCS, we are happy to have you here and sing for you.

Please join us this season!

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Vienna, VA 22180
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