The Chattanooga Girls Choir will have their 25th Anniversary Spring Concert Oh, the Places We’ve Sung! on Saturday at 3 p.m. This is the closing event for the 2011-12 season.
In honor of the 25th anniversary season the CGC has two treats for choir members and their audience. The Chattanooga Girls Choir will be debuting a song commissioned for the 25th anniversary of the choir. The piece, inspired by poet Emily Dickinson, was composed by a local composer, Susan LaBarr, and is titled Hope is the Thing with Feathers.
What also makes this event special for the choir is that 30 CGC alumnae will be performing on the concert program. The CGC Concert Choir will present six selections with alumnae. Musical selections the choir will present include songs they have performed at locations around the world since 1987. The selections include Battle Hymn of the Republic, Chattanooga Choo Choo, How Can I keep From Singing, O Mio Babbino Caro, Sound the Trumpet and The Storm is Passing Over.
Keeping with tradition, the choir will close the concert with Edelweiss, a nostalgic piece for the choir as they performed it during the first CGC international tour. Since that time the selection has become the traditionally way the CGC closes its winter and spring mass choir concerts. When the last notes from Edelweiss are played there generally is not a dry eye in the audience.
The concert will be held at Ridgedale Baptist Church, 1831 Hickory Valley Road. Tickets are $12 for adults; $8 youth (18 and under).