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The NEW CENTURY SINGERS

Upcoming Concerts

Who We Are Current Activites Singer Handbook Info on Past Seasons For More Info

Who We Are
The New Century Singers is a community chorus dedicated to the performance of music by American composers and arrangers.

Founded by Music Director, W. Robert Johnson, in 1975 just prior to the nation's Bicentennial celebration, the group has been presenting concerts to appreciative audiences in the greater Washingon metropolitan area ever since. Though group members are amateur musicians, we all bring years of experience making music by singing, playing instruments, or performing on stage in a variety of productions. Our combined sound is definitely professional when offering our eclectic repertoire of jazzy popular standards, gospel, folk and art song, cantatas, show tunes or seasonal pieces.

The Singers have performed the music of many of America's most beloved popular and "serious" composers, and we enjoy the challenge of broadening our repertoire with each new concert season. We also have been proud to feature works by local area composers such as Marshal Ocker, Daniel Gawthrop, Richard Dirksen, Charlene Moore Cooper, and others.

For chance to hear what we sound like - listen to a short clip from Bright Journeys by Daniel Gawthrop. Choose from the Quicker to download version or the Clearer version.

Photo Gallery - take a peek at us!

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Current Activities: 04-05 Season
The 30th Anniversary Season of The New Century Singers will focus on what American composers and arrangers have done with the traditional European musical forms.

The Peaceable Kingdom

The 30th Anniversary Season of The New Century Singers will see The Singers joining forces with the New Dominion Choraliers of Woodbridge, VA, in a performance of Randall Thompson's masterpiece for double chorus. The Choraliers will perform separately and The Singers will perform a reprise of favorites selected from repertoire of pas seasons to round out the program. Note: There will only be on concert in the Silver Spring area; the other concert will be in the Choraliers home of Woodbridge, Virginia.

Concerts:

Saturday, November 6th, 8:00 pm

Good Shepherd Luatheran Church

Woodbridge, VA

Sunday, Nov 7th, 4 p.m.
Good Shepherd Church,

Silver Spring, Maryland

Singer Workshop

Open to the public, the 12th Annual Mid-Winter Choral Workshop will be hosted by the New Century Singers in January 2005. The workshop will again be a full day session for all participants. Our guest clinician will share choral techniques to enhance your choral performance as a choral singer as well as improving the overall choral sound of your own chorus..

The workshop is scheduled for a Saturday 15th, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, Silver Spring.MD. The workshop fee is $15 and includes a light lunch. The alternate date in the event of snow is January 22..

Memories of the '40's

The Singers perform music from the 1940's, emulating the Festival of the Forties presented by the Kennedy Center. This set of concerts will feature both serious and popular music from that significant decade. The Singers invite you to join them for this musical tribute to the The Greatest Generation.

Concerts: Saturday, February 28th, 8 p.m.
Saturday, February 26th, 8:00 pm
Concert location TBA

Sunday, February 27th, 4 p.m.
Good Shepherd Church, Silver Spring, MD

Shakespeare set to Music American Style

American composers have always been fascinated by the words of William Shakespeare. They have set those words for songs and madrigals as well as setting whole Shakespeare plays for Broadway. The Singers will perform many of those settings in their Spring concert series as the complete their 30th Anniversary Season. Come and hear Will Shakespeare brought up=to-date..

Concerts:
Saturday, June 4th, 8 p.m.
Concert location TBA
Sunday, June 5th, 4 p.m.
Good Shepherd Church, Silver Spring, MD

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Singer Handbook
Our Singer Handbook provides a summary of what we do and what is expected of singers.

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Interested???? We'd love to have you join us either as a singer or as an audience member and dedicated supporter! For more information - please feel free to send an email to wrjohnson@aol.com.