Raise a Glass…Viva Vino is Back!🍷
We’re getting ready to raise a glass as our popular Viva Vino fundraiser evening is coming back to Judson, on Thursday, April 30th!
Join us as we welcome back our quartet of artists—tenor John Bellemer, sopranos Sarah Blaze and Melissa Cintron, and bass-baritone Justin Beck, for a flight of songs paired with wine selected by our very own tenor-sommelier James Dantas, DipWSET.
And as your hosts, we’ll also offer a song or two, accompanied by our Artistic Director Colin Britt and our pianist Elena Belli.
Tickets ($80) are available online now or from a Chorale member. We hope you can join us!
Our Spring Concert is Almost Here…
The West Village Chorale is proud to be closing our 2025-26 season on Sunday, May 17th at 5:00pm with This Land is Your Land, a collaboration with Jersey City-based Nimbus Dance, in which we consider where we are as a nation as we mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
This Land centers on two pieces by acclaimed composer Saunder Choi: his New Colossus, a compelling setting of the Emma Lazarus poem at the base of the Statue of Liberty, and the world premiere of Angel Island Lamentations, commissioned by the Chorale and featuring world-premiere choreography for Nimbus by Houston Thomas.
We are thrilled and extremely proud to bring this program to Judson Memorial Church, which was the birthplace of postmodern dance in the 1960’s, and which continues to be known as a venue for many groundbreaking works.
Also featured in the program are beautiful and inspiring contemporary works by award-winning composers Melissa Dunphy, Caroline Shaw, Moira Smiley, and Alex Berko. The program is tied together by Robert DeCormier’s reflective arrangement of the Woody Guthrie song that gives our concert its name.
Advance Tickets ($50 Premium / $40 General Admission / $20 Student) are available online now or from a Chorale member.
Any remaining tickets will be available at the door ($45 General / $25 Student), but our concerts regularly sell out—don’t wait!
Thanks for Riding Along on our Winter Concert!
Thanks to everyone who joined us for our recent winter concert, “All Aboard: Conductor’s Choice”!
We were very excited to are hard at work rehearsing for our upcoming Winter Concert, marking our Artistic Director Colin Britt’s tenth year (and twenty-fifth concert) at our helm!
“All Aboard” featured some of Colin’s favorite pieces—from staples of the choral canon by giants such as Brahms, Duruflé, Fauré and Vaughn-Williams to contemporary works by award-winning composers Abbie Betinis, Shara Nova and Caroline Shaw, among others.
You can read the Concert Program here.