2024/2025 Season
The Middletown Community Chorus hosted a Mid-Winter Choral Festival featuring guest choruses from the Appoquinimink School district at Odessa High School Performing Arts Center, Townsend DE, on January 12th 2025.
MCC performed in the first half, joined by the Odessa High School Advanced Chorus for the last two numbers of our set. After intermission, the Middletown High School Advanced Chorus took the stage, followed by the Appoquinimink High School Chorus, and then the Odessa HS Advanced Chorus returned for their own set.
All the choruses joined together to sing Turn the World Around as a rousing send-off.
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MCC’s Spring 2025 concert, Jazz and Romance, on May 18th at Odessa High School’s performing arts center was an afternoon of classic jazz love songs! From Round Midnight to I Wish You Love to You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To and more, it was an afternoon filled with sultry tunes to tickle the ears and stir the heart.
In addition to the choral arrangements, the concert featured MCC soloists covering love (and love questioning) songs from Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Johnny Mercer, Jerome Kern and Irving Berlin.
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2023/2024 Season
The Middletown Community Chorus Winter concert featured the Schubert Mass in G. Originally scheduled for December 15 2023, it was rescheduled due to an outbreak of respiratory illnesses in the chorus in mid-December, and was held on January 25th 2024 at 7:30pm at Everett Meredith Middle School in Middletown DE.
In addition to the Schubert Mass in G, performed with soloists from the MCC chorus, we also performed Lamentations of Jeremiah (Z Randall Stroope), He Watching over Israel (Felix Mendelssohn, Elijah), The Last Words of David (Randall Thompson) and Glow (Eric Whitacre).
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The first anniversary concert of the Middletown Community Chorus, A Time for Music, offered an eclectic mix of music with works by Dan Forrest, Elaine Hagenberg, Stephen Sondheim, Marvin Hamlisch and Michael John Trotta plus traditional spirituals and gospel.
The concert also featured student soloists – vocal and instrumental – from Odessa and Middletown High Schools.
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Click here for the video of Wayfaring Stranger.
First Concert Spring 2023
The Middletown Community Chorus’ inaugural concert, A Celebration of Music, was held on May 8th 2023 at 7:30pm at the Performing Arts Center at Odessa High School. The ensemble began rehearsing in February 2023 and the wide ranging repertoire of this concert captured the joy and energy of the new group. From Hallelujah (Ludwig Van Beetthoven, Mount of Olives) to Flight Song (Kim Andre Arnesen) to Raise Your Voice (Alan Menken, Sister Act), the music showcased the variety that is part of the MCC choral experience.
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