Silver Chorale, a community choir, will be performing its Spring concerts May 1st and May 3rd. The May 1 concert will be held at Terrazas Funeral Chapel on Friday night at 7:00 pm, in Santa Clara on 1 Ft Bayard Road. The second concert will be presented at Cross Point Church on Sunday, May 3 at 3:00 pm. The church is at 11600 Hwy 180 E. in Silver City. Bryce Wooton directs the choir and Laurel Brown is the accompanist.
Twelve songs will be sung by the 30 member chorus including some classical, pop and a number of contemporary pieces. A men's number called "Good Timber" by Susan LaBarr will begin the first half of the program with voices from the tenor and bass sections of the choir. This will be followed by two classical numbers from "The Mozart Requiem," No 6, Lacrimosa and No 2, Hostias.
Contemporary composer, Eric Whitaker, crafted many intricate and challenging songs, and the choir will be performing "All Seems Beautiful To Me." Last year the choir sang his harmonically challenging piece: "Sleep." "Interestingly enough, our choir's newest member, 1st soprano Elaine Kondrat, has sung in Eric Whitacre's special choir, the Whitachords, with some 250 other vocalists," stated board member Sherry Terazas-Wooton. "She has sung with his choirs since 2018, in which members have been chosen after auditioning, then for each performance must learn and memorize it, all on their own, by practicing with recordings to perform in the concerts. She just last week performed in Mr. Whitacre's choir at Carnegie Hall in New York City. Last year they performed in Barcelona, Spain, where some 500 singers from 29 different countries sang at the Palau de Musica Catalina concert hall," Wooton continues. Music can offer great experiences and a lifetime of memories.
Valdeen Wooton, assistant director, conducting warm-up last December 2025 at Cross Point Church preparing for the winter concert.
"Rhythm of Life," arranged by Richard Barnes and "Time," by Jennifer Lucy Cook are fast-paced, mostly spoken and rhythmically challenging songs that will be performed in the program and according to director Bryce Wooton, "Will require some good listening and a sense of humor." The second half of the concert will begin with a ladies only piece called "To Sit and Dream." The composer Rosephanye Powell wanted to emphasize its touching poetry with jazz harmonics and will surely be a treat for the audience. "De Colores" by Vicente Chavarria and Paul Simon's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" are a few favorites, plus more.
