Hilo Community Chorus is pleased to announce the start of our new season. Sessions begin tonight, August 21, 2023, with weekly rehearsals on Monday nights from 6:30-8:30pm, at Christ Lutheran Church located at 595 Kapiolani St., Hilo, HI 96720 Prospective new and returning members are encouraged to join us as we prepare for our Winter …
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
During the dedication concert for a new organ at the Church of the Holy Cross in 2007, a germ of an idea occurred to Tom McAlexander that the Church would be a great place for a Messiah sing-along. At intermission he shared that idea with then Palace Theater organist Bob Alder, whose only remark was, …
Rehearsals will begin on Monday, August 27, from 6:30- 8:30 PM at the UH-H rehearsal room (click link to view location in Google Maps). We will then meet each Monday evening (except Labor Day) until our December 1 concert. Come early to get your music, pay your dues/music fee, and find your seat. Dues are still …
Rehearsals begin August 27 for Fall Season, All Welcome Read More »
The first rehearsal for spring 2018 will be Monday, January 22, from 6:30 – 8:30 PM at the UH-Hilo rehearsal room (click link to open Google Maps window). Our Spring program will be a May joint concert with the University choruses. The exact date of the concert is not confirmed yet, but it will most likely …
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Aloha everyone, The music is here and we are ready to begin rehearsals for the fall. All we need is for the time to pass, as our first rehearsal will be Monday, August 28, at 6:30 pm at the UH-Hilo rehearsal room (click link to open Google Maps window). They’ve been working on the room during …
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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 …
2017 marks the 275th anniversary of the premiere of Handel’s Messiah. For the 1742 premiere of Messiah in Dublin, it is estimated that Handel had a combined ensemble of approximately 50 performers, with almost the same number of vocalists as instrumentalists. Experienced singers from the better church choirs made up the chorus; two different soloists …
Hilo Community Chorus members are invited to participate in the Jonathan Griffith Singers 10-day tour to Barcelona in July, 2017 (click this link for more information). The music is Verdi’s Requiem, and 2 performances are planned. Jonathan’s tours are always of the highest quality. Professional orchestras and soloists are featured. Participants stay in 4 and …