These events are for members of the Chattanooga Music Club and invited performers and spokespeople, unless stated otherwise. Please stay tuned to this website, our Facebook page and email for more information on these events
This event is for members only. It is held at the exclusive Walden Club in downtown Chattanooga. We will have a dinner feasting on the scrumptious food offered by our hosts, and install the new Board officers for 2024-25.
This is a closed competition for the Grace Moore Scholarship. Time is subject to change. Location to be determined.
We celebrate our annual Scholarship Winners and have them demonstrate their talents for us. We also hold a Corpoate Meeting and conduct our Board Elections for the 2024-25 Officers.
This is our annual College Music Scholarship Competition, featuring area high school seniors. To be followed by a Corporate Meeting and New Officer Nominations for the 2024-25 season. For interested members and invited competitors, their sponsors and families. For more information, see Scholarships
The annual CMC Board Meeting. For board members and officers only.
Chattanooga native Michael McCallie has distinguished himself as one of the most promising young performers and teachers working within the classical guitar community today. As a performer, Michael has garnered several awards including a prize in the 2004 Stetson University Concerto Competition and top prizes in both the Chattanooga, TN and Cleveland Young Artists’ Competitions. He has performed in concert halls throughout the United States, including Sprague Memorial Hall at Yale University, the Cohen-Davison Theatre at the Peabody Conservatory of Music, Dohnanyi Recital Hall at The Florida State University and has twice performed on the Guitar Sarasota Concert Series. In 2015, he shared the stage with The Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra as a featured soloist.
** This concert is free and open to the public **
Find out more about Michael McCallie here.
During this traditional annual event, we will enjoy the combined meeting of the Chattanooga Music Club and The MacDowell Music Club. This meeting will feature performances by members of both clubs, and is always an exceptional happening that is open to the public. The music will begin at 3 p.m, and afterward there will be a reception for all attendees. No reservations are required but please bring a finger food for the reception if at all possible.
Plenty of good food, company and great music, featuring the B# Chamber Trio with bassoon, piano and flute and led by Club member Ronda Ford. The concert starts at 11:00 and is free and open to the public. Immediately after the concert we will hold our scrumptious banquet catered by our own Bruce Clark; this is a members only event. We will hear music by various members and hold delightful conversation with our Music Club friends while we chow down! The price per plate is $20. The menu :
Stuffed Chicken
Potatoes Au Gratin
Green Beans
Cranberry Sauce
Rolls
Dessert
Tickets are available on the Donations/Purchases page. We request that you purchase your tickets by Sunday, December 3. There are various payment options available.
Presenting 3 remarkable Chattanooga musical organizations:
The Choral Society for the Preservation of African American Song, under the direction of Michael Mitchell
The Chattanooga Youth Symphony, under the direction of Ismael Sandoval
Chorus Angelorum of Chattanooga, under the direction of Janelle Wagoner
— Free and Open to the Public —
The Chattanooga Flute Choir, led by Nora Kile and featuring several talented Chattanooga musicians, will give a lovely concert for the Chattanooga Music Club. It will be free and open to the public.
Saturday, September 9, 2023 at 11:30
Chester Frost Park, Shelter #2
7872 Causeway Road
Hixson TN 37343
Schedule
11:30 – social gathering begins
Noon - short business meeting to welcome new members and guests and make announcements for the upcoming year
12:15 - eat
Entertainment:
The Ralph Miller Jazz Trio
Menu:
BBQ pork and chicken with buns
Macaroni & cheese
BBQ beans
Slaw
Banana pudding
Tea, lemonade, water
Cost:
$18 per person, plus small convenience fee if paying online. Please pay in advance if possible!
There are 2 ways to pay:
Mail a check for $18 per plate to be received by September 2, to
CMC
P.O. Box 21572
Chattanooga, TN 37424
Please include the names of those attending!
Pay online. Go to http://www.chattanoogamusicclub.org/donationspurchases, click on the button “To Pay Dues or Pay for Events, Click Here” and it will take you to a payment page. Select “Picnic Fees” from the drop-down menu, and put in the amount you are paying ($18 per plate). Then click on the button that says “Add $____ to help cover the fees.” The system automatically calculates this number, which is a small percentage of the total you are paying. (It’s a very small fee that helps defray the administrative costs for the convenience of paying online). Then you can select your payment method, which will either be PayPal (you must have a PayPal account set up), or your debit or credit card.
If you have questions about this event, please send us an email at info@chattanoogamusicclub, and put “Attn: Donna Greenwood” in the subject line. These questions will be forwarded to Donna Greenwood, our Hospitality Chair. If you have a question about online payment, contact Pamper Garner Crangle at the same email address and put “Online payment” in the subject line.
This event features New Officer installation, along with some music provided by a local group and some of our scholarship recipients. It is held every year at the exclusive Walden Club in downtown Chattanooga. Social Time will begin at 5:30 p.m.; dinner will be served at 6 p.m.
For Members only. Cost is $50 per plate. See our Donations & Purchase page to pay online or by check. Also, please Let us Know Your Choice of Entree’ via email to info@chattanoogamusicclub.org no later than Thursday May 11!
Program:
Darrin Hassevoort, speaker;
Scholarship Winners, performers
Menu:
Salad
Choice of Entree:
1. Lemon & Herb Roasted Chicken with Roasted Sweet Potato, Brocollini, Cranberry Vinaigrette
2. Grilled Verlasso Salmon with Gouda Grits, Sauteed Spinach, Lemon Butter
3. Hickory Grilled Bistro Filet with Garlic Whipped Potatoes, Asparagus, Cabernet Demi Glace
4. Sun Dried Tomato Angel