The sixty-voice Rice Chorale is comprised of voice and music majors and other talented singers from Rice University and the greater Houston community.
Free, general admission. No tickets needed.
Repertoire
Samuel Ward/Katherine K. Bates: America The Beautiful
Vivaldi: "Domine Deus" from Gloria
Paul Creston: Psalm XXIII
Mendelssohn: "Ye People, Rend Your Hearts/If With All Your Hearts" from Elijah
Mendelssohn: "Draw Near All Ye People/Lord God Of Abraham" from Elijah
Schubert: Mass in G Major, D.167
Artists
Thomas Jaber is Director of Choral Activities and Professor of Vocal Coaching at The Shepherd School of Music. In addition to the responsibilities of coaching graduate students and senior voice majors, Mr. Jaber teaches graduate choral conducting and conducts the Rice Chorale.
Mr. Jaber served as Principal Coach in the 1992 season of the Chautauqua Opera. He has also worked as a coach for the Houston Grand Opera on four productions: Lucia di Lammermoor, Tosca, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Porgy and Bess. Before moving to Houston in 1988, Mr. Jaber was a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where, for two seasons, he was Music Director of Opera Theatre of Temple University. There, he conducted the Philadelphia premiers of Monteverdi’s Coronation of Poppea and Virgil Thomson’s Mother of Us All.
