Our second concert, on March 17 & 18, 2024, is entitled The Rat Pack is Back! While those titans are sadly no longer with us, we will offer up the next best thing! Join us as we bring back timeless classics that will have you tapping the toe in no time - hopefully on beats 2 and 4! For this concert we will feature the entire choir along with a jazz combo, solo, and small group performances. Fly Me To The Moon, This Can’t Be Love, The Way You Look Tonight, and I’ve Got You Under My Skin are a few of the gems you will hear. Don’t miss it!
The Choral Society Chorus is now taking a break from concert rehearsals until January 8, 2024, when we will begin working on songs for The Rate Pack is Back. We will, however, be performing on Saturday, December 2 at 4:30 PM at the Plaza and Main, downtown Walla Walla, prior to the lighting of the holiday tree. Come and enjoy the festivities and the arrival of Santa at 5:10 PM.
We wish you a joyous Holiday Season!
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Registration is still open for the second and third concerts. Singers who wish to participate in the optional 6:30 to 7:00 Monday evening rehearsals for Requiem for the Living are welcome but MUST register and pay dues in order to receive music for this concert. These optional rehearsals will resume on January 8, 2024. Mandatory rehearsals for that concert will begin on March 25, 2024.
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The Walla Walla Choral Society has delivered the gift of song for 118 years. We believe music excites, engages, and inspires hope, uniting communities. Therefore, the WWCS strives to promote and perform high-quality choral music in collaboration with other artistic groups and musicians, enriching community culture and vibrancy. As a non-auditioned community chorus, all singers are encouraged to join in these endeavors. A SCHOLARSHIP program allows us to welcome all who are interested, regardless of ability to pay.
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Walla Walla Choral Society always welcomes donations which can be made by check sent to Walla Walla Choral Society, P.O. Box 2367, Walla Walla, WA 99362; or by credit card by clicking the "Donate to Choral Society" button below.
We sincerely appreciate your generosity.
OUR THIRD CONCERT
June 2, 2024, Village Church in College Place, WA
Dan Forrest’s Requiem for the Living is an extraordinary five-movement composition completed in 2013. It is an extended setting of the Requiem, scored for boy soprano/tenor, soprano, choir, and orchestra. The Latin text that Forrest set combines sections from the Requiem with biblical texts from Ecclesiastes and the Book of Job. In most movements, long melodies often begin mysteriously and softly and develop towards a brilliant ending. Most notably the second movement deals with the transience of everything living, based on texts in Latin not usually part of the Requiem. This will be an event not experienced in this valley for some time. You simply must be a part of it! A number of WWCS singers performed this piece in Paris, France, in July 2019 as part of the 75th anniversary of D-Day. We are excited and eager to sing this again.
Support the Choir
The Lobby at Gesa Power House Theatre, November 2023
Our Mission
The Walla Walla Choral Society, a non-profit volunteer organization, promotes and performs accessible and diverse quality choral music and collaborates with other artistic groups, to enrich the cultural life through musical education and performance.
Our Vision
The Walla Walla Choral Society serves as the premier community choral organization in our region. We welcome everyone, 14 years of age and older, to participate in the musical education and performance opportunities. We proactively engage the community at large, children to senior citizens, as both artistic participants in select performances and as audience members. We believe music unites people across the spectrum by building bonds of cooperation and friendship through the celebration of song.