Recent Past Concerts

Singers' Club Hit Parade

May 18, 2008

A concert of favorite music from recent seasons. The program will range widely in style and mood, from Irving Berlin’s lighthearted Puttin’ on the Ritz and Aaron Copland’s Ching-A-Ring Chaw to stirring pieces like Joseph Martin’s The Awakening and Randall Thompson’s The God Who Gave Us Life Gave Us Liberty (from “The Testament of Freedom”). Captivating works include Franz Biebl’s Ave Maria and Bring Him Home from “Les Miserables.” A special feature of the concert was performances by winners of recent S. Livingston Mather Scholarship Competitions.

Let's Get Away From It All!

March 15, 2007

Christmas Concert

December 8, 2007

The concert featured Benjamin Britten's The Company of Heaven, a beautiful cantata for SATB chrous, orchestra and narrators. Vocal soloists for this work were Annie Chon and Timonty Mussard. Plus, there was a generous helping of holiday favorites, including new settings of carols paried with familar arrangements.

On With The Show

May 19, 2007

Sailing on Irish Seas

March 17, 2007

A Dickens of a Christmas!

December 8 and 10, 2006

Hats Off to Jazz!

May 19, 2006

The Hills Are Alive

March 17, 2006

Christmas Classics

December 9, 2005

Songs My Mother Loved
. . . and Some She Didn’t

March 14, 2005

Island Breezes

March 19, 2005

Christmas Around the World

March 19, 2004

Synergy

May 21, 2004

The Singers’ Club closes its 111th season with the presentation of Synergy, a concert filled with artistic combinations. Joanne Uniatowski sings Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody with the chorus and a chamber orchestra. Timothy Mussard presents a sampling of operatic arias, and with soprano Annie Chon-Mussard and the chorus, a scene from Wagner’s Tannhäuser. A variety of choral works complete a remarkable musical evening.

Voices in Concert

March 19, 2004

Early settlers and the nation’s birth . . . adventurers and hardy pioneers . . . unique cultures of this varied land—the music of America presented with pride by Cleveland’s outstanding male chorus. Special guest: The Medina High School Men’s Chorus.

Bicentennial Season's Greetings

December 5, 2003

Featured work: Respighi’s Laud to the Nativity, with women's chorus and woodwind accompaniment . . . the nativity from the shepherd's perspective. Also carols and seasonal favorites in traditional and unusual settings compete the menu of this very delicious December feast!

Mark S. Doss & The Singers’ Club

May 16, 2003

Clevelander Mark S. Doss, world-famous bass/baritone, joins forces with The Singers' Club for a truly remarkable concert—favorites from the Broadway stage and opera house.

Of Thee We Sing

March 14, 2003

Early settlers and the nation’s birth . . . adventurers and hardy pioneers . . . unique cultures of this varied land—the music of America presented with pride by Cleveland's outstanding male chorus.

A Cleveland Christmas

December 6, 2002

Featured work: Respighi's Laud to the Nativity with women's chorus and woodwind accompaniment . . . the nativity from the shepherd’s perspective. Also carols and seasonal favorites in traditional and unusual settings will compete the menu of this very delicious December feast!

A Choral Spectrum . . .
Music in a Range of Familiar Styles

May 10, 2002

The Singers’ Club presents a concert of traditional choral works, spirituals, folk songs, and pop selections, including Wilbur Chenoweth’s Vocalise with soprano Nanette Canfield, and Houston Bright’s I Hear a Voice A-Prayin’. Also, guest artists Absolute, a popular a cappella collegiate group, and the graceful interpretive style of the Duffy Liturgical Dancers — a terrific program!

From Cathedral to Countryside

March 15, 2002

Sacred motets, secular partsongs of everyday work, love and play, Eben’s Missa Adventus et Quadragesimae plus the R. Nathaniel Dett Concert Choir from the Cleveland School of the Arts directed by William B. Woods.

Music for a Festive Season

December 7, 2001

Williams' Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Adler's Praise Thy Saving Power
settings of Frost’s Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
unique arrangements of Christmas favorites,
guest chorus: the Baldwin-Wallace College Singers.

And the Winner Is . . .

May 11, 2001

The Singers’ Club ended its 108th season with a finale of popular music. With this concert, we revisited the movie tunes, some of which garnered Oscar® awards on the way, that enchanted the country sung by The Singers’ Club . . . Cleveland's Outstanding Men's Chorus.

Old and New

March 9, 2001

The finest in traditional and contemporary men’s choral music presented by The Singers’ Club
and special guests, the University School Glee Club

A Singers' Christmas

December 8, 2000

A variety of Christmas selections, many with organ and brass accompaniment, plus Rutter’s Gloria with a special women’s chorus, and Britten’s Ceremony of Carols by the Ohio Boychoir.

William J. Foley, conductor

20th-Century Choral Classics

May 12, 2000

The Singers' Club presents two of the finest choral works of this century. In Leonard Bernstein's Chichester Psalms the Club is joined by the Ohio Boychoir, a counter-tenor soloist and chamber musicians. Then Isaiah Jackson and the Youngstown Symphony Orchestra and Chorus join the men's and boy's choruses in a robust performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana.

Thomas J. Shellhammer, conductor
Isaiah Jackson, conductor

Chichester Psalms: Leonard Bernstein
Carmina Burana: Carl Orff

The British Are Coming!

March 10, 2000

Enjoy an evening of music from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, all presented with the full-bodied flavor of an outstanding men's chorus. This concert features the stirring Agincourt Song Galway Piper Loch Lomond and other favorite folk songs.

Thomas J. Shellhammer, conductor

Christmas Through The Millennium

December 10, 1999

This enduring December tradition in Cleveland features a fascinating variety of Christmas music, from the plainsong of the Middle Ages and the brilliance of the Baroque to the rich sounds of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The Cleveland BoyChoir, featured ensemble

How Time Flies!

May 14, 1999

This entertaining look at the 20th century will feature vocal music by Sigmund Romberg, Rogers & Hammerstein, Lerner & Loewe, Frank Loesser, Irving Berlin, Steven Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jerry Herman, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, and others.

Carl Topilow, clarinet

Wine, Women, 'n Song

March 12, 1999

The concert is a mixture of songs about wine and women including a setting by Arthur Frackenpohl based on verses by Ogden Nash - Essays on Women. The second half is a mixture of nostalgic songs about subjects.

Sing We Noel

December 4, 1998

Traditional music with organ and brass accompaniment featuring The Cleveland BoyChoir under the direction of Bill Foley.