Richmond Choral Society

A spooky song from your friends at RCS! Have a Happy & Safe Halloween! Song: "Les Djinns" ("The Genies") (Gabriel Faure)... English Translation by Marina Alexander: Walls, city and port, asylum of death, gray seas, where waft the breezes, all sleep. From the meadows comes a cry. It’s the sighing of the night. It is ringing, like a soul rising, always following a flame. A voice that’s so high just like a bell. See the dwarf jumping seeing how he leaps. Fleeing, he’s springing, springing, see how he frolics, dancing on waves of pattering feet. Rumbling approaches. The echo resounds. It’s like a bell tolling from a hellish shrine, like a mob it bellows, its thunderclaps rolling, sometimes it’s abating and sometimes it swells. Lord! the sepulchral voice of the djinns! Such din they raise! Let’s flee under the staircase to shelter dark and deep! My lamp is slowly failing and the shadows of the railing stretch as high as the ceiling, climbing up to the peak! Hellish their cries! they are screaming and crying! Horrible swarm urged on by the North Wind no doubt, o heaven! my home has been invaded. See how the walls bend beneath this dark force. Hear the house scream, it’s collapsing and leaning, and one may say its foundation’s careening, chased like a leaf swirling wild through the air, the wind drives their dance with its turbulent spin! Prophet! if your hand can save me from these dark demons of the night, I’ll bend my bare head down so gladly before holy censers’ perfume! Grant that on the doors of the faithful doomed will be their infernal sighings, and in vain scrape tips of their beating wings grating on the dark window panes! Of their wings in the distance their clamor now recedes. Weakening over the meadows, so feeble one might think one hears only a grasshopper’s cry in voice so thin or the sparkling sound of hailstones on a roof old and worn. Djinns so funereal, sons of decay, swirl in the darkness, darkness skipping away; their swarm is groaning; such a deep moaning, like a murmuring of waves we cannot see. Fading softly as it dies, like a ripple ’gainst the shore; like lamenting nearly silent of a saint for one who’s dead. One doubts, at night, I listen: all flee, all passes; erased all trace of din. - - - - - - - - - - Richmond Choral Society is excited to hold virtual rehearsals via ZOOM this Fall 2020 season. New members welcome! Please visit richmondchoral.org for more information Next virtual rehearsal is MONDAY, November 9th @ 7pm We look forward to meeting you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvgbJPHnnnI

Times are tough, but music serves to remind us of all the "bright and beautiful" to be found in the world if we stop to acknowledge it! Song: "All Things Bright and Beautiful" (Rutter) performed by The Tabernacle Choir (2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY9G00WWUVI... Richmond Choral Society is excited to hold virtual rehearsals via ZOOM this Fall 2020 season. New members welcome! Please visit richmondchoral.org for more information Next virtual rehearsal is MONDAY, OCTOBER 26th @ 7pm We look forward to meeting you!

One way to group sing without spreading your aerosols...Stay Safe! Song: "Hallelujah Chorus" (Handel) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRhjWdr-LAA... Richmond Choral Society is excited to hold virtual rehearsals via ZOOM this Fall 2020 season. New members welcome! Please visit richmondchoral.org for more information Next virtual rehearsal is MONDAY, OCTOBER 26th @ 7pm We look forward to meeting you!

Happy Fall! Song: "Autumn" from The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7hGiZ579cs... Richmond Choral Society is excited to hold virtual rehearsals via ZOOM this Fall 2020 season. New members welcome! Please visit richmondchoral.org for more information Next virtual rehearsal is MONDAY, OCTOBER 12th @ 7pm We look forward to meeting you!

ANNOUNCEMENT: We are excited to share that RCS has resumed biweekly rehearsals via virtual means in hopes of an early Spring 2021 performance. NEW MEMBERS WELCOME! If you like to sing and are interested in becoming a member, now is a great time to take advantage of the opportunity to see what we’re all about, meet our members, and join us as we rehearse a variety of holiday choral repertoire!... AUDITIONS: Auditions via ZOOM with RCS’s Music Director, Marina Alexander, can be scheduled by emailing [email protected]. We look forward to meeting you! RCS regards the safety of its members as top priority, and will remain virtual until our New York State, CDC and DOH guidelines confirm in-person gatherings/rehearsals are permitted. In the meantime, we are grateful to be able to keep our wonderful choral community strong, seeing each other and singing together via ZOOM, as we look forward to the time we can safely make music together again.

Greetings from Richmond Choral Society! Music is Everywhere, as shown in the cartoon image below. We hope you continue to find music all around you! ... Have a great week! (Source: musiciantee)

Greetings from Richmond Choral Society! We hope you enjoyed a nice holiday weekend. This gives "Cat Choir" a whole new meaning!... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0abfTrxjX-4 Stay safe & keep cool!

Greetings from Richmond Choral Society! We hope you are all well. RCS is very much here and working on when, where and how to return our programming to you as soon as it is safe.... Meanwhile, Enjoy A Place in the Choir! Stay Safe! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTKJUxl8TL4

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Did you know? This Spring 2020, Richmond Choral Society and Staten Island Philharmonic are collaborating to celebrate Beethoven's 250th anniversary! Save the date: Sunday, May 17th @ 4pm at St. Peter's Church. Details to follow! Source: absadmin

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We're filling up quickly! Register to reserve your spot for the Vocal Mastery workshop today!

RCS is excited to host a Vocal Mastery workshop this Spring led by Chrissellene Petropoulos on Saturday, March 28th from 10am-3pm at New Dorp Moravian Church. Limited spots available so be sure to register via email or phone!