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2010.19.r
2010.19.r
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Title: William Hall Chorale Collection
Identifier/Call Number: 2010.19.r
Contributing Institution:
Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives, Leatherby Libraries
One University Drive
Orange, CA, 92866
(714) 532 - 7711
rboyd@chapman.edu
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
12.338 Linear feet
(2 document boxes,
12 flat boxes,
2 cartons,
21 scrapbooks)
Date (bulk): Bulk, 1986-2002
Date (inclusive): 1956-2002
Abstract: This collection consists of digital and analog recordings of performances by the William Hall Master Chorale of Orange County,
1956-2002. Along with the recordings there are also a number of scrapbooks documenting the performances.
creator:
Hall, William, DMA
William Hall, D.M.A., is the Dean of the College of Performing Arts, a professor of music for the past 45 years at Chapman
University and the first distinguished professor to hold the Bertea Family Endowed Chair in Music. Hall has taught at major
conservatories of music around the world, and has numerous compositions and arrangements on the market including his own choral
series with National Music Publishers. His professional organization, the William Hall Chorale was under contract to Columbia
Artists Management for over thirty years and sang throughout the U.S. and abroad. William Hall has appeared as guest conductor
in the Far East and throughout the United States and Europe, including performances with the San Francisco Symphony, the Vienna
Symphony, the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, the London B.B.C. Symphony, the Musicians of London, the Sinfonia of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
and the Central Philharmonic Orchestra of Beijing. The William Hall Chorale discography includes numerous recordings on the
Klavier label including the critically acclaimed, double compact disc release of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem and Igor Stravinsky's
Symphony of Psalms; Sergei Rachmaninoff's a capella masterpiece Vespers; a collection of favorite holiday classics entitled
Ceremony of Carols; and a collection of Romantic Lieder by Brahms and Schumann coupled with the Liebeslieder Waltzes. The
Chorale can also be heard on recordings of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Mass in C, Durufle's Quatre Motets and Requiem Mass,
and recently released recordings of Bach's Mass in B-minor, Verdi's Requiem Mass, and Berlioz's Grande Messe des Morts.
This collection tracks the career of the Master Chorale of Orange County group from 1956 to 2002. It contains a variety of
material such as A/V material, vinyl recordings and, the highlight of the collection, 21 scrapbooks documenting the many programs
put on by this group.
This collection is arranged by material type into series and chronologically within each series.
Conditions Governing Access note
This collection is open for research.
Digital recordings can not be made available to the public, only Chapman community may have access.
[identify item], William Hall Chorale Collection, 1956-2002 (2010.19.r), Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections
and Archives, Chapman University, CA.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Donated by William Hall, DMA
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Hall, William, DMA
Chapman University. Conservatory of Music.
Chapman University. School of Music.
William Hall Master Chorale of Orange County