The 2023-2024 Season

PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS

Give the gift of music. For those special occasions, consider giving CMC concert tickets to your friends and family. 2023-2024 individual concert tickets are $25 for an adult, $20 for senior citizens and veterans (with ID), and $5 for students. Children 12 and under accompanied by an adult are admitted free. All individual tickets for our first concert, “Considering Matthew Shepard,” will be purchased through the Theatre of the Republic.

For purposes of ticket buying, the Chorale defines “students” as those 22 years of age or under who present a student identification issued by the institution in which they are currently enrolled. 2023-2024 special event tickets are priced according to the event. All tickets purchased on the website will be mailed to the purchaser unless the purchaser chooses to print their tickets at home. Tickets purchased less than two weeks prior to the event will be available for pickup at the Will Call table 30 minutes prior to the start of any concert. Tickets will be under the name of the person buying the tickets on the website.

PURCHASE TICKETS

Season Tickets

2023-2024 Subscription Season Tickets are $70 for an adult, $55 for senior citizens and veterans (with ID), and $15 for students. A single-season ticket includes one ticket for each of our three (3) subscription season concerts. Season Ticket sales end on Sunday, 12/10/23 this year. Season tickets will not include our first concert, Considering Matthew Shepard.

Virtual Tickets

2023-2024 Virtual Tickets are $15. If you are unable to join us in person, you may purchase a Virtual Ticket and enjoy our Sunday afternoon concert from the comfort of your home!

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Box Office Information

To be admitted, everyone entering the concert must present a valid ticket to an usher at the door for the concert being attended that day. Due to the nature of our nonprofit status, we are unable to issue refunds for unused concert tickets.

Late Arrivals

Doors to the concert hall open 30 minutes prior to the start of the event. Please plan your trip to arrive at the concert venue 30 minutes prior to the start of the performance. This will allow you plenty of time to park and to be seated before the concert begins. In consideration of the artists and patrons at the concert, late seating will take place during the first appropriate pause in the program.

Ticket Outlet

The Wacky Rabbit: 7702 N Kings Highway, Myrtle Beach

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HEROISM AND THE POWER OF LOVE (See details below)

Individual Tickets: (Good for concerts 2, 3, and 4. Tickets for Considering Matthew Shepard will be purchased through Theatre of the Republic)

Adult $25.00

Senior/Veteran $20.00

Students up to 22 (with ID) $5.00

CONSIDERING MATTHEW SHEPARD by Craig Hella Johnson

  • October 14, 2023 - 7:00 PM - Myrtle Beach High School Performing Arts Center
  • October 15, 2023 - 3:00 PM - Myrtle Beach High School Performing Arts Center
  • Go to www.matthewshepard.show to purchase tickets. Also tickets will be available at the door.
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The Carolina Master Chorale opens its 2023-24 concert season on October 13-15 with CONSIDERING MATTHEW SHEPARD, a Grammy-nominated three-part oratorio composed by Craig Hella Johnson. The work is an evocative and compassionate musical response to the murder of Matthew Shepard.

On October 6, 1998, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard was kidnapped, beaten, and left to die in what became an infamous act of brutality and one of America’s most notorious anti-gay hate crimes. Shepard’s murder ultimately led to the creation of the Matthew Shepard Foundation and provided a catalyst for legislation that expanded the definition of a hate crime to include sexual orientation. In 2009, Congress passed the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act. Composer Craig Hella Johnson had a profoundly personal reaction to both the murder and its resonance.

This three-part fusion oratorio speaks with a fresh and bold voice, incorporating a variety of musical styles seamlessly woven into a unified whole. Johnson sets a wide range of poetic and soulful texts by poets, including Hildegard of Bingen, Lesléa Newman, Michael Dennis Browne, and Rumi. The Shepard family and Foundation engaged with Johnson in the creation of the work and allowed the use of fragments from Shepard’s personal diary. These excerpts, along with interviews and writings from Matthew’s parents, Judy and Dennis Shepard, newspaper reports, and additional texts by Johnson and Browne, are poignantly appointed throughout the work.

The Carolina Master Chorale will stage the work in a collaborative effort with the Theatre of the Republic of Conway, South Carolina. A chamber instrumental ensemble from the Long Bay Symphony of Myrtle Beach will accompany the performance. The ensemble features a string quintet, clarinet, guitar, marimba, and percussion. Soloists, singing in musical styles from classical to country and gospel, will be chosen from the Myrtle Beach musical community.

2023-2024 Subscription Season

THIS DAY SING GLORIA

  • December 9, 2023 - 4:00 PM - Trinity United Methodist Church, 706 14th Ave. S., North Myrtle Beach, SC
  • December 10, 2023 - 4:00 PM - First Presbyterian Church, 3810 Robert M. Grissom Pkwy., Myrtle Beach, SC

On December 9 and 10, 2023, the Carolina Master Chorale will open its 41st Subscription Concert Season with its long-standing holiday tradition, presenting music for choir and brass ensemble celebrating Christmas and Hanukah. The program is anchored by medium-length works of contemporary choral composers, including setting of Gloria by Antonio Vivaldi, Jeffrey Ames, and John Rutter, and Hodie (“This Day”) by Z. Randall Stroope, and excerpts from Aspects of a Great Miracle about the Hanukah story by Michael Isaacson. The program is accompanied by a 10-piece brass and percussion ensemble from the Long Bay Symphony of Myrtle Beach.

BROADWAY HEROES, BROADWAY LOVERS

  • February 17, 2024 - 4:00 PM - Trinity United Methodist Church, 706 14th Ave. S., North Myrtle Beach, SC
  • February 18, 2024 - 4:00 PM - First Presbyterian Church, 3810 Robert M. Grissom Pkwy., Myrtle Beach, SC

In February 2024, the Carolina Master Chorale merges two of its most popular programs, featuring the winners of the Seventh Annual Carolina Master Chorale/Coastal Carolina University Student Vocal Competition in a Broadway love song concert for Valentine’s Day. The program, which will be designed around the competition winners after their selection in the Fall of 2023, will include songs such as "Make Them Hear You" from RAGTIME, "The Impossible Dream" from MAN OF LA MANCHA, "Can You Read My Mind?" from SUPERMAN, "One Day More" from LES MISERABLES, "In Every Age" from TITANIC, and more.

AMERICAN HEROES

  • April 27, 2024 - 4:00 PM - Trinity United Methodist Church, 706 14th Ave. S., North Myrtle Beach, SC
  • April 28, 2024 - 4:00 PM - First Presbyterian Church, 3810 Robert M. Grissom Pkwy., Myrtle Beach, SC

On April 27 and 28, 2024, the Carolina Master Chorale season finale will celebrate eight local heroes from eight walks of life whose passions and efforts have made the world a better place. Honorees or their designees will be present to hear their stories told in brief and to experience a choral performance selected specifically to ennoble their personal contributions. This is the second time the CMC has produced a program under this theme, and as there were far more nominees than could be honored at the previous concerts, this event undoubtedly will bring highly deserved recognition to individuals and causes that have improved the lives of all they touch.

SPECIAL EVENTS

  • 1

    December 2 and 3, 2023 - Messiah

  • 2

    Saturday, February 10, 2024 - 7:00 PM
    Myrtle Beach Rotary - Bravo Broadway, Myrtle Beach High School Performing Arts Center

  • tres

    Sunday, February 4, 2024 - 4:00 PM
    Long Bay Symphony - Canticle of the Sun, Myrtle Beach High School Performing Arts Center