BRATTLEBORO — The Brattleboro Concert Choir invites new and returning singers to take part in its spring 2021 virtual season as its Stay-at-Home Sing-Along series continues. The group also is offering virtual performances of choral works.
Music Director Jonathan Harvey and the choir are committed to building and maintaining a musical community. “Especially now, music is an essential source of joy, solace, solidarity, and hope,” Harvey said in a news release.
This spring, the choir will offer monthly virtual performances of works by women composers, where individual voices will be combined digitally into a multi-part harmony.
Also, singers are invited to join the choir's virtual musical community beginning in February. The monthly Stay-At-Home Sing-Along will allow participants, via the video and audio conferencing platform Zoom, to sing together to great works from the choral-orchestral repertoire.
Harvey explains that participants logging into each Sing-Along session will warm up together, talk about the music and its context, and when they sing, the music will be projected on participants' computer screens as the group sings along to great recordings.
Singers will also receive digital sheet music, practice resources, and program notes in advance.
Each virtual performance will be preceded by online rehearsals, also held on Zoom, during which Harvey will teach and shape the piece, preparing singers to record and submit their own individual virtual performance contributions.