Season 2024-2025
Celebrating Our 60th Anniversary
Join us as we celebrate Ars Choralis’s 60th anniversary and our contribution to the musical life of Woodstock and Ulster County. To highlight this achievement, we’ve planned an ambitious season that includes four programs throughout the year and includes two or three additional small events looking back on our history and culminating in a “Festival” Month in June.
Time Was
December 14, 2024, 7 pm
Holy Cross/Santa Cruz Church
Kingston
December 15, 2024, 4 pm
Overlook United Methodist Church
Woodstock
On December 14 & 15, 2024, the season starts off with Time Was, a story concert that captures the spirit of the holiday season through multicultural music and traditions that bring people together during December celebrations. Like It’s a Wonderful Life (Ars Choralis’s musical version of the familiar film), the story is based on real world and community events from the 1940’s to present day and is told through music and spoken word.
Together We Rise
December 31, 2024, 6 pm
Old Dutch Church
272 Wall Street
Kingston, NY
As has been a recent tradition, we will present a New Year’s Eve Concert Together We Rise in partnership with the City of Kingston and Old Dutch Church. This concert of love and light is designed to uplift the spirit with words and music recognizing the beauty and wonder of our common humanity. It is inspired by the April 8, 2024 eclipse and a song by Ana Egge, with the words, “In that moment, looking up, we were one.” Coming after a major election, we offer a concert of love that lifts our spirits toward the light.
Fiat Lux
March 29, 2025, 7 pm
Riverview Missionary Baptist Church
Kingston
March 30, 2025, 4 pm
Overlook United Methodist Church
Woodstock
Our March 2025 concert, Fiat Lux (Let There Be Light) features Fiat Lux by John Beeman. The composer uses the Latin creation text from Genesis and later juxtaposes it against English texts about the struggles to end repression. It ends hopefully with “A new day is dawning, the darkness has broken.” Also featured in this concert is Joel Thompson’s The Seven Last Words of the Unarmed. While the concert deals with difficult subjects, the overall musical experience is one of hope, healing and love.
Festival Month of June 2025 – 60th Anniversary Celebration
Ars Choralis: The Inside Story
A Celebration of 60 Years of Song!
June 7, 2025
Overlook United Methodist Church
233 Tinker Street
Woodstock, NY
Ars Choralis celebrates 60 years of music making in the Hudson Valley with a free concert. Selections include favorites of Ars Choralis Singers and audiences over the years as well as speakers telling stories and remembrances of their time in Ars Choralis. Highlights include an appearance by the Quarantinis and a slide show of members, programs and special events. We welcome all former singers to attend and be recognized.
Fauré Requiem
June 21 & 22, 2025
Maverick Concert Hall
120 Maverick Road
Woodstock, NY
Our 60th Anniversary Season closes with two performances with orchestra of the Fauré Requiem and a newly commissioned work in honor of Ars Choralis’s 60th anniversary by composer Alaina Ferris, In Praise of Dignity at Maverick Concert Hall in Woodstock on June 21 and 22, 2025.