100: Celebrating Kirke Mechem

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In a continued effort to meaningfully connect with fellow colleagues in the South Bay arts sphere, the Santa Clara Chorale’s 2024–25 season includes the return of its FESTIVAL OF CHOIRS, a day of togetherness and music-making that includes joint rehearsals, dynamic conductor exchanges, and a culminating public concert with proceeds benefiting a local charity.
Both Resounding Achord and Pariter Vocal Ensemble will be joining several other choirs in this day of festivities and community. Please join us for the evening concert where Resounding Achord will be singing Mi Voz by Carlos Cordero, Kyrie by Knut Nystedt, Elijah Rock by Jester Hairston, and Blow Ye the Trumpet by Kirke Mechem.
Date: Saturday, February 1, 2025, 8:00PM
Location: Sunnyvale Presbyterian Church, 728 W Fremont Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94087
Price: Pay as you can
Resounding Achord is again honored to perform in the For Love benefit concert for Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence (NDS). NDS is the premier domestic violence agency in Santa Clara County. It is the only stand-alone domestic violence agency and the largest provider of these services. Since 1971, NDS has helped thousands of survivors and families escape crisis and violence and into safety, stability, and self-sufficiency.
Resounding Achord will be joined by:
Date: Friday, March 14, 2025, 7:30 pm
Location: Campbell United Methodist Church, 675 Winchester Blvd, Campbell, CA 95008
More information soon. All concert proceeds are donated to Next Door Solutions.
Join us for Season of Celebration, a vibrant concert where music from diverse cultures fills the air with joy! Resounding Achord Productions invites you to experience the harmonious performances of our three incredible choirs: Chromatic Convergence, Pariter Vocal Ensemble, and Resounding Achord.
This concert features captivating pieces, including a modern arrangement of “Gaudete” by Michael Englehart, the lively “Kanaval” by Sydney Guillaume, and the enchanting “Solstice” by Taylor Scott Davis. Come celebrate the holidays with us and let the music lift up your spirits!
Date: December 15, 2024, 4:00 pm
Location: St. Francis Episcopal Church, 1205 Pine Ave, San Jose, CA 95125
Prices:
Adult: $25 online, $30 at the door;
College Students: $10
18 and under: Free
Ticket available at the door.
Resounding Achord is pleased to join Nova Vista Symphony and guest artists Vivace Youth Chorus to present Befana: a Christmas Fable by Kirke Mechem. This beautiful concert opera for orchestra, adult choir, youth chorus, and soloists tells the tale of an old Italian woman, who through her own personal sadness, misses the opportunity to visit the newborn Christ Child along with the Magi and Shepherds. When she realizes her mistake, she gathers gifts for the baby, but her searches are in vain. Even today she still visits children with gifts on the eve of Epiphany, honoring the holy child in all of them.
The concert also features works by Fauré, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Tchaikovsky, and a stunning finale with a newly-orchestrated version of David Maddux’s “Christmas Goes Classical.”
Date: Sunday, December 8th at 7:30 pm
Location: Church of the Ascension, 12033 Miller Avenue, Saratoga, CA
Ticket Prices:
Looking for the perfect way to start out your holiday season? Join Resounding Achord Productions for a festive celebration with all three of our choirs: Chromatic Convergence, Pariter Vocal Ensemble, and Resounding Achord. Works include pieces for Chanukah, a trio of songs for the solstice inspired by Hindustani Raags, and a rousing holiday finale sung by all three choirs together.
Date: Sunday, December 3, 2023 3:00 pm
Location: St. Francis Episcopal Episcopal Church, 1205 Pine Avenue, San Jose CA 94022
Ticket Prices:
Adult: $25 online sales, $30 at the door
College Student: $10 online and at the door
Kids: Always Free
Resounding Achord is honored and overjoyed to have been selected to perform at the 2024 ACDA Western Region Conference in Pasadena!
Our program, titled, “Living the Dream,” takes the audience through the life journey of a living soul. Their birth is celebrated, and they start out with youthful exuberance and joy. As they grow into adolescence and adulthood, they long for the simplicity of youth, when comfort was as simple as the touch of their mother’s hand. In adulthood, they struggle to find belonging, feeling like a wanderer, a stranger in their own community, but they cling to the dream of home. They soon learn that home can mean many things, but above all, it is a place where they can love and be loved. The final piece celebrates that realization and challenges the singers and audience members to do their utmost to take care of one other because “we belong to each other.” (Ffe Mwe, Mwe Ffe, Joan Szymko)
For our local audiences, we are excited to join with Ragazzi Boys Chorus, also selected to perform at the conference, for a special send-off concert on March 3 in Portola Valley. Don’t miss your opportunity to see this very special program!
Date: Sunday, March 3, 2024 4:00 pm
Location: Valley Presbyterian Church, 945 Portola Rd, Portola Valley, CA 94028
Spring has sprung! Chromatic Convergence, Pariter Vocal Ensemble, and Resounding Achord come together to celebrate the end of Resounding Achord Productions’ 2023-2024 season.
This concert honors the beauty of spring and welcomes the warmth of summer. Highlights include Resounding Achord’s presentation of a world premiere revoicing of Saunder Choi’s “Bahay Kubo” and three movements from Fanny Mendelssohn’s Gartenlieder; Singer’s Unlimited’s dynamic arrangement of “The Entertainer” and “Satellite” by Harry Styles from Chromatic Convergence; and Pariter will perform a lovely arrangement of “Arirang” by South Korean composer Hyo-Won Woo and barbershop medley of Beatles tunes that celebrates the sunshine.
Date: Saturday, May 4, 2024 7:30 pm
Location: Campbell United Methodist Church, 1675 Winchester Blvd., Campbell
Ticket Prices:
Resounding Achord Productions is proud to present Chromatic Convergence in their first concert as an official RAP choir. “What’s Streaming” is filled with fan-favorites from social media, TV Shows, movies, and musicals, including songs from Ice Age, Austin Powers, Coco, and many more.
Join us as we travel down Memory Lane enjoying classic tunes from the past 60 years of media.
Date: October 6th, 2023, 8:00 pm
Location: Stone Church, 1937 Lincoln Ave, San Jose CA 95125
Cost: $20 for adults; $10 for college students; Kids are always free
Jubilation / joobə’lāSH(ə)n/ noun a feeling of great happiness and triumph
For the closing concert of our Season of Celebration, we look toward our future and the next 10 years of Resounding Achord Productions. Join Resounding Achord and Pariter in San Jose or Los Altos for a program that features works by Susan LaBarr, Orlando Gibbons, and Carlos Cordero with a brand new commissioned work by Kendrick Huynh in honor of our 10th season. A happy triumph, indeed!
May 13, 2023, 7:30 pm St Francis Episcopal Church 1205 Pine Ave, San Jose, CA 95125, USA |
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May 14, 2023, 4:00 pm Los Altos United Methodist Church 655 Magdalena Ave, Los Altos, CA 94024, USA |