Repertoire
Listed below are the performances given by the Seattle Symphony Chorale since 1997.
2011-2012 |
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| Nov 10-13, 2011 |
Poulenc | Gloria | Robert Spano, conductor |
| Dec 16-18 | Handel | Messiah | Jean-Marie Zeitouni |
| Dec 28-31 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
2010-2011 |
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| Dec 16-19, 2010 |
Handel | Messiah | Gerard Schwarz, conductor |
| Dec 29-Jan 2, 2011 |
Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jan 20-22 |
Mozart | Requiem |
Gerard Schwarz |
| Jan 27 |
Verdi | La Traviata, "Drinking Song" and Aida, "Triumphal Scene" | Gary Thor Wedow |
| Mar 31-Apr 3 |
Brahms | Schicksalslied ("Song of Destiny") | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 16-18 | Mahler | Symphony No. 2 in C minor, "Resurrection" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 24-25 | Orff | Carmina Burana | Alexander Shelley |
2009-2010 |
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| Nov 12-14, 2009 | Orff | Carmina Burana | Gerard Schwarz, conductor |
| Dec 9 | various | Holiday Sing-along | Joseph Crnko |
| Dec 17-20 | Handel | Messiah | Gary Thor Wedow |
| Dec 30-Jan 3, 2010 | Brahms | Liebeslieder Waltzes | Gerard Schwarz |
| Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | ||
| Mar 18-21 | Ravel | Daphnis et Chloé | Vassily Sinaisky |
| Jun 17-19 | Mendelssohn | Symphony No. 2, "Lobgesang" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 27-27 | Bernstein | Chichester Psalms | Gerard Schwarz |
2008-2009 |
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| Sep 25-28, 2008 | Mahler | Symphony No. 8, "Symphony of a Thousand" | Gerard Schwarz, conductor |
| Dec 9 | various | Holiday Sing-along | Joseph Crnko |
| Dec 18-21 | Handel | Messiah | Gerard Schwarz |
| Dec 31-Jan 4, 2009 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Feb 12-15 | Fauré | Requiem | JoAnn Falletta |
| May 7-9 | Strauss | Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 25-27 | Kernis | Symphony No. 3, "Symphony of Meditations" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Holst | The Planets |
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2007-2008 |
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| Oct 11-14, 2007 | Mozart | Requiem | Carolyn Kuan, conductor |
| Dec 13-16 | Handel | Messiah | Christian Knapp |
| Dec 20 | various | Holiday Sing-along | Joseph Crnko |
| Dec 28-31 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Mar 20-22, 2008 | Bach | Mass in B Minor | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 12-15 | Prokofiev | Alexander Nevsky | Xian Zhang |
2006-2007 |
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| Dec 14-17, 2006 | Handel | Messiah | Gerard Schwarz, conductor |
| Dec 28-30 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Apr 5-7, 2007 | Beethoven | Missa Solemnis | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 7-9 | Janáček | Glagolitic Mass | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 28-Jul 1 | Mahler | Symphony No. 3 | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jul 12-14 | Orff | Carmina Burana | Carolyn Kuan |
2005-2006 |
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| Dec 15-18, 2005 | Handel | Messiah | Alasdair Neale, conductor |
| Dec 28-30 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jan 26-28, 2006 | Mozart | Requiem | Itzhak Perlman |
| Feb 2-5 | Mozart | Great Mass in C Minor | Gerard Schwarz |
| R. Strauss | Finale from Mozart's Idomeneo | ||
| Mar 3-4 | Vivaldi | Gloria | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 15-18 | Walton | Belshazzar's Feast | Gerard Schwarz |
2004-2005 |
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| Nov 4-7, 2004 | Ravel | Suites from Daphnis et Chloë | Gerard Schwarz, conductor |
| Jones | Seas of God | ||
| Dec 16-19 | Handel | Messiah | Gerard Schwarz |
| Dec 30-Jan 2, 2005 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Apr 14-17 | Mendelssohn | Elijah | Helmut Rilling |
| Apr 28-30 | Schumann | Manfred | Gerard Schwarz |
| May 20-22 | Mozart | Requiem | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 23-26 | Verdi | Requiem | Gerard Schwarz |
2003-2004 |
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| Sep 18-21, 2003 | Beethoven | Choral Fantasy | Gerard Schwarz, conductor |
| Nov 13-16 | Holst | Planets | Gerard Schwarz |
