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Rehearsal & Concert Schedule

SUMMER '25 SCHEDULE

​​​​Our Summer 2025 concert program is called "Healing & Heart" in honor of patients and caregivers. This special concert is meant to provide emotional comfort, solace, and healing for not only patients but also their loving caregivers.  We will also be honoring the late, great Bill Withers who passed away five years ago in 2020.

 

As we always do, we will be singing uplifting and powerful music from many different genres (e.g., classical, R&B, Gospel, pop, etc.)  Here are just a few of the many wonderful pieces across many musical genres we will be performing (subject to change):

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  • "Lux Aeterna" by Michael John Trotta

  • "Dies Irae" by Michael John Trotta

  • "Set Me As a Seal Upon Your Heart" by René Clausen

  • "Hold On" arranged by Moses Hogan

  • "Abide With Me" arranged by Moses Hogan

  • "Pie Jesu" by Gabriel Fauré arranged by Barnaby Smith (Voces8)

  • "Lean on Me" by Bill Withers

  • "Just the Two of Us" by Bill Withers

  • "I'll Be There" by The Jackson 5

  • "The Storm Is Passing Over" by Donald Vails

  • "I Love the Lord" by Richard Smallwood

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Here is a YouTube Playlist of these pieces.​

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Unlike most other choirs, AfterGlow rehearses in intensive, 4-week periods right before each concert. Prior to the first rehearsal, singers learn, study, and practice their parts on their own.

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Rehearsals are very fast-paced due to the compressed schedule and high-caliber of singers. Regular rehearsals are held at First Presbyterian Church of Oakland in the popular Uptown neighborhood in Oakland. The rehearsal location is very easily accessible by mass transit (e.g., BART). Many singers also carpool with each other. Free parking is also readily available.

 

Here is the accelerated rehearsal schedule (In order to create a cohesive choral sound in a very short period of time, all rehearsal & concert dates are mandatory):

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  • Rehearsal #1: Monday 7/14 from 7 pm - 9:30 pm

  • Rehearsal #2: Wednesday 7/16 from 7 pm - 9:30 pm

  • Rehearsal #3: Monday 7/21 from 7 pm - 9:30 pm

  • Rehearsal #4: Wednesday 7/23 from 7 pm - 9:30 pm

  • Rehearsal #5: Monday 7/28 7 pm - 9:30 pm

  • Rehearsal #6: Wednesday 7/30 from 7 pm - 9:30 pm

  • Rehearsal #7: Monday 8/4 from 7 pm - 9:30 pm

  • Rehearsal #8: Wednesday 8/6 from 7 pm - 9:30 pm

  • Saturday 8/9 from 1 pm - 4 pm DRESS REHEARSAL @ St. Paul's Episcopal Church Oakland

  • Sunday 8/10 CONCERT #1 (Call Time 1:30 pm for 4 pm concert @ St. Paul's Episcopal Church Oakland

  • Saturday 8/16: CONCERT #2 (Call Time 5:30 pm for 8 pm concert @  St. Paul's Episcopal Church Oakland)

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