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Press Kit
![]() Thomas Beveridge, Artistic Director president@newdominion.org P.O. Box 6691, McLean, VA 22106-6691 www.newdominion.org 202-244-7191 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEW DOMINION CHORALE TO PRESENT HANDEL’S MESSIAH On Saturday, December
10, at 4:00 p.m., New Dominion Chorale will present Handel’s Messiah. The concert will take place at the Rachel
M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center at the Alexandria campus of
Northern Virginia Community College, 4915 East Campus Drive, Alexandria,
Virginia. Thomas
Beveridge, the Chorale’s Founder and Artistic Director, will lead the ensemble
of vocal soloists, 110-voice chorus, and chamber orchestra in selections from
Handel’s popular work, which is appropriate for the Christmas season. Four of the
Washington area’s best-known vocal soloists will be featured: Soprano Annie Schwartz, Mezzo Soprano Melissa
Kornacki, Tenor Jason Rylander, and Bass Bob McDonald. New Dominion
Chorale, now in its 32nd season, has distinguished itself amid the
crowded choral music scene in the Washington area. Praised by The Washington
Post as “opulent, precise and powerful,” it operates as a “singers’
cooperative” without paid management, and no auditions are required to join.
New Dominion Chorale has presented all of the large works for chorus and
orchestra by the major composers, as well as presenting the first performances
of works by Mr. Beveridge, notably his massive Symphony of Peace and his
Yizkor Requiem, which, since its premiere by the Chorale, has received
over 25 performances in the United States and Europe and has been recorded
twice for the Naxos label: by the Choral
Arts Society of Washington, directed by Norman Scribner, and by the chorus and
orchestra of St. Martin in the Fields, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner. In addition to its regular performances at the
Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center, the Chorale has also
appeared at Washington National Cathedral, The Washington Hebrew Congregation
and the Concert Hall of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Thomas
Beveridge, the Chorale’s Founder and Artistic Director, has had a distinguished
musical career and is recognized as one of the Washington area’s most versatile
musicians: solo singer, pianist,
teacher, conductor, and composer-arranger.
His 700 original compositions and arrangements have recently been
accepted by George Mason University for archival deposit in the University
library. Tickets for the
concert may be purchased in advance by going to www.newdominion.org and clicking on the Purchase Tickets
Here button. Tickets will also be
available at the door at the time of the performance for $35 general admission,
$30 seniors 62+, and $20 students under 18, with open seating in the concert
hall. Masks are optional for the
audience and required for the singers. There is free parking at this event. For more information, please go to www.newdominion.org or president@newdominion.org, or call 202-244-7191. ### New Dominion Chorale is a 501(c)(3) organization supported in part by grants from ARTSFAIRFAX, the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts.
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