Events

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Dear Friend of the Arts, 

We appreciate everyone who joined us for our 2023 "Carols of Christmas" concert, which we presented at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023. And our 2024 spring concert on April 21, 2024, was a wonderful final send-off for our director Bill Tuzika, who then retired from his role as music director of the Salina Chorale. 

Thank you for your enthusiastic response to our singing for these two concerts of the 2023-2024 season. 

To all our chorale members, and those who make up our audiences, there is nothing quite like the joy of making, or listening to, choral music that soars and lifts spirits. 

Our many individual singers create the incredible soaring sounds of voices coming together, as we sing our mixture of songs with as many as 8 different vocal parts. Many of you have accepted and acted upon the heartfelt invitation we give to our audiences at every concert to come join us in singing. 

And so many others of you have faithfully attended our concerts for the Christmas holiday season and in the Spring, here in Salina, Kansas. You have all been our treasured supporters over the years.  Thank you for your faithful support 

The second annual Salina Choral Festival, sponsored by Kansas Wesleyan University, was presented at 7pm Monday, March 4, 2024, at the Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts. The concert featured two pieces performed by each of the student choirs from area high schools, plus a mass choir of all of the high school choruses sang two pieces under the direction of David Corman, director of vocal music for Kansas Wesleyan University. And an additional two pieces presented by the Salina Chorale. Admission in the past has been $5 per person. 

SALINA CHORALE UPCOMING CONERTS ***

Our next Salina Chorale performance will be our 2024 "Carols of Christmas" concert, under the leadership of our new music director, Keri Boley. It will be presented at the end of Thanksgiving weekend, on Sunday, Dec. 1, 2024, at 6 p.m., at Sacred Heart Cathedral, 118 North Ninth Street (at Iron Ave.. 

This year on Sunday, Dec. 15, at 4 p.m., Ballet Salina and the Salina Symphony will present just one performance of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker," which does not require a chorus, so the Salina Chorale will not be involved in that performance. 

However, in December 2025, we will serve as members of the Symphony chorus for their mid-December Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon Christmas Festival concerts.

# # # OUR PAST PERFORMANCES 

The spring concert has been traditionally held at Salina's Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts in downtown Salina, Kansas, when the theater schedule allows, but on occasion is performed at a local church. Watch this webpage, below, for details.

In fall 2017, Sacred Heart Cathedral in downtown Salina welcomed the Salina Chorale and agreed to be the venue for our annual "Carols of Christmas" concert, and graciously has provided a delicious cookie reception for everyone in attendance. They did this for three holiday concerts in a row (2017, 2018, 2019). 

We then took off two years and did not perform in 2020 and 2021. The fourth "Carols of Christmas" concert, was originally scheduled in December 18, 2022, but was delayed a month after our beloved director Bill Tuzicka tested positive for Covid. Sacred Heart Cathedral agreed to have us perform our "Carols of Christmas" concert on January 15, 2023. 

Our fifth "Carols of Christmas" concert to be presented in Sacred Heart Cathedral was a wonderful success on Dec. 17, 2023. Once more we enjoyed performing for a large and enthusiastic audience (our thanks to everyone who was there to support us), just like the ones of past years. 

Your appreciation and applause makes it a joy for us to sing in this high ceiling Sacred Heart Cathedral with the live echo sound much like that of large European cathedrals. 

In addition, the Salina Chorale forms a backbone of the Salina Symphony chorus, in past years being joined by the Kansas Wesleyan University Philharmonic Choir, for a variety of concert events. 

These include the Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon Christmas Festival performances (with a chorus of singers, dancers and childen's choir), now planned for every other year in "odd-numbered years" in mid-December in the Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts. The last Christmas Festival concerts were presented in 2023. 

(In "even numbered years" -- including this year, 2024 -- the Symphony will perform "The Nutcracker" complete with dancers, without the involvement of the Salina Chorale. ) 

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Additional performances and collaborations are also considered, including additional concerts with the Salina Symphony. 

• NOTE: A past unique opportunity came to us in February 2019, when the Salina Chorale received an invitation to sing in a concert featuring the renowned William Baker Festival Singers, of the Kansas City area, which traveled to Salina, Kansas, to perform on Feb. 10, 2019, in Sacred Heart Cathedral. It was a huge honor to be included in the program with this distinguished and chorus.