The Washington Chorus Announces Winter and Spring 2022 Live Concerts and Special Events
The Washington Chorus – DC’s most dynamic choral ensemble, led by Artistic Director Eugene Rogers and Executive Director Stephen Beaudoin – announced today its lineup of Spring 2022 live and digital choral music experiences, designed to bring our community together around the joy of discovery with choral music, words, ideas, and stories that matter more than ever.
“these experiences are for you – your heart and mind, your eyes and ears”
“Our Spring 2022 live and digital music events are designed with our audience top of mind: both friends of The Washington Chorus who’ve come to our events for many years, and those new friends who haven’t yet joined us: these experiences are for you – your heart and mind, your eyes and ears; for yourself and your friends and families,” says Executive Director Stephen Beaudoin.
“From the stunning visual and musical beauty of our ‘Resilience’ digital choral experience playing the entire month of February to our June ‘Justice & Peace’ live concert with chorus and orchestra at the Kennedy Center, TWC Artistic Director Eugene Rogers and our incredible team of chorus members, artistic collaborators, and orchestra members are pouring their hearts and souls into these one-of-a-kind choral music experiences that will surprise you, and connect you to emotions, ideas, and stories that leave you changed.”
From musical meditations on concepts of “justice” and “peace” in our American democracy to a lively celebration of the next generation of musical talent, here are The Washington Chorus’ Spring 2022 programs:
“Resilience” digital choral experience
Running online now through February 28, 2022
What is it:
A one-of-a-kind visual choral experience combining sumptuous filmmaking, lush music for chorus, strings, and vocal soloists, and introspective poetry, featuring The Washington Chorus (Eugene Rogers, Artistic Director) with luminary guest artists including pianist Lara Downes and Rome Prize winning poet Samiya Bashir, in music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Margaret Bonds, Rollo Dilworth, and more.
Available on a pay-what-you-will model through February 28, 2022. One purchase allows the user unlimited streaming access to the program.
“America’s Requiem: A Knee on the Neck” WORLD PREMIERE live concert experience
March 26 and 28, 2022
What is it:
The world premiere of a bold and urgent new musical work meditating on truth, justice, and the life and tragic death of George Floyd, with emotionally evocative poetry by Dr. Herbert Martin set to a powerful musical score by Adolphus Hailstork, regarded as one of our most prominent living American composers.
This program also includes Mozart’s ineffably beautiful Requiem. The Washington Chorus is proud to join with the National Philharmonic, National Philharmonic Chorale, and Howard University to collaborate on this landmark live music event.
Buy March 26 show tickets here
The Music Center at Strathmore (Bethesda, MD)
Saturday, March 26, 2022, at 8 pm
Buy March 28 show tickets here
Capital One Hall (Tysons, VA)
Monday, March 28, 2022, at 7:30 pm
DC Honor Chorus 2022
May 6, 2022
What is it:
A celebration of the creative potential of our next generation! The 2022 DC Honor Chorus, led by TWC Interim Associate Conductor Jonathan King, brings together talented elementary and middle school singers from across all eight wards of the District of Columbia, in a festival celebration of the power of young people to raise their voices together to make a difference. This program is a proud partnership with our friends at the Children’s Chorus of Washington.
Tickets not yet available; more information forthcoming.
THE ARC (Washington, DC)
Friday, May 6, 2022 at Time TBA
TWC presents “Justice & Peace” at the Kennedy Center: live concert experience
June 12, 2022
What is it:
“Word over all, beautiful as the sky! Beautiful that war, and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost.” These words from American poet Walt Whitman serve as a central meditation in this musical experience from The Washington Chorus (TWC): Justice & Peace. In his chorus and orchestra debut with TWC at The Kennedy Center Concert Hall, Artistic Director Eugene Rogers invites you to be part of this moving and urgent musical reflection on our time, and the vital role that both justice and peace play in creating a world where every voice is celebrated and included. The program opens with the world premiere of a new musical work for chorus and percussion by University of Michigan composer Roshanne Etezady, then moves to the DC premiere of “Justice Symphony” by Oregon composer Damien Geter, a recent composer with Washington National Opera's American Opera Initiative. The program concludes with Ralph Vaughan Williams’ stunning “Dona Nobis Pacem,” a moving piece of music for chorus, orchestra, and soloists that is a true cry for peace. Dr. Rogers leads The Washington Chorus with professional orchestra and soloists Karen Slack, soprano, in her Washington Chorus debut, and baritone Kerry Wilkerson.
Buy tickets here
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Concert Hall (Washington, DC)
Sunday, June 12, 2022, at 5:00 pm