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Poised to enter its 61st season, the Chorus pro Musica has built a superb reputation as one of the great choruses of New England. Known for innovative programming and high quality performances, Chorus pro Musica has collaborated with such famed organizations as the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Philharmonic, the Boston Ballet, and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Recently, CpM has sung at Symphony Hall, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center.

Come to our Summer Sings, August 3rd through 24th, on Monday nights 7:30–10 pm, at Old South Church, Copley Square, Boston!

Information on past concerts this season:

Information about recent previous seasons can be found in the archive.


 

DR. BETSY BURLEIGH IS NEXT MUSIC DIRECTOR OF CHORUS PRO MUSICA

May 4, 2009:  Chorus pro Musica is proud to announce the appointment of Dr. Betsy Burleigh to be the chorus's fifth Music Director in its sixty year history. Dr. Burleigh will assume her duties at the close of the current season in June. She succeeds Jeffrey Rink, who led the chorus with distinction for 17 years until his departure last fall to accept the Mattie Kelly Distinguished Endowed Teaching Chair in Music and Conducting at Northwest Florida State College and to lead the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra as the symphony's full-time conductor and music director.

Burleigh is Music Director of the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, a renowned 115-voice chorus founded in 1908 that is the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's chorus of choice, assuming that position from Robert Page in 2006. She is also completing her eleventh season as Assistant Director of Choruses for the Cleveland Orchestra, and is currently Professor and Coordinator of Choral and Vocal Studies at Cleveland State University.

For more details, see the press release.


 

Click the link below to hear an excerpt from a past Chorus pro Musica performance (in MP3 format).

Four Motets (Ubi Caritas, Tota pulchra es, Tu es Petrus, Tantum ergo) by Maurice Durufle. Recorded at the Church of the Advent, Boston on November 4, 2004

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NEW DVD OF CHORUS PRO MUSICA IN WAR REQUIEM

On July 27, 1963 at Tanglewood, Chorus pro Musica sang the US premiere of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Erich Leinsdorf. A DVD of that performance has just been released by Video Artists International, part of a series of BSO telecasts from the late 1950s and early 1960s. The DVD is reviewed in the March 9 Boston Globe by David Perkins. Perkins says, “Alfred Nash Patterson’s Chorus pro Musica is well coached and charged up.” His conclusion: “For years, Britten’s own 1963 Decca recording was the only one on the market. Others have followed, but none, not even Britten’s, is superior to this.” There is a clip of this concert on YouTube.

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