Collaborative choir concert set for Thursday, March 28

Penn High School’s Viva Voce choir will perform performing a collaborative concert with the Penn Chamber Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 28, 2019. The event will be held in Penn’s Center for Performing Arts. 

The concert should be less than an hour. Tickets are $5 if purchased online, and $6 at the door. Seating is general admission. 

The concert will begin with five choral pieces and then conclude with Franz Schubert's Mass in G, a 25-minute work for choir and orchestra featuring three soloists. The soloists are Carol Shamory (soprano – one of our voice teachers), Tom Coe (baritone – former Penn Choir director and Director of Choir at LaPorte High School), and Penn Director of Choir Andrew Nemeth singing tenor. Schubert wrote the piece in 1815 when he was only 18 years old.

Penn Orchestra Director Anne Tschetter will be conducting the Schubert Mass in G.

Years ago, the Penn Choir program had a concert series known as the "Sacred Concert," and it was later changed to the "Classic Concert." The Penn Fine Arts Academy is reviving this concert series known as the Classic Concert, wherein Viva Voce will be performing classic repertoire of both sacred and secular nature. One of the main reasons for reviving this series is because it allows Penn’s Viva Voce to collaborate with other musicians, both from within and outside of Penn. We have also collaborated with Penn Jazz Band in years past.