Performances for
     the 2008-2009 Season

It is a pleasure to bring you three concerts that include a wide variety of choral works performed in several different venues.

The Paramount, located on the Downtown Mall, is the venue for our Christmas concert. This season we have scheduled the concert for December 20 - close to Christmas, at a time when traffic will be lighter and parking easier for the local community. From the quiet to the festive, sacred to secular, the Society will perform selections to get everyone into the holiday spirit.  Included is Mack Wilberg's new composition, Gloria in Excelsis; a Nigerian Christmas carol, Bethlehem; Hector Berlioz' Shepherd's Farewell; perennial audience favorite, A Musicological Journey Through the Twelve Days of Christmas. The audience will be invited to sing along with the Chorus for a few rousing carols. To accommodate young and old in our continually growing audience, we present two performances:  afternoon at 3:00pm and in the evening at 8:00pm.

On March 15, 2009, join the Oratorio Society for Franz Joseph Haydn's The Creation. The performance will take place in the Dickinson Fine & Performing Arts Center at Piedmont Virginia Community College.

Our final concert of the season is on May 31, 2009 at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Performing Arts Center of Charlottesville (a facility of the Charlottesville Public Schools).