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What's New

Spring Benefit 2008 on May 19th!
The Hills are Alive!!

Monday, May 19th 2008
The Racquet and Tennis Club
370 Park Avenue

6:30pm Cocktails and a light buffet supper
8:00pm Performance and champagne
9:00pm Live auction of a few very special items
9:20pm Dessert and coffee

Climb every mountain to join the irrepressible Tony Award-winning Roger Rees and the world-renowned diva Lauren Flanigan on a musical romp through the Austrian Alps (with side trips to Broadway, Hollywood, and the opera house)!

For more information please contact Patrick Goss at 646.435.9052 or pgoss@collegiatechorale.org
The Collegiate Chorale in Israel
July 13th-21st 2008

The Collegiate Chorale
Thomas Hampson, baritone
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta, conductor

July 13th-16th: Tel Aviv
July 17th: Haifa
July 18th: Jerusalem
July 20th: Haifa
July 21st: Jerusalem

Bach, Cantata 140
Bloch, Sacred Service

Saturday, July 12th
The Tel Aviv Museum
The Collegiate Chorale
Robert Bass, conductor

Works by Bernstein, Verdi, Brahms, Victoria, Thompson and Traditional American Spirituals.

To receive detailed information about the Patron Tour which will run from July 11-22, please contact Lisa Phillips, Director of Development and Marketing at 646-202-9622.
Upcoming Events
Click here to download the Season Brochure.

U.S. Premiere
Handel, Jupiter in Argos
April 28, 8pm -- Avery Fisher Hall
with the Orchestra of St Luke's

Click Here to purchase tickets online.

Click Here to read Musicologist John H. Roberts' notes on his reconstruction of this work.

Click here to read The Opera Critic review of this work's world premiere at the Handel Festival in Gottingen in May 2007.

Click here to read The Financial Times review of the Gottingen performance.

For more details call 646-792-2373.
Visit The Chorale's Blog!!
Click here to explore this new feature.
Praise for A White House Cantata on 3/31/08
Click here to read The New York Times review of this performance

Click here to read a review of this performance in Variety

Click here to read The Financial Times review of this performance
Praise for Elijah
Click here to read The New York Times review of this performance

Click here to read the Q on Stage review of this performance
The 2007 Annual Gala
The Annual Gala took place at Carnegie Hall on Monday, November 19th, in conjunction with The Chorale's performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah.

Click here to see photos from The New York Sun's coverage of the event
Robert Bass in The New York Times

"A Maestro Conducting With Heart ... a New One"
July 23rd, 2007
By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO

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"Tonight Robert Bass will make a conducting debut of sorts, when the Collegiate Chorale performs Carl Orff's Carmina Burana at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland.

Mr. Bass, 53, has been the chorale's music director since 1980 and is no stranger to the stage. But his new heart is. This will be his first performance since a heart transplant four months ago and his only gig before a stem-cell transplant next month.

These are the latest steps in a medical odyssey that has fundamentally altered both his life and his approach to conducting ..."

Click here to read full article.