The St. Croix Valley Orchestra Presents:
Messiah

St Croix Valley Orchestra Messiah Invitation

The St Croix Valley Orchestra will celebrate the beginning of its 20th season this December with performances of Handel’s Messiah. When an orchestra was first brought together to perform Messiah in December of 1991, it was in St Croix Falls with a diverse group of musicians from the surrounding area who were looking for the opportunity to play and sing a great work, both for their own enjoyment and for the benefit of people who live here. The experience was so wonderful in many ways that the reception after the event turned into an enthusiastic planning session to form a community orchestra for this area, and our orchestra began rehearsals just a couple of weeks later. Now, hundreds of concerts and many Messiah performances later, we are pleased to invite musicians of the area, both orchestra players and singers, to come and share in this great traditional musical and religious opportunity.

Orchestra rehearsals will begin the Monday after Labor Day from 7 to 9 pm at the high school in St Croix Falls. Depending on the response of community and church chorus groups and individuals, weekly choral rehearsals will be arranged as needed beginning in October. Performances will be the first weekend in December. If you would like to join in, please contact the director Randolph Elliott through the orchestra website, www.scvorchestra.org; or leave a message at 651 257-1854 with a way to contact you in the evening. We hope you will come and enjoy bringing to life this beautiful music with us.