Broadway World
Orlando Sings is one of Central Florida's newest professional arts organizations and has already had an exciting and successful first season. Led by Artistic and Executive Director Dr. Andrew Minear, Orlando Sings serves as an umbrella organization for a family of singing groups including two professional ensembles, the Orlando Sings Symphonic Chorus and the Solaria Singers. This young organization has already had a great start to its first season with full and sold-out houses for each of the three concerts they have presented as well as a successful, sold-out gala fundraiser.
Now Orlando Sings gears up to end their inaugural season with a three-concert series in downtown Orlando; the first annual Orlando Sings Choral Festival
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Andrew Minear, artistic and executive director
The festival will open on May 26th with Orlando's own professional vocal ensemble, The Solaria Singers, presenting a thrilling and compelling program of choral music by Black composers in the Alexis and Jim Pugh Theater at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. Some of the finest and most well-crafted choral music ever written, much of this music has been historically excluded or ignored by classical music programs. The selections on Solaria's program include fine examples of non-idiomatic music by Black composers as well as Negro spirituals, always an audience favorite and a most beloved genre of American music. Composers include R. Nathaniel Dett, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Marques L. A. Garrett, Adolphus Hailstork, Moses Hogan, Undine Smith Moore, Zanaida Robles, André Thomas, among others.
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