81st Anniversary Season of Community Messiah Performance

Published: April 13, 2021

GREENVILLE, IL - The Greenville Choral Union will begin vocal rehearsals for its Eighty-first Anniversary Season on Tuesday, September 20 at 7:00 p.m. Rehearsals will be held in the James E. Wilson Recital Hall in the Whitlock Music Center on the Greenville College campus, (formerly known as the Greenville Free Methodist Church) located at the corner of College Avenue and Elm Street.

This year's concert marks the eighty-first annual performance of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah in Greenville. The 110-voice Choral Union and 50-piece orchestra will perform all of Part 1 of Messiah as well as Johann Sebastian Bach's Magnificat in D. In addition to local musicians, this year's presentation will feature professional instrumentalists and vocal soloists from St. Louis and Chicago. The concert will take place on Sunday, December 4, 2011 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: jeff.wilson@greenville.edu), Professor of Music at Greenville College and Music Director of the Greenville Choral Union.