| Nov 20-23 | Bernstein | Symphony No. 3, "Kaddish" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Dec 18-21 | Handel | Messiah | James Judd |
| Jan 2-4, 2004 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Mar 5-7 | Bach | Magnificat | Harry Bicket |
| Apr 8-10 | Schoenberg | A Survivor from Warsaw | Andreas Delfs |
| Brahms | German Requiem | ||
| Jul 8-10 | Orff | Carmina Burana | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jul 15-17 | Shore | Lord of the Rings Symphony | Howard Shore |
2002-2003 |
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| Sep 14, 2002 | Verdi | Two opera choruses | Gerard Schwarz, conductor |
| Oct 31 | Liszt | A Faust Symphony | Gerard Schwarz |
| Dec 18-22 | Handel | Messiah | Gerard Schwarz |
| Dec 31-Jan 2, 2003 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jan 23-24 | Shostakovich | Symphony No. 13 | Gerard Schwarz |
| Apr 10-13 | Walton | Te Deum | Gerard Schwarz |
| Apr 18-20 | Mozart | Requiem | John Nelson |
| May 15 | Estevez | La cantata criolla | Gerard Schwarz |
| May 29-Jun 1 | Bruch | Das Lied von der Glocke | Gerard Schwarz |
2001-2002 |
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| Sep 29, 2001 | Handel | Excerpts from Messiah | Gerard Schwarz, conductor |
| Verdi | "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves" from Nabucco | ||
| Dec 15-22 | Handel | Messiah | Alastair Willis (1st concert); Christopher Seaman |
| Jan 4-5, 2002 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jan 24-27 | Mozart | Sancta Maria | Richard Hickox |
| Mozart | Missa Brevis in C | ||
| Mozart | Requiem | ||
| Mar 22-24 | Bach | Mass in B Minor | Bernard Labadie |
| Apr 11-12 | Lazarof | Symphony No. 5 (World Premiere) | Gerard Schwarz |
| Brahms | Schicksalslied | ||
| Jun 6-9 | Schumann | The Paradise of the Peri | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 27-30 | Mahler | Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" | Gerard Schwarz |
2000-2001 |
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| Dec 13-17, 2000 | Handel | Messiah | Gerard Schwarz, conductor |
| Dec 29-30 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Mar 22-24 | Walton | Belshazzar's Feast | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 7-9 | Hanson | Lament for Beowulf | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 7-10 | Janácek | Glagolitic Mass | Gerard Schwarz |
1999-2000 |
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| Sep 19, 1999 | Handel | Messiah | Abraham Kaplan, conductor |
| Dec 15-17 | Handel | Messiah | George Manahan |
| Dec 29-31 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jan 6-7, 2000 | Mendelssohn | Symphony No. 2, "Lobgesang" | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 1-11 | Holst | Planets | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 8-9 | Stravinsky | Oedipus Rex | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 15-18 | Mahler | Symphony No. 3 | Gerard Schwarz |
1998-1999 |
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| Sep 20, 1998 | Bernstein | Chichester Psalms | Abraham Kaplan, conductor |
| Kaplan | 3 Psalms | ||
| Nov 5-8 | Rachmaninov | Three Russian Songs | Gerard Schwarz |
| Nov 12-15 | Debussy | Nocturnes | Gerard Schwarz |
| Dec 3-4 | Lazarof | In Celebration (World Premiere) | Gerard Schwarz |
| Dec 16-19 | Handel | Messiah | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jan 15-16, 1999 | Bach | Magnificat | Gerard Schwarz |
| Apr 29-May 1 | Taylor | Peter Ibbetson | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 17-20 | Verdi | Requiem | Gerard Schwarz |
1997-1998 |
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| Sep 15-16, 1997 | Orff | Carmina Burana | Gerard Schwarz, conductor |
| Nov 9-11 | Bernstein | Chichester Psalms | Gerard Schwarz |
| Nov 10-11 | Hopkins | Songs of Eternity | Gerard Schwarz |
| Dec 14-15 | Handel | Messiah | Gerard Schwarz |
| Dec 31 | Strauss | Excerpts from Die Fledermaus | Gerard Schwarz |
| Mar 9-10, 1998 | Stravinsky | Le Rossignol | Gerard Schwarz |
| May 4-5 | Ravel | Daphnis et Chloë | Gerard Schwarz |
| Jun 30 | Beethoven | Symphony No. 9, "Choral" | Gerard Schwarz |
About the Chorale
The Seattle Symphony Chorale, the official chorus of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, was founded as the Seattle Chorale in 1953 by Leonard Moore. The Chorale began its formal affiliation with the Symphony in 1976 and now consists of approximately 120 volunteer singers chosen by audition.