Sing with Us this Season!

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OPEN REHEARSALS. Join Chiaroscuro, an adult men’s community chorus based in Adrian, Michigan. During our performance season (September through May) we open our regular Tuesday rehearsals to potential new members all through the months of September and again in January from 6:30 pm until 9:00 pm in the church sanctuary at Adrian First United Methodist Church, 1245 W. Maple Avenue, Adrian, Michigan. During the summer (June through August), we suspend Tuesday rehearsals, holding optional member workshops on Mondays. Interested new summer season members attend rehearsal and audition on Mondays during the month of June.

THE AUDITION. After rehearsal, stay to sing America (My Country ‘tis of Thee), Amazing Grace or another well-known song with piano accompaniment to demonstrate your ability to sing accurately the melody and the rhythm. Music for America or Amazing Grace will be provided. Our members are expected to learn their music outside of rehearsals. The ability to read music is desirable but not required. We provide digital rehearsal recordings to assist singers to learn the music.

We are always welcoming male tenors, baritones and basses to our chorus. We sing a wide variety of meaningful music, develop life-long friendships and give inspiring performances, usually to standing ovation audiences! Our all-male voice chorus represents all backgrounds and ages, seeks to create one glorious unified sound as we touch the hearts and minds of our listeners, and provides a place to belong for our members.

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Singing Auditions Underway Now

When?

PERFORMANCE SEASON (September through May)

September and January, Tuesdays from 6:30 until 9:00 pm

SUMMER SEASON

June, Mondays from 6:30 pm until 9:00 pm

Where?

Church Sanctuary

Adrian First United Methodist Church

1245 Maple Ave. Adrian MI 49221

Songs We’ve Sung…Through the Years

Click the + to open each year. We have been blessed to sing many, many songs for our community!

2025-2026

Ave Maria, Franz Biebl

Barb’ra Allen, American Folk Ballad, arr. Randy Gill

Best of Doo Wop, The, arr. Ed Lojeski

Brothers Sing On, Edvard Grieg, arr. Howard McKinney

“Drinking Song” adapted from the opera, Sir John in Love, Ralph Vaughan Williams

E’en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come, Paul Manz

Glow, Eric Whitacre

Gone Home, Spiritual, arr. John Wykoff

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Hugh Martin and Ralph Blayne, arr. Mark Hayes

How Can I Keep from Singing? Quaker Hymn, arr. Gwyneth Walker

I Saw Three Ships, English Carol, arr. Mark Riese

I See the Heaven’s Glories Shine, Andrea Ramsey

I Will Be a Child of Peace, Elaine Hagenberg

I’ll Fly Away, Albert E. Brumley, arr. Craig Courtney

Java Jive, Ben Oakland, arr. Russell Robinson

Joshua, Spiritual, arr. Robert Sell

Lord, Make me an Instrument of Thy Peace, John Rutter

Let All Men Sing, Keith Christopher

Lunar Lullaby, Jacob Narverud

March of the Kings, French Carol, arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw

Never my Love, Donald and Dick Addrisi, arr. Richard Dombrosky

Nini sili nebesniya, Alexander Sheremetev, arr, Vladimer Morosan

O Come, Let Us Sing unto the Lord, Emma Lou Diemer

People Look East, Advent Hymn, arr. Craig Courtney

Still, Still, Still, Austrian Carol, arr. Norman Luboff

See Amid the Winter’s Snow, Dan Forrest

Take me Out to the Ball Game, Alfred von Tilzer, arr. Donald Moore

Testament of Freedom, The, Randall Thompson

  1. The God Who Gave Us Life
  2. I shall not die without a hope

Two Patriotic Songs, arr. David Dickau

               The Star-Spangled Banner

               America, the Beautiful

Ubi Caritas, Ola Gjeilo

We Rise Again, Leon Dubinsky, arr. Stephen Smith, acc. Scott Macmillan

You Raise me up, Rolf Løvland, arr. Roger Emerson

Zion’s Walls, Aaron Copland, arr. Glenn Koponen

2024-2025

Amazing Grace, American hymn, arr. Robert T. Gibson

Bogoroditse Devo from All Night Vigil, Opus 37, Sergei Rachmaninoff

Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella, French carol, arr., Howard Helvey

Cantique de Jean Racine, Gabriel Fauré, arr. K. Lee Scott

Christmas Song, The (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire), Mel Tormé and Robert Wells, arr. Mark Hayes

