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Girls Choir marks its 30th year with concert
The Chattanooga Girls Choir will celebrate its 30th anniversary with a concert Saturday night, May 13, in the Tivoli Theatre. Its theme, “Bloom and Grow Forever,” is taken from the lyrics of “Edelweiss,” the signature song with which the Girls Choir often closes its concerts.
Alumnae are invited to join the singers onstage as LuAnn Holden and John Dyer conduct them in pieces that have become CGC favorites such as “Music Down in My Soul,” “The Storm is Passing Over,” “Chattanooga Choo Choo” and a special arrangement of “How Can I Keep From Singing” by Penny Tullock.
The choir will premiere a new arrangement commissioned by the CGC with support of the Performing Arts League of Chattanooga and private donors.
Alumnae interested in participating can attend the alumnae rehearsal on Saturday at 10 a.m. Contact the choir office for more.
Founded in 1987, the Chattanooga Girls Choir offers vocal music education and performance opportunities to young women in the Chattanooga area. The choir is composed of nearly 130 girls in grades 1-12 , representing approximately 60 area public and private schools.
The Chattanooga Girls Choir received the 1991 Treble Choir Award at the International Youth and Music Festival in Vienna, Austria; first-place awards at the 1993 and 1999 International Children’s Choir Festival in Bournemouth, England; one of two awards presented at t he 1994 Princeton University Invitational Choir Festival; and a silver medal at the 2012 World Choir Games.
In 1995, the choir was broadcast worldwide singing Mass at St. Peter’s Basil- ica at the Vatican in Rome, and the girls sang for Mass at St. Peter’s again in 2005.
The choir has sung at San Marcos Cathedral in Venice, Italy; in Coventry Cathedral and Westminster Abbey in England; in Smetana Hall in the Czech Republic; in the Duomo (Cathedral of Florence) in Italy; in Brucknerhaus in Austria; in historic Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg, Va.; at Lincoln Center and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City.