VOICES Programs

For the Community,

VOICES not only holds concerts exemplifying the best in vocal music performance—old and new, familiar and cutting edge, but also includes information designed to educate the public about the compositional aspects of choral music. The conductor often begins a performance by demonstrating various musical elements audiences will hear, as well as explaining any special instruments or techniques involved.

VOICES strives to interest audiences through presenting information in an engaging way and inviting audiences to sing specific folk tunes or carols.

Community Outreach Concerts

Click on the ">" to play a film by Albert Kahn featuring VOICES outreach concerts in 2007.

VOICES performs one-hour community outreach concerts from time to time for audiences that might not otherwise hear good choral singing — for example, retirement homes and villages, Trenton Psychiatric Hospital residents, small town churches and other intimate settings.

(Please call us to confirm dates and times.)

Tuesday, October 30, 2007, 6:30 p.m.
VOICES Chorale at D'Youville Manor Chapel at Grey Nuns, Yardley, PA

Tuesday, November 7, 2007, 7:00 p.m.
VOICES Chorale at Attleboro - The Brunswick Retirement Center, Langhorne, PA

Tuesday, November 13, 2007, 7:30 p.m.
VOICES Sotto Voce at Annual Memorial Service, Chandler Hall Assisted Living, Newtown, PA

Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 6:45 p.m.
Sotto Voce Ensemble at Twining Village Retirement Center, Richboro, PA

View a sample program.

VOICES expresses our sincere appreciation and thanks to the Genuardi Family Foundation and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for funding a series of outreach concerts and musical opportunities for retirement communities in Pennsylvania. VOICES has also enjoyed performing at Meadow Lakes and Monroe Village retirement communities in New Jersey.

Sotto Voce at Twining Village, February 2007

This project (VOICES COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM) was supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency, through the Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA), its regional arts funding partnership. State government funding comes through an annual appropriation by Pennsylvania’s General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PPA is administered in this region by the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance.

The Genuardi Family Foundation is a private foundation that supports direct providers of education, health, human services and culture in the greater Philadelphia area.

Building relationships...

VOICES is a contributing member of the arts community, and collaborates with other arts organizations including:

• the Greater Trenton Symphony Orchestra
• In Praise of Women
• Hopewell Valley High School
• Hunterdon Symphony Orchestra
• Newtown Chamber Orchestra
• Lehigh Valley Gay Mens Chorus
• Walt Whitman Arts Center (Camden, New Jersey)
• Princeton Homeschool Choir
• Princeton Symphony Orchestra
• Music Together
• Princeton Pro Musica
• Riverside Symphonia
• Teamwork Dance
• Genteel Companions
• Chorkreis St. Sebald Choir (Erlangen, Germany)
• Grounds for Sculpture
• Westminster Conservatory of Music
• Rider University
• Yue Yue Chinese Chorus
• Mid-America Productions

The VOICES Board of Trustees actively considers ADA issues to fully include the disabled at rehearsals and program events. Write us at info@voiceschorale.org or call us at 609-637-9383 if you have questions or need special accommodations.

VOICES offers reduced ticket prices to senior citizens, students and children and scholarships to singers to allow participation which might otherwise not be possible.

Benefitting the community...

In March 2007, Sotto Voce performed Fern Hill, based on Dylan Thomas’s evocative poem—recollections and reflections of his summers on a farm as a boy, as part of a concert to benefit the St. Michael's Preservation Project of the D&R Greenway Land Trust.