Get ready to laugh out loud as we celebrate music’s humorous side! Chromatica has chosen a whole range of comedic classics that illustrate music’s unique ability to amuse while still providing excellent choral performance. Chromatica wants its audience to laugh with them as they cover a range of compositions from madrigals to the baroque, from oratorios to Gilbert and Sullivan and from lieders to musical theatre. No significant musical genre has been left unscathed!
The concerts include madrigals Fair Phyllis and Fyer, Fyer. A series of musical spoofs include Turn off your phone to the tune of Pachelbel’s canon and a piano solo by Chromatica’s outstanding accompanist Julie Rieth revisiting PDQ Bach, a Peter Schickele spoof series that began in 1965. The PDQ Bach focus continues with The Seasonings, a spoof of Handel’s Messiah and Haydn’s The Seasons. Duet for Two Cats is set to music by Rossini. A Few Gentle Admonitions outspoofs Gilbert and Sullivan (as if one could). And of course Men in Tights. There’s plenty more. These concerts provide Chromatica with a unique and humorous repertoire. And audiences have certainly heard nothing like it before…..
“Sometimes in choral music we take ourselves too seriously. These concerts are our attempt to reverse this trend. The pieces are inventive and musically complex as well as humorous. I hope our audiences enjoy them as much as we have in presenting them” said David Huff, founding artistic director of Chromatica.
Concert tickets:
Tickets are $30 for adults, $10 for students, and children 10 and under are admitted free. For concert tickets and to find out more about Chromatica, visit our website at www.chromaticachorale.org. Tickets for all concerts are also available at the door. For a more personal look, you can find us on Instagram (@chromaticachorale) or at Chromatica on Facebook.
About Chromatica:
Chromatica Chorale was founded in 2011 and now includes 32 men and women singers. It has performed 26 prior series of ticketed concerts in the East Bay, attracting large and enthusiastic audiences. It performed the world premiere of Transfigurations, a major commission composed by Grammy-winning composer Christopher Tin with lyrics by Charles Anthony Silvestri in April 2024.
Led by David Huff, an outstanding director and operatic tenor who has sung both in New York and San Francisco and accompanied by the exceptional pianist and assistant director Julie Rieth, it seeks to perform challenging pieces at a high level of professionalism.