Christus from Selve morale (1641), Caludio Monteverdi

Cry Out and Shout, Knut Kystedt, arr. Tim Sarsany

Ding! Dong! Merrily on High, French carol, Thoinot Arbeau, arr. Howard Helvey

Do You Hear the People Sing? From Les Misérables, Claude-Michel Schönberg arr. Ed Lojeski

Don’t Fence me in, Cole Porter

Dostoyno yest, Opus 1, No. 4, Nikolai Golovanov

Go Down, Moses, Spiritual, arr. Moses Hogan

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Hugh Martin and Ralph Blayne, arr. Mark Hayes

I Cannot Count the Stars, Eugene Butler

I’ll Fly Away, Albert E. Brumley, arr. Craig Courtney

O Magnum Mysterium, Manolo Da Rold

O Tannenbaum, German carol, arr. Alice Paker and Robert Shaw

On Christmas Night All Christians Sing, Sussex carol, arr. Howard Helvey

Pat-a-pan, Burgundian carol, arr. David Conte

Song of Peace, Opus 82, Vincent Persichetti

Stars are with the Voyager, The, Eleanor Daily

Sure, on this Shining Night from Nocturnes, Morten Lauridsen

Tell My Father from The Civil War: An American Musical, Frank Wildhorn, arr. Andrea Ramsey

Vive l”Amour, College Song, arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw

We Rise Again, Leon Dubinsky, arr. Stephen Smith, acc. Scott Macmillan

Western Songs, arr. Roger Wagner

Zion’s Walls, Aaron Copland, arr. Glenn Koponen

Paukenmesse in C Major (Mass in Time of War), Franz Josef Haydn (with the Adrian College Chorus and the Adrian Symphony Orchestra)

2023-2024

Alfred Burt Carols, Alfred Burt

Caroling, Caroling

We’ll Dress the House

Amor de mi Alma, Z. Randall Stroope

Alleluia, Ralph Manuel

A-Roving, Sea Chantey, arr. Norman Luboff

Awakening, The, Joseph M. Martin

Battle Hymn of the Republic, William Steffe, arr. Peter J. Wilhousky

Beati Mortui from Zwie Geistliche Chre für vier Männerstimmen, Opus 115, Felix Mendelssohn-Baltholdy

Blow Ye, the Trumpet from John Brown, Kirke Mechem

Bring Him Home from Les Misérables, Claude-Michel Schönberg arr. John Leavitt

Down in the Valley, Kentucky folk song, arr. George Mead

Duh Tvoy blagiy, Opus 25, No. 10, Pavel Chesnokov

E’en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come, Paul Manz

Fisherman’s Son, Jimmy Rankin, arr. Larry Nickel

Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight, James Hughes and Calvin Carter, arr. Roger Emerson

Grace in the Sun, arr. Ethan Sperry

Hands that First Held Mary’s Child, The, Dan Forrest

I Have Had Singing, Ron Jeffers

If Music Be the Food of Love, David Dickau

Last Words of David, The, Randall Thompson

Let All Men Sing, Keith Christopher

O Holy Night, Adolphe-Charles Adams, arr. Scott Hyslop

O Love, Elaine Hagenberg

O Magnum Mysterium, Morten Lauridsen

Prayer of the Children, Kurt Bestor, arr. Andrea Klouse

Shenandoah, Traditional chantey, arr. Marshall Bartholomew

Sing dem Herrn, Michael Praetorius

Sing We Now of Christmas, French carol, arr. David York and Bryan Johanson

Somebody’s Calling My Name, Spiritual, arr. Wendell Whalum

Spaséñiye sodélal, Opus 25, No. 5, Pavel Chesnokov, Arr. Vladimir Morosan

There is a Balm in Gilead, Spiritual, arr. Philip Devaney

Water is Wide, The, American folk song, arr. Miles Ramsey

Who is He in Yonder Stall? Robert H. Young

2022-2023

Awakening, The, Joseph M. Martin

Away from the Roll of the Sea, Allister McGillivray, arr. Diane Loomer

America, Our Heritage, Helen Steele, arr. Hawley Ades

Ballade to the Moon, Daniel Elder

Battle Hymn of the Republic, William Steffe, arr. Peter J. Wilhousky

Behold Man, Ron Nelson

Brothers, Sing On, Edvard Grieg, arr. Howard D. McKinney

Colorado Trail, Cowboy song, arr. Norman Luboff

Two Country Songs from Frostiana, Randall Thompson

Pasture, The

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Fum, Fum, Fum, Spanish carol, arr. Howard Helvey

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen from A Choral Fantasy, English carol, arr. Mark Riese

