Summer Choral Festival

Summer Choral Festival 2024

Enjoy five days of singing outstanding sacred choral music at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Whitehouse Station, New Jersey.
Led by Festival director Jim Cole and co-conductors Sandy Hayes-Licitra and Bill Alford, you’ll sing with fellow choral singers from the Diocese of Metuchen and beyond. The Festival is open to choral singers of all skill levels ages 18 and up.

Our Week Together

Each day will start with a physical and vocal warmup. We’ll sing the music of Mozart, Stephen Paulus, Mendelssohn, Dan Forrest, Rollo Dilworth, Carl Schalk, Mack Wilberg and more. The Festival conductors will rehearse the repertoire on a rotating basis throughout the week. We will end the week on Sunday with a concert open to the public.

Our Lady of Lourdes
Our Lady of Lourdes Church houses a 1998 19-rank Randall Dyer pipe organ and a Steinway grand piano.

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Our repertoire list for the Festival:

Come, Christians, Join to Sing, arr. Gordon Young

The Gift to Be Simple, arr. Robert W. Schafer

Alleluia from Exsultate, Jubilate by W.A. Mozart, arr. David Patrick

The Road Home by Stephen Paulus

How Lovely Are the Messengers from St. Paul by Felix Mendelssohn

Ubi Caritas by Dan Forrest

Rise and Shine by Rollo Dilworth

In Thee Is Gladness, arr. Daniel Kallman

Christ Be Our Seed by Carl Schalk

How Firm a Foundation, arr. Mack Wilberg

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