Keep Coro Allegro Going!

Support Boston's LGBTQ+ & allied chorus until we can sing for you once more.

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Thanks to the moving support of our Coro Family, Boston's LGBTQ+ and allied classical chorus is pulling together to make it through.

Until it's safe to share live music again, Coro Allegro will be far from silent. We invite you to join us as we raise our voices in new ways to fulfill our mission of building bridges between disparate communities through artistic excellence. 

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Join us for our 2020-2021 Virtual Season

Inspiration • Innovation • Collaboration

November 9, 2020

Coro Allegro is honored to perform works by Viktor Ullmann and Peter Eldridge for the Terezín Music Foundation's Virtual 2020 GALA, as well as to collaborate with members of the Boston Community Gospel Choir, led by Brother Dennis Slaughter, and the Brookline High School Camerata, led by Michael Driscoll..

Coming soon!

A retrospective series amplifying the voices of Black artists, advocates, composers, and conductors with whom we have been proud to collaborate.  Join us as we look back at works we have performed together in the context of the current Black Lives Matter movement. 
Featuring Fred Onovwerosuoke • Phil Lima • Reginald Mobley • Jonathan Q. Barryman and others.

Launching this fall: 

  

The Coro Academy will offer courses for singers in music theory/harmony and solfege, vocal training masterclasses with beloved Coro Allegro Guest Artists, in collaboration with the Kodály Music Institute,

Then in the spring, we invite singers and audience members alike to join us for a deep dive into the issues behind Here I Am: I Am Here, by composer Andrea Clearfield. This work, commissioned by Coro Allegro singers, is based on letters by LGBTQ+ advocates affirming transgender youth and survivors of conversion therapy.  Meet the people behind the music, hear their stories, explore the power of music and personal narrative, then join us in taking action as we write our own letters to affirm LGBTQ+ youth.

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Join us!

Coro Allegro is Boston's LGBTQ+ and allied classical chorus. Under the baton of Artistic Director David Hodgkins, Coro Allegro is known for award-winning programming, powerful commissions, and critically acclaimed performances and recordings of works by diverse classical and contemporary composers. We are proud to offer a welcoming, affirming and supportive environment for performers and audiences alike.

Experience that pride and community for yourself. Join the Coro Family of friends, allies and members of the LGBTQ+ community as a singer, supporter, or volunteer.

Learn more

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Thanks for your support of the
Coro Pride Virtual House Party

Thank you for celebrating Global Pride with Boston's LGBTQ+ and allied classical chorus. 
PROCEEDS benefit the
Keep Coro Going campaign,
plus 3 community partners advocating for Black Lives, locally, nationally, and internationally:
The Transgender Emergency Fund
The Equal Justice Initiative
John Abdallah Wambere aka Long Jones'
Ugandan LGBTQ+ Refugees Covid Response Fund

Learn more at the Coro Blog.

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Dear Friends,

in March 2019, long before the pandemic silenced our concert halls and our communities poured into the streets to cry out for justice following the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd, Coro Allegro and the Heritage Chorale of New Haven joined forces for a concert called America/We Need to Talk . . .

. . . Coro Allegro stands with the Black community in turn. To our Black singers and audience members, and all the Black artists with whom we have the honor to make music, please know that we support you. Even if we can't sing together right now, we will still raise our voices with you to call for justice, to hold you safe, and to affirm that Black lives matter. 

Equal Justice Initiative founder Bryan Stevenson lays out with clarity why America needs to talk about race and its role in our history:

"We have been practicing silence about our history for a very long time. In this country, we don’t talk about slavery, we don’t talk about lynching, we don’t talk about segregation, we have a hard time talking about race . . .We react to the effort of trying to talk about it as if that’s the threat. Not our continued silence."

Fred Onovwerosuoke closed his Cantata of the People with these words by his friend, the late Poet Laureate of St. Louis, Michael Castro: "We breathe the same air, [we] want the same things, we need to talk." 

For the full statement, links to support our partners, and an extraordinary video by the Intercultural Music Initiative, visit the Coro Allegro blog.

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Blossoms. The Wind Brings Them Down.

Enjoy this photo shared by Coro photographer Gillian Gordon, as part of her series Ghost Light Series: Illuminated Productions: 
"I have revived my production photos from Greater Boston theatres. These past production photos are layered with images which could have inspired the stories being told on stage. These reimagined scenes make me wonder what images and stories from this uncertain time will inspire future theatre productions. Time will tell!"

"Coro Allegro, Boston’s LGBTQ+ and allied chorus, performs “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from Carousel at the end of  We Will Not Be Erased: A Veteran’s Day Concert Honoring the Service of All, Sunday, November 10th, 2019 at Sanders Theatre, Cambridge. Photo by Gillian Gordon

Although its issue of domestic abuse is beyond dated to most, the Carousel score is stunning. Anytime I think about Carousel or see blossoms falling from a tree this simple conversation between Julie and Billy runs through my mind:

Julie: I can smell them. Can you? The blossoms. The wind brings them down.

Billy: There ain’t much wind tonight. Hardly any.

Coro Allegro performed such a beautiful rendition of “You’ll Never Walk Alone." Wishing you all clear skies and calm winds —try to smell some of the blossoms before the wind brings them all down."  —Gilian Gordon, Photographer

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Letters to our Children:
Voices across Generations for LGBTQ+ Youth

NEW DATE TBA

ANDREA CLEARFIELD
Here I Am: I Am Here [World Premiere]
RONALD PERERA
When Music Sounds
OJA GJEILO
Dark Night of the Soul
Luminous Night of the Soul

13th Annual Daniel Pinkham Award:
Sam Brinton of the Trevor Project

Learn More

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Shofar: In Memoriam

NEW DATE TBA
Sanders Theatre, Cambridge

Read the Concert Preview in JewishBoston.com:
 "Shofar is a powerful metaphor embedded in choral music" 

Featuring
New England Classical Singers

ROBERT STERN, Shofar
Teresa Wakim, soprano • Jonas Budris, tenor 
Aaron Engebreth, baritone • David Kravitz, baritone 

RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Five Mystical Songs
Ron Williams, Baritone

JOHANNES BRAHMS, Nänie, Opus 82

In memory of Robert Stern, Sanford Sylvan, and Donald Wilkinson

Learn More

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"A gem.... hope, freedom, justice and joy—all evident in the sound and faces of the soloists and choristers" 
—Boston Musical Intelligencer, "Deep and Profound along the Charles"

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Look for Coro's upcoming album

In the spring of 2018, Coro Allegro and Artistic Director David Hodgkins were proud to record We Are Here at Futura Productions. The album features Kareem Roustom's Rage Against the tyrant(s) and Eric Banks' Aluta continua: The passion of David Kato Kisule, two works by American composers bearing witness to international human rights. Keep an eye out for the full album in 2019!

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EBT Card to Culture Program

EBT cardholders are eligible for $5 tickets, up to 4 tickets per card per concert. Please enter the discount code “COROEBT” in your shopping cart, then enter the first six digits of the EBT Card number in the “Comments” section at checkout. Or order by phone: 617-236-4011 or buy discounted tickets at the door the day of the concert. This discount program is offered in collaboration with the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Executive Office of Health and Human Services' Department of Transitional Assistance. Learn more at www.mass.gov/ebt-card-to-culture.

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