GREENVILLE, IL – The Greenville Choral Union will begin vocal rehearsals for its Seventy-Seventh Anniversary Season on Tuesday, September 18 at 7:00 p.m.  Rehearsals will be held in the Whitlock Music Center Recital Hall on the Greenville College campus (formerly known as the Greenville Free Methodist Church)  located at the corner of College Avenue and Elm Street.

Anniversary Concert Planned

    This year’s concert marks the seventy-seventh annual performance of George Frideric Handel’s oratorio Messiah in Greenville.  In addition to Messiah, the 125-voice Choral Union and 50-piece orchestra will perform the “Gloria” from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Mass in B Minor.  The B Minor Mass was written over the last twenty years of the composers’ life and is one of the greatest choral-orchestral masterworks in the history of Western art music.  This year’s presentation will also feature vocal soloists from St. Louis, Minneapolis and Chicago as well as instrumental soloists from the St. Louis area.  The concert will take place on Sunday, December 2, 2007 at 4:00 p.m. in the Whitlock Music Center Recital Hall at Greenville College. 

    Membership in the Choral Union is open to all vocalists who are high school age or older.  For more information, contact Dr. Jeff Wilson (Phone: 618-664-6561; E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ), Associate Professor of Music at Greenville College and Music Director of the Greenville Choral Union.

    Greenville College is a four-year Christian liberal arts school located in Greenville, Ill., with over 1450 traditional and adult students. Founded in 1892, it is affiliated with the Free Methodist Church. For further information please visit www.greenville.edu.

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