Choralis Set to Rock With Haydn’s ‘Creation’ Friday

GRETCHEN KUHRMANN (left), founder and artistic director of Choralis, hosting its seventh annual “Spring Festival Week” for three dozen high school students in the region, is shown leading a class in orchestra conducting at the Falls Church Presbyterian Church, home of the group. The students join over 100 others in performing Haydn’s “The Creation” this Friday night. (Photo: News-Press)Choralis, an energetic volunteer choral program based out of the Falls Church Presbyterian Church since 2000, culminates its seventh annual Summer Festival Week for 36 high school students this Friday night.
That’s when the students will join with more than 70 adults and three professional soloists for a performance of Franz Haydn’s dramatic oratorio, “The Creation,” at the Schlesinger Hall on the Alexandria campus of the Northern Virginia Community College, beginning at 8 p.m.

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