The Long Beach Chorale encourages talented singers to audition for its 20th-anniversary season!
Auditions will be held by appointment during the first three weeks of August at St. Bartholomew Catholic Church, in the Belmont Shore area of Long Beach. Prospective members are invited to contact the chorus by calling (562) 431-2781 or e-mailing [email protected] for information or to schedule an audition. Singers in all voice parts are welcomed; choral experience and the ability to read music are preferred. Auditions are brief, informal, and non-threatening.
Directed by Eliza Rubenstein and comprising 40 talented amateurs of all ages and backgrounds, the Long Beach Chorale has consistently earned high praise and rave reviews for its performances of a wide variety of repertoire. Jim Ruggirello of the Grunion Gazette has called the ensemble Long Beach’s “best local chorus,” and wrote of the chorus’s February 2008 performance that “the Chorale sounded absolutely fabulous.”
The 2008-09 season marks the Long Beach Chorale’s 20th anniversary as a Long Beach institution, and will include a series of special concerts and events to commemorate the occasion. A planned highlight of the season will be a rare performance of Handel’s Dettingen Te Deum, the last (and, by some accounts, greatest) major choral-orchestral work by the Baroque master.
The Long Beach Chorale rehearses on Monday evenings in Belmont Shore.