NEWS
June 08, 2010
TCC embarks on Eleven-Day Concert Tour to Spain
The Turtle Creek Chorale’s 30th Anniversary Season concludes with an eleven-day concert tour of Spain. Tour participants depart Dallas July 1 and will offer concert performances in Madrid, Seville and Barcelona. Not since 1995 has the organization traveled outside North America. According to Artistic Director Dr. Jonathan Palant, “We are very proud of our accomplishments and want to share them with the world. Our mission to Entertain, Educate, Unite and Uplift is never more tangible than when traveling together.”
Under Palant’s musical direction and organized by Music Celebrations International, a professional tour company specializing in custom tours for arts organizations, the Turtle Creek Chorale arrives in Madrid one day prior to the start of Europe’s largest GLBT street celebration, Madrid Pride. The ensemble will march in the Pride Parade and then offer a short performance in front of one million spectators in Plaza de España. A formal performance takes place Sunday evening, July 4 in the Sabatini Gardens in front of the Madrid Royal Palace as part of the Festival Verano de La Villa.
The Chorale makes a brief stop in Cordoba to tour before arriving in Seville, one of the world’s greatest tourist centers. Extensive sightseeing and a concert at the Centro Cultural Cajasol are planned.
Barcelona is the final stop on the tour, but only after overnight stays in both Grenada and Valencia. While in Barcelona, the group will visit Gaudi’s famous church, La Sagrada Familia, travel to Montserrat, a working monastery and have plenty of time to walk Las Ramblas, the renowned shopping avenue.
The Turtle Creek Chorale is a featured performer in the Catalan Federation of Choruses International Choral Festival being held at the Esglesia de Santa Maria del Pi. Panteres Grogues, Barcelona’s newest gay and lesbian chorus, will host a formal welcoming party following this performance
Sean Baugh, President of the Turtle Creek Chorale, says, “The membership could not be more excited to share the Chorale’s mission with the people of Spain. While we have not traveled abroad in 15 years, our message remains the same—we are all one though music. It is an honor to represent the City of Dallas and the United States of America on this tour.”
TRAVEL DATES:
July 1-11, 2010
PERFORMANCE DATES:
July 3, 2010 Plaza de España, Madrid
July 4, 2010 Veranos de la Villa, Jardines de Sabatini, Calle Bailén Madrid
July 6, 2010 Centro Cultural Cajasol, Sala Joaquin Turina C/Laraña 4. Seville
July 9, 2010 Esglesia de Santa Maria del Pi, Placa Sant Josep Oriol, Barcelona
ABOUT THE TURTLE CREEK CHORALE:
Now in its 30th season, and with over 200 singing members, the Turtle Creek Chorale performs annually to live audiences in excess of 50,000. All members of the Chorale are dues paying volunteers who donate over 100,000 hours to rehearsals, service projects and as many as 50 benefit performances annually. The Chorale’s mission includes attracting a diverse audience and membership, building bridges to a greater awareness of our shared humanity and touching hearts and changing lives in a nurturing and affirming environment through the universal and unifying power of music. This season, the Turtle Creek Chorale offered subscription concerts in the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House and the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre.
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