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June, 2009 review article	All-Brahms A German Requiem, OP. 45 The Original London Version with Piano Four-Hands and String Sextet number 2 in G MAJOR, OP. 36
March and April, 2009	Music In Desperate Times Third series of performances at Cathedral Church of Saint John The Divine, Manhattan and in Berlin Germany.
December, 2008	Welcome Yule: Through a Stained Glass Window Musical portraits of Christmas scenes through the ages. The concert featured ancient carols performed by The Catskill Mountain Renaissance Consort, the Medieval Liturgical Drama of The Three Kings, Early American Shapenote songs and music of Samuel Barber, Morton Lauridson and others.
June, 2008 view postcard	*In a Green Cathedral* Inspired by the magic of the Maverick woods, and the imminence of the summer solstice, the concert included music of Faure (Pavane and Madrigal), Copland (Simple Gifts and The Promise of Living), Corigliano (Forever Young), among others.
March, 2008	*The Long Road Home* In this concert, the members of Ars Choralis honored the people of the Mississippi Delta and celebrated the rich contribution they have made to our American musical heritage. Nashville soul-singer Jonell Mosser added her magic to the concert composed of spirituals, gospel and Faure’s Requiem.
December, 2007	*Welcome Yule: Christmas in a Quiet Place* Guided by the texts, and based on the song, Quiet Place byJohn Hall, Johanna Hall and Jonell Mosser, this concert blended sacred and secular, classical and popular, familiar and unfamiliar music, fragments and whole pieces, into one seamless musical expression.
April, 2007	Music In Desperate Times repeated by popular demand in April 2007 at SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge NY and Woodstock Jewish Congregation, Woodstock NY
March, 2006	*Music in Desperate Times: Remembering the Women’s Orchestra of Birchenau* A choral concert set in the Holocaust featuring a small reconstruction of the Women’s Orchestra that played in the Camp at Birchenau during WWII. Their story was told with readings from their memoirs and histories, along with representative orchestral selections and choral commentary.
June, 2005 poster	Eight Cellos and a Guitar A concert of music derived from Spanish and Portuguese musical heritages, featuring Villa Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras and music of Fernando Sor, MichaelD.Mendoze, Jean Berger and others.
March, 2005	Handel’s Messiah Parts II and III with the Woodstock Chamber Orchestra.
December, 2004	Welcome Yule: Reveling in the Season A rich tapestry of carols, drama, poetry and dances woven into a holiday delight. Based on Christmas Revel Concerts across the country and abroad, Ars Choralis sang of snow-covered mountains and horse-drawn sleighs, presented the traditional boar’s-head, danced in the aisles and acted out a Mummer’s Play.
June, 2004 poster	A Renaissance Feast of Songs Concert-goers reveled in Renaissance music and the beauty of Fite's feat, on June 11th, 12th and 13th of 2004, at Opus 40 in Saugerties, NY. The 35-member chorus was joined by the Catskill Mountains Renaissance Consort, composed of recorders, krumhorn, bass viol, percussion and guitar. Audiences picnicked on the grass, enjoying the tunes of Morley, Campion, Gibbons,Henry VIII and others. Dressed in period costumes and singing in full ensemble, double chorus and small groups, Ars Choralis moved about the monument, exploring the many resonances of the rocks.
March, 2004	Quietude In sharp contrast to the preceding holiday concert, Ars Choralis turned its attention to music of reflection and beauty enhanced with poetry and interpretive dance.
June, 2003	Mysterium Solares (The Mystery of the Sun) Celebrating the return of the sun, set in the majestic art stonescape, Opus 40, the chorus moved from stone to lawn, voices echoing around the monument.
March, 2003	JS Bach and Sons The master and all of his sons came together for this concert of instrumental and choral works of J.S. Bach (Fifth Brandenburg Concerto and Lobet den Hern), J.C. Bach’s Kryie in D, movements from C.P.E. Bach’s Magnificat in D and harpsichord music of J.C. Bach (Sonata in F for Two Harpsichords).
December, 2003 invitation	Welcome Winter, Welcome Yule 2003 featured Ars Choralis in the world premiere of "Miracle In Bethlehem", a new musical setting of the Christmas story by Barbara Pickhardt and Johanna Hall. The Hudson Valley Youth Chorale, fresh from their appearances in Austria and Hungary, performed songs of the season. The 75 children created the holiday mood when they skipped in singing, tossing peppermints to the crowd. Bar Scott premiered a new a capella piece, “Snow”.
June, 2002 poster & pictures	Composer and Woodstock resident Peter Schickele and renowned pianist Justin Kolb are long time friends of Ars Choralis. Peter¹s remarkable Concerto for Piano and Chorus: The Twelve Months² is the perfect vehicle to bring composer, pianist and chorus together. Ars Choralis enjoyed its conversion into an orchestral voice supporting Kolb¹s brilliant piano pyrotechnics. The sylvan setting of historic Maverick Hall brought the performance to perfection.
March, 2002	Mozart’s Solemn Vespers with Woodstock Chamber Orchestra
December, 2002	Welcome Yule 2002: Magnificent Magnificats & More at Redeemer Lutheran Church, was the vocal ensemble¹s seventh annual Welcome Yule. It featured three groups from the Hudson Valley Youth Chorale. Ars Choralis set a mystical tone with four settings of the familiar Magnificat (song of Mary): Antiphonal master works by Renaissance composers Giovanni Gabrieli and Orlando Gibbons, Antonin Tuma¹s classically styled Magnificat in C, and "Mary in the Garden" by Johanna Hall and Barbara Pickhardt.
June, 2001 poster	Soul of America A concert designed to bring uniquely American music to audiences in Hungary and Austria. Included on the program were works by William Schuman, Samuel Barber, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, Brian Wilson and P.D.Q. Bach, among others.
June, 2001	*Messengers of Peace* A mix of music and spoken words, expressing the yearning for peace, this concert was first performed on the eve of the millennium in Kingston NY, repeated in Woodstock, NY on September 11th 2002, and in Budapest and Vienna on the chorus’ summer 2001 tour.
June, 2000 article & pictures	Henry Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas at the Hudson Valley art stonescape, Opus 40
June, 1999	From the Baltic to Bernstein This concert featured Bernsteins’s Chichester Psalms, and music written by composers living behind the iron curtain during the latter part of the 20th century.
June, 1998 article	*Honoring the Dream: A Tribute to MLK Jr.* With Alice Parker’s Sermon from the Mountain, Ars Choralis reached across the racial divide to include the gospel choir from Riverview Baptist Church, Kingston, New York with then-pastor, Willie Harden reading words of MLK in the first half. The Riverview Baptist Choir rocked the Maverick in the second half with their own gospel testimony.