Minnesota Center Chorale

Jody Martinson, Music Director and Conductor

The Minnesota Center Chorale (MCC) is a regional community chorus which begins its 39th season in the fall of 2011. MCC draws members throughout central Minnesota into this 80 member choir to perform a mixture of classical and contemporary music. The Minnesota Center Chorale is a member of United Arts of Central Minnesota. All the members are volunteers.

Works performed in past seasons include requiems by Brahms and Verdi; masses by Ethel Smyth, Mozart, and Amy Beach; Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio; and programs entitled Music by Asians & Asian Americans, Space Music and Rhythm & Song. Past residencies include Korean American composer Yung-wha Son with Song of Diaspora in May 2006, Judith Shatin with the premiere of the MCC commission of a newly orchestrated version of Songs of War and Peace, English composer David Fanshawe and a performance of his African Sanctus, and Mary McAuliffe from Ireland for a performance of her Return to Old Ireland.

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