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Reading Choral Society
The Reading Choral Society is one of America’s oldest musical ensembles, and from its earliest days has pursued performances characterized by vocal excellence and musical distinction. It was founded in 1875 in Reading, Pennsylvania.
==History==
Under its first music director, German-trained Edward A. Berg, the Society flourished, in part from Berg’s personal connections to the musical leaders of the day, particularly his friendship with Theodore Thomas, the most dynamic and foresighted orchestral conductor of the nineteenth century. Berg’s enlightened direction and his mission—to perform great choral masterworks, without ignoring contemporary composers—has guided the Society since its founding. Berg and his successors performed the major choral/orchestral repertory (''Messiah'', ''The Creation'', and ''Elijah'' were particularly popular), often accompanied by the New York Philharmonic Club, the Philadelphia Orchestra, and similar groups. The Society, like its many sister choruses across the country in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, brought musical stars and quality repertory to the Reading community, long before orchestras usurped that role in the public’s perception. In its first half-century, the Society performed with such vocal stars such as baritone Nelson Eddy, and Metropolitan Opera regulars Margaret Harshaw, William Hargrave, Julius Huehn, Wellington Ezekiel, and many others.
The RCS programmed the twentieth-century’s most important choral works, including among many others Orff’s ''Carmina Burana'', Stravinsky’s ''Symphony of Psalms'', Ernest Bloch’s ''Sacred Service'', and Honegger’s ''Le roi David''. The Society also has a distinguished record of performing American music: Horatio Parker led an early performance of his ground-breaking oratorio ''Hora Novissima'' with the RCS, and Henry Kimball Hadley later conducted a program of his works. Many of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s oratorios were given early hearings in Reading, and the Society gave the local premieres of Kurt Weill’s ''Down in the Valley'', Gershwin’s ''Porgy and Bess'', and the distinguished African-American composer Robert Nathaniel Dett’s ''The Ordering of Moses''. More recently, the Society has commissioned music from Daniel Pinkham, David Conte, Jennifer Higdon, Robert Page, Jayson Rotnak, and for the 2004-2005 season, Pennsylvania composer Robert Maggio.
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