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Hugh Martin and Ralph Blayne, arr. Mark Hayes

I Saw Three Ships from A Choral Fantasy, English carol, arr. Mark Riese

I See the Heaven’s Glories Shine, Andrea Ramsey

Invictus, Joshua Rist

Loch Lomond, Scottish song, arr. Jonathan Quick

Lux Aurumque, Eric Whitacre

Mairi’s Wedding, Scotch reel, arr. Drew Collins

Mary, Did You Know? Mark Lowry and Buddy Greene, arr. Jack Schrader

Morning Trumpet, The, Sacred Harp, arr. Michael Richardson

Old Colorado Trail, The, Cowboy song, arr. Norman Luboff

Preacher and the Bear, The, American Gospel Song, arr. Daniel McDavitt

Streets of Laredo, Cowboy song, arr. Norman Luboff

Tell My Father from The Civil War: An American Musical, Frank Wildhorn, arr. Andrea Ramsey

There is a Balm in Gilead, Spiritual, arr. Philip Devaney (Premier Performance)

There is Nothing Like a Dame from South Pacific, Richard Rodgers

Ubi Caritas, Ola Gjeilo

Unchained Melody, Alex North, arr. Mark Brymer

Water is Wide, The, American folk song, arr. Miles Ramsey

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks, Craig Courtney

Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Cowboy song, arr. Norman Luboff

2020-2022: The Covid Years

No performances during Covid

2019-2020

Ballade to the Moon from Three Nocturnes, Daniel Elder

Behold Man, Ron Nelson

Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella, French carol, arr., Howard Helvey

Brothers, Sing On, Edvard Grieg, arr. Howard D. McKinney

Fum, Fum, Fum, Spanish carol, arr. Howard Helvey

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Hugh Martin and Ralph Blayne, arr. Mark Hayes

Homeland, Gustav Holst, arr. Z. Randall Stroope

I Have Had Singing, Ron Jeffers

I Saw Three Ships from A Choral Fantasy, English carol, arr. Mark Riese

I See the Heaven’s Glories Shine, Andrea Ramsey

Invictus, Joshua Rist

Lux Aurumque, Eric Whitacre

Mary, Did You Know? Mark Lowry and Buddy Greene, arr. Jack Schrad

Nine Hundred Miles, American folk song, Arr. Philip E. Silvey

O Magnum Mysterium, Manolo Da Rold

Preacher and the Bear, The, Gospel Song, arr. Daniel McDavitt

Rose of Sonora, The, George Clinton (Midwest Premier Performance with the Adrian Symphony Orchestra)

See Amid the Winter’s Snow, John Goss, arr. Dan Forrest

Stars I Shall Find, David Dickau

Still, Still, Still, Austrian carol, arr. Norman Luboff

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks, Craig Coutney

Carmina Burana, Carl Orff (with Adrian College Choir, Carillon Women’s Chorus and Adrian Symphony Orchestra)

2018-2019

Amor de mi Alma, Z. Randall Stroope

Ave Maria, Franz Biebl

Awakening, The, Joseph Martin

Away from the Roll of the Sea, Allistre McGillivray, arr. Diane Loomer

Barb’ra Allen, American folk song, arr. Randall Gill

Battle Hymn of the Republic, William Steffe, arr. Peter J. Wilhousky

Best of Doo Wop, arr. Ed Lojeski

Betelehemu, Nigerian carol, Babatunde Olatunji, arr. Wendell Whalum

Blow Ye, the Trumpet from John Brown, Kirke Mechem

Brothers, Sing On, Edvard Grieg, arr. Howard D. McKinney

Cantique de Jean Racine, Gabriél Faure, arr. Katherine K. Davis

Die Nacht, Franz Schubert

Ding! Dong! Merrily on High, French carol, Thoinot Arbeau, arr. Howard Helvey

Duh Tvoy blagiy, Opus 25, No. 10, Pavel Chesnokov

El Yivneh Hagalil, Hebrew folk song, arr. Peter Sozio

E’en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come, Paul Manz

Fisherman’s Son, Jimmy Rankin, arr. Larry Nickel

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Hugh Martin and Ralph Blayne, arr. Mark Hayes

Homeland, Gustav Holst, arr. Z. Randall Stroope

I Cannot Count the Stars, Eugene Butler

Last Words of David, The, Randall Thompson

Music of Living (The), Dan Forrest

O Magnum Mysterium, Morten Lauridsen

On Christmas Night All Christians Sing, Sussex carol, arr. Howard Helvey

Pat-a-pan, Burgundian carol, arr. David Conte

Sing me to Heaven, Daniel Gawthrop

Song of Peace, Opus 10, Vincent Persichetti

Spaséñiye sodélal, Opus 25, No. 5, Pavel Chesnokov, Arr. Vladimir Morosan

Things that Never Die, David Dickau (Manuscript)

