Aloha everyone, I’ve already celebrated my 80th birthday, and I’ve picked 21 carols from the Oxford book 100 Carols for Choirs for our December concert. The first half of the concert will be carols arranged by David Willcocks (including three with audience participation), and the second half will be carols composed or arranged by John…
Hilo Community Chorus members are traveling to NYC in 2020 to sing at Carnegie Hall with DCINY . Space may be still available; if you would like to join our group, do not contact DCINY directly as stated in the image above; instead please contact HCC music director Tom McAlexander: tommac@hawaii.rr.com or (808) 985-7192
The Hilo Community Chorus will present its annual holiday concert of carols and seasonal music at 2 PM Saturday, Dec. 2, at First United Protestant Church. Tom McAlexander, the group’s longtime musical director, will conduct the performance and Walter Greenwood will accompany on organ and piano. Admission is free. The concert features the hauntingly beautiful…
from Tom McAlexander, Music Director: “It was a cold January in 2008 when 25 singers from the Hilo Community Chorus (along with another 18 from the University, of which we were still a part), traveled to New York for the inaugural concert of Distinguished Concerts International New York (DCINY) featuring music of (Sir) Karl Jenkins…
“…What it’s like when human beings are in harmony….that’s a lesson for our times and for all times….” —John Rutter, quoted from the above video on “The Importance of Choir” (please press the “play” button on the above image to watch). We will be singing John Rutter’s Magnificat as the first half of our December…
The Hilo Community Chorus is a non-profit 501(c)(3) non-auditioned chorus. Anyone who loves choral singing and is willing to devote two hours each week in rehearsals is invited to join. The full Chorus generally performs two major concerts a year: a concert of seasonal songs and carols in December, and a classical music concert in…