Thomas Beveridge, Artistic Director 

P.O. Box 6691, McLean, VA 22106-6691 

president@newdominion.org

www.newdominion.org, 202-244-7191

                                              FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

                              NEW DOMINION CHORALE TO PRESENT CHRISTMAS PROGRAM

On Sunday, December 15, 2024, at 4:00 p.m., New Dominion Chorale and Orchestra will present GLORIA! GLORIA!, a

program of music appropriate for the Christmas season. The concert will take place at Saint Luke Catholic Church, 7001

Georgetown Pike in McLean, Virginia.

The concert will be conducted by Artistic Director Thomas Beveridge. The featured soloists, both well known to

Washington area audiences, are Mandy Brown, soprano, and Patrick Cook, tenor. Accompanying the chorus, along with

the orchestra, is Frank Conlon on organ.

Mr. Beveridge has chosen a varied program, much of which is in his own arrangements, but principal of which is the

“Gloria” movement from Giacomo Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, written when the composer was only 22 years old.

Mr. Beveridge’s special arrangements, written for the Philadelphia Singers’ award-winning recordings, are “O

Tannenbaum/Adeste Fideles” and “In Dulcio Jubilo/Angels We Have Heard on High.” Other works include three carols

from the Spanish tradition and works by Holst, Berlioz, Adam, and Billings. Four selections from Handel’s MESSIAH

complete the program: “Ev’ry Valley,” “And the Glory of the Lord,” “Rejoice Greatly,” and “For Unto Us a Child Is Born.”

The program concludes with several carols sung with audience participation.

New Dominion Chorale, now in its 34th year, was founded by Thomas Beveridge. It has been hailed in the pages of The

Washington Post as “opulent, precise and powerful.” It is unique among large choral societies in not requiring singers to

audition, yet it has performed most of the standard works for chorus and orchestra and premieres of Mr. Beveridge’s

compositions, principally his YIZKOR REQUIEM, a unique synthesis of Jewish and Christian rituals, which has received

multiple performances in the United States and Europe, including recordings by The Choral Arts Society of Washington,

conducted by Norman Scribner, and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, conducted by Sir Neville Marriner, both of

which were recorded on the Vox label.

Tickets will be available at the door or through www.newdominion.org: $40 general admission, $35 seniors 62+, and $20

youth, with open seating in the concert hall. There is free parking at this event. For more information, please go to

www.newdominion.org, or email president@newdominion.org, or call 202-244-7191.

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New Dominion Chorale is a 501(c)(3) organization supported in part by grants from ArtsFairfax, the Dallas Morse Coors

Foundation for the Performing Arts, the William & Karen Tell Foundation, and McLean Community Foundation.