2017-2018

A-Roving, Sea chantey, arr. Norman Luboff

Amor de mi Alma, Z. Randall Stroope

Awakening, The, Joseph Martin

Battle Hymn of the Republic, William Steffe, arr. Peter J. Wilhousky

Bogoroditse Devo from All Night Vigil, Opus 37, Sergei Rachmaninoff

Brothers, Sing On, Edvard Grieg, arr. Howard D. McKinney

Ding! Dong! Merrily on High, French carol, Thoinot Arbeau, arr. Howard Helvey

Do You Hear the People Sing? From Les Misérables, Claude-Michel Schönberg arr. Ed Lojeski

Down in the Valley, Kentucky folk song, arr. George Mead

El Yivneh Hagalil, Hebrew folk song, arr. Peter Sozio

Fascinating Rhythm, George Gershwin

For the Fallen, Mike Sammes

Gift Carol, The, Lloyd Pfautsch

Hodie Christus natus est, Giovanni Luigi da Palestrina

Most Wonderful Time of the Year, The, Eddie Pola and George Wyle, arr. Jerry Rubino

O Come, Let Us Sing unto the Lord, Emma Lou Diemer

O Magnum Mysterium, Manolo Da Rold

One Hand, One Heart from Westside Story, Leonard Bernstein

Sing me to Heaven, Daniel Gawthrop

Song of Peace, Opus 10, Vincent Persichetti

Spaséñiye sodélal, Opus 25, No. 5, Pavel Chesnokov, Arr. Vladimir Morosan

There is Faint Music, Dan Forrest

Things that Never Die, David Dickau (World Premier)

Two Alfred Burt Carols, Alfred Burt

               Caroling, Caroling

               We’ll Dress the House

Two Country Songs from Frostiana, Randall Thompson

Pasture, The

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Unchained Melody, Alex North, arr. Mark Brymer

Welcome Yule from Ringletänze (Christmas Carol Dances), Libby Larsen

What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor, Sea chantey, arr. Robert Shaw and Alice Parker

Frostiana: Seven Country Songs, Randall Thompson (with Carillon Women’s Chorale)

2016-2017

Ain’-a That Good News! Spiritual, arr. Willim L. Dawson

Ave Maria, Franz Biebl

Battle Hymn of the Republic, William Steffe, arr. Peter J. Wilhousky

Behold, Man, Ron Jeffers

Fum, Fum, Fum, Spanish carol, arr. Howard Helvey

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen from A Choral Fantasy, English carol, arr. Mark Riese

Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen

Hands that First Held Mary’s Child, The, Dan Forest

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Hugh Martin ad Ralph Blayne, arr. Mark Hayes

I Got Plenty o’ Nottin’ from Porgy and Bess, George Gershwin, arr. Roger Wagner

I Saw Three Ships from A Choral Fantasy, English carol, arr. Mark Riese

I See the Heaven’s Glories Shine, Andrea Ramsey

In My Life, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, arr. Steve Zegree

Lux Aurumque, Eric Whitacre

O Magnum Mysterium, Morten Lauridsen

Prayer of the Children, Kurt Bestor, arr. Andrea Klouse

Rainbow ‘Round my Shoulder, Work Song, arr. Robert DeCormier

Sacramento Sis Joe, Jackson Berkey

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, Spiritual, arr. Fenno Heath

We Three Kings of Orient Are, John Henry Hopkins, Jr., arr. Gladys Pitcher

When I Fall in Love, Victor Young, arr. James Quitman Mulholland

Zion’s Walls, Aaron Copland, arr. Glenn Koponen

O Come, O Come Emmanuel, Chant, arr. David Schwoebel (with Carillon Women’s Chorale)

What Sweeter Music? John Rutter (with Carillon Women’s Chorale)

2015-2016

American, Our Heritage, Helen Steele, arr. Hawley Ades

Awakening (The), Joseph M. Martin

Awakening, The, Joseph M. Martin

Battle Hymn of the Republic, The, William Steffe, arr. Peter J. Wilhousky

Betelehemu, Nigerian carol, Babatunde Olatunji, arr. Wendell Whalum

Blow Ye, the Trumpet from John Brown, Kirke Mechem

Consecrate the Place and Day, Lloyd Pfautsch

Consecrate the Place and Day, Lloyd Pfautsch

Don’t Fence Me In, Cole Porter, arr. Philip Hagemann

For the Fallen, Mike Sammes

Goodnight, Sweetheart, Goodnight, James Hudson and Calvin Carter, arr. Roger Emerson

