75th Anniversary Celebration Concert

Saturday, March 14, 2026 – 7:30 PM

First United Methodist Church
501 N Tryon St, Charlotte, NC

Celebrate 75 years of choral excellence with the Charlotte Master Chorale in a once-in-a-generation concert. This extraordinary evening unites the Main Chorus, an alumni chorus, and all three living past conductors: Hugh Floyd, David Tang, and Scott Allen Jarrett. Together they’ll perform a selection of beloved masterworks curated by Artistic Director Kenney Potter, including selections from Bach’s Mass in B Minor, Handel’s Messiah, Haydn’s The Creation, Mendelssohn’s Elijah, Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis pacem, and Brahms’ Ein Deutsches Requiem. Don’t miss your chance to be part of this milestone performance.

Charlotte Master Chorale’s 75th Anniversary Celebration Concert is made possible thanks to the generosity of Elizabeth McKay and Stephen Field.

Charlotte Master Chorale Main Chorus
Charlotte Master Chorale Alumni Chorus
Kenney Potter, Philip Biedenbender, Hugh Floyd, David Tang, & Scott Allen Jarrett, conductors
Philip Biedenbender & Stephen Field, piano
Will Young, organ

Free parking is available in First UMC’s parking garage located at 163 W. Ninth Street between Tryon and Church Streets.

Repertoire

BACH: Dona nobis pacem (Mass in B Minor)
BRAHMS: Laß dich nur nichts nicht dauren
BRAHMS: Selig sind die Toten (Ein Deutsches Requiem)
BURLEIGH: My Lord, What a Mornin’
DURUFLÉ: In Paradisum (Requiem)
HANDEL: Hallelujah, Amen (Judas Maccabaeus)
HAYDN: The Heavens Are Telling (Creation)
MENDELSSOHN: And Then Shall Your Light Break Forth (Elijah)
MOZART: Ave Verum Corpus
PARKER, arr.: Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal
PAULUS: The Road Home
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: O Man Greatly Beloved (Dona Nobis Pacem)

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