After presenting our holiday concert for the 2019-2020 season, Among Angels, we began rehearsals for our planned Spring concert, Songs of the British Isles. Unfortunately the global COVID pandemic forced us to cancel the Spring concert, and our planned Summer concert as well.
We spent the pandemic year of 2021 learning all twenty choruses of Handel’s Messiah with individual study, guided practice videos made by our director, and weekly Zoom meetings to check in with each other and socialize. We resumed live rehearsals in Fall 2021 with strict health safety protocols, and resumed our work on the British Isles repertoire. After a two year delay, that concert was presented in March 2022.
Immediately afterward we began rehearsals for Messiah, singing the choruses together as a group for the first time. Thanks to all that practicing we did at home during our 2021 “virtual season,” Messiah came together quickly resulting in a very successful performance on June 12, 2022 with soloists and orchestra of period instruments.