I carry your heart with me, David Dickau

If Music be the Food of Love, David Dickau

Java Jive, Ben Oakland, arr. Russell Robinson

Joshua, arr. Robert Sells

Joshua, Spiritual, arr. Robert Sells

Let All Men Sing, Keith Christopher

Riversong: A Celtic Celebration, Roger Emerson

Songs of a Young Man, Richard Nance

  1. When I was Young and Twenty
  2. Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now

Sure, on this Shining Night from Nocturnes, Morten Lauridsen

Take me out to the Ball Game, Albert von Tilzer, arr. Donald Moore

To Love and to be Loved, Wayne Chadwick, arr. Ken Surley

Two Country Songs from Frostiana, Randall Thompson

Pasture, The

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Unchained Melody, Alex North, arr. Mark Brymer

Unchained Melody, Alex North, arr. Mark Brymer

When I Have Sung My Songs to You, Ernest Charles, arr. Timothy Seelig

Who Are the Brave?, Joseph Martin

2014-2015

A-Roving, Sea chantey, arr. Norman Luboff

Awakening, The, Joseph Martin

Barb’ra Allen, American Folk Song, arr, Randall Gill

Battle Hymn of the Republic, The, William Steffe, arr. Peter J. Wilhousky

Blow Ye, the Trumpet from John Brown, Kirke Mechem

Bound for Jubilee, Joyce Eilers

Bring Him Home from Les Miserables, Claude-Michele Schönberg, arr. John Leavitt

Brothers, Sing On, Edvard Grieg, arr. Howard D. McKinney

Climbing up the Mountain, Spiritual, arr. William Henry Smith

Consecrate the Place and Day, Lloyd Pfautsch

Down in the Valley, Kentucky Folk Song, arr. George Mead

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Hugh Martin ad Ralph Blayne, arr. Mark Hayes

Heaven, Spiritual, arr. André Thomas

If Music Be the Food of Love, David Dickau

Last Words of David, The, Randall Thompson

March of the Kings, arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw

Not While I’m Around from Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim, arr. Robert Page

O Holy Child, Michael Cox

Personent Laudibus, arr. Gustav Holst

Salvation is Created, Pavel Tchesnekoff, arr. N. Lindsay Norden

Shenandoah, Sea Chantey, arr. Marshall Bartholomew

Tell My Father from The Civil War, Frank Wildhorn, arr. Andrea Ramsey

Vive L’Amour, arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw

When I Think Upon the Maidens, Michael Head, arr. Gary Lewis

Who is He in Yonder Stall? Robert H. Young

Christmas Cantata (Sinfonia Sacra), Daniel Pinkham (with Carillon Women’s Chorale and Adrian Chamber Brass)

2013-2014

Awakening (The), Joseph Martin

Barb’ra Allen, American ballad, arr. Randall Gill

Bring Him Home from Les Misérables, Claude-Michel Schönberg arr. John Leavitt

Brothers, Sing On, Edvard Grieg, arr. Howard D. McKinney

Chiaroscuro, Allen Borton (Premier Performance)

Christmas Song, The, Mel Tormé and Robert Wells, arr. Joe Liles

E’en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come, Paul Manz

Heaven, Spiritual, arr. André Thomas

Novum Gaudia, Vijay Singh

Now While I’m Around from Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim, arr. Robert Page

O Tannenbaum, German carol, arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw

Salvation is Created, Paul Tschesnokoff

Sing We Now of Christmas, French carol, arr. Ron Jeffers

Magnificat, RV 620, Antonio Vivaldi (with Lenawee Community Chorus and Carillon Women’s Chorale)

Missa Brevis St. Joannis de Deo in B-Flat Major, Hob. XXXII:7, Franz Joseph Haydn (with Carillon Women’s Chorale)

2013

O Come, Let Us Sing unto the Lord, Emma Lou Diemer

For the Fallen, Mike Sammes

A-Roving, Sea chantey, arr. Norman Luboff

Down in the Valley, Kentucky folk song, arr. George Mead

Sing me to Heaven, Daniel Gawthrop

El Yivneh Hagalil, Hebrew folk song, arr. Peter Sozio

Frostiana: Seven Country Songs, Randall Thompson (with Carillon Women’s Chorale)