Pass Chorale Spring Concert

Pass Chorale Spring Concert - May 20

The annual Spring Concert of the Pass Chorale community chorus and orchestra will feature opera composer, Giacomo Puccini. But they won’t be presenting an opera. Instead, they will present the Messa di Gloria, a mass for chorus, tenor and baritone soloists, and orchestra that Puccini wrote as a school assignment at the age of 18. It may be a mass, but it is still Puccini. There are many foretastes of the grand opera themes that would characterize his later work.

Soloists are Jonathan Frias and Rohnert Pasqual, tenors, and Ulises Espinoza, baritone. All are from the voice and opera programs at California State University, San Bernardino. Stacy Fraser, head of the opera program, may even sing a Puccini aria.

This mass is an amazing and exciting composition and not often performed because it requires a fairly large orchestra. The Pass Chorale will take it on, but there may be more in the orchestra than in the chorus!

The second part of the program will be songs of America. A salute to America’s first people includes a Serrano Lullaby. A Festival of Freedom by Emily Crocker and Paul Lavender salutes the immigrants and features several of our folk songs. And any Americana program must include the music of George M. Cohan!

It promises to be a great program, come celebrate Puccini and America with us!

The concert will be held on Sunday, May 20, 2012, 2:30 pm at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, 1320 W. Williams St. in Banning. Admission is $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors.

Lionheart at 4th Sunday Concert - April 22

Lionheart, a group led by Giselle Lauterbach, oboe player who has performed in several Pass Chorale concerts, will give a concert on Sunday, April 22, 3:00pm at Dorothy Ramon Learning Center's San Manuel Gathering Hall. The concert falls on Earth Day and will feature celtic and other music. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the door. Proceeds help to support the work of the Learning Center.

The Gathering Hall is located at 127 N. San Gorgonio Avenue in Banning.

4th Sunday Concerts at Dorothy Ramon Learning Center

Dorothy Ramon Learning Center has launched a new concert series, 4th Sunday Concerts, in their new San Manuel Gathering Hall. The first, Bill Bell and friends on Feb. 26, was a great success, with about 100 enthusiastic fiddle music fans attending.

On March 25 the Silver Sounds Flute Ensemble will perform. This flute choir is led by Jackie Aronowitz who plays flute in Pass Chorale concerts. Silver Sounds plays a variety of music on many flutes, from piccolo to bass. Concerts time is 3pm, tickets are $10. The Gathering Hall is located at 127 N. San Gorgonio in Banning. For further info, contact Ernest at 951-849-4676 or siva@ dishmail.net. The concerts benefit the Learning Center.

Pass Chorale Resumes Rehearsals

The Pass Chorale resumes rehearsals at 7 pm on Tuesday, January 17, 2012. We'll begin work on Puccini's Messa di Gloria. This is an amazing work that Puccini wrote when he was 17 or 18. It has very beautiful choruses, with tenor and baritone solos. You can almost hear some of his future opera melodies. It is a seldom performed works, but the Pass Chorale has performed it before.

Please join us, we are again rehearsing in the Dorothy Ramon Learning Center's San Manuel Gathering Hall, 127 N. San Gorgonio Ave., Banning.

Concert Countdown

The Pass Chorale is having extra rehearsals, and we are making final changes to the program before it goes to be copied. We are trying to remember everything that needs to be done before the concert. Today director Ernest is delivering music and picking up the big drums for the percussionist.

Come one, come all to the concert. The Schubert mass is really beautiful, and there's something really special about Christmas music! The carol sing-along is a chance to sing with an orchestra!

The concert is Sunday, December 11, 2:30 pm, Our Savior's Lutheran Church, 1320 W. Williams St., Banning.

Adults: $15

Students and Seniors: $10

Christmas Concert Flyer