We Sing Leopold!

Don't forget to enter our giveaway below! The drawing is still open until March 3rd, 11am CST...

And now, we're excited to announce a chance to hear the WCC this Saturday!

We're proud to be invited to sing Sand County, music by Jean Belmont Ford and words by Aldo Leopold at this year's annual Madison Reads Leopold event. 

Aldo Leopld's works have had a big impact on Madison and the surrounding area in conservation and ecology.  His best known work, A Sand County Almanac, will be read throughout the day.

Kansas City composer Jean Belmont Ford wrote Sand County, a choral suite in three movements, as a tribute to Leopold.  Belmont's work was commissioned for the Wisconsin sesquicentennial by Madison's own Festival choir in 1998.  On November 19, 2010, the Wisconsin Chamber Choir performed this work as the finale to our fall concert, O Voluptuous Earth.  It quickly became one of our favorite pieces of the year. 

We will be performing this piece on March 5th, 2011 during the Madison Reads Leopold event.  The event is held at the UW Arboretum Visitor's Center Auditorium and we will be performing at approx. 12:45pm.  This is a free event!  We encourage you to come for our musical performance, or for any part of the readings.  Its a great way to say goodbye to these cold Winter months and welcome in the Springtime!

Welcome & Concert Ticket Giveaway!

The Wisconsin Chamber Choir is excited to share our musical journey with you!  We want to give our audience a closer look into our thoughts about the music we're singing, who we are, what we're up to and much, much more!  Each choir season is a amazing ride we hope you'll take with us.

We're currently smack dab in the middle of our 13th season of bringing great choral music to Madison, WI.  This year's theme "Music & the Natural World" has been an ear opening experience with our first concert back on November 19th: "O Voluptuous Earth."  On March 5th at the Madison reads Leopold event at the UW Arboretum we'll be giving an encore performance of our finale piece "Sand County" by Jean Ford Belmont at 12:45pm.

We're also excited to present our next concert Haydn's "The Creation" on April 2nd at the Historical Madison Masonic Center.  Stay tuned here for more information!

And now to the good part of this post:  In anticipation of our next concert and this fabulous blog we're giving away a pair of tickets to our next concert!  Here's how to enter:

1. Follow this blog!  Click the button to the right and add yourself to our followers.
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4. click the little buttons under this post and link it to your own blog, facebook and/or twitter feed.  You can link it to each one for a total of 3 entries.

That's a total of 6 ways you can enter.  Once you've done all those things make sure and LEAVE A COMMENT on this post letting us know how you entered.  The contest will end on the 3nd of March 2011 at 11am central time zone.

Are you concerned you might not win tickets?  Then click the Brown Paper Tickets link to the left and purchase your tickets now!

We hope you are as excited as us as we all get to know each other better and make some beautiful music!