Caldwell University Chorale
The Caldwell University Chorale is a mixed voice ensemble of Caldwell students, faculty, staff and community members directed by Dr. Laura Greenwald, assisted by accompanist Nancy Chamberlain. Chorale members come from as near as Caldwell and as far as Nepal and include music majors, music minors and music lovers.
The chorale performs on the Christmas Spectacular! and Music Department Spring concert each year, and sings for all major campus masses and events. In November and April they often participate in a choral festival locally or in Manhattan. In the past, the chorale has served as the chorus for Garden State Opera productions, including L’Elisir D’Amore and Il Campanello (Donizetti), Le Villi and Suor Angelica (Puccini) and L’Oca del Cairo (Mozart.)
Past performances have included:
- Puccini’s “Il Tabarro”
- Monteverdi’s “Orfeo”
- Santelli’s “Il Negozio”
- Palestrina’s “Sicut Cervus”
- Bernstein’s “Warm Up”
- Vivaldi’s “Gloria”
- Contemporary works by Ola Gjeilo, Randall Stroope and Darmon Meader
The Chorale has performed at:
- Church of the Holy Innocents – West Orange
- St. Peter’s Episcopal Church – Essex Fells
- Immaculate Heart of Mary – Wayne
- St. John’s Episcopal Church and Immaculate Conception – Montclair
- St. Cassian’s Roman Catholic Church – Upper Montclair
- First Presbyterian Church (Caldwell)
- The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd – New York City
- St. Paul the Apostle Church- New York City
- St. Luke’s Episcopal Church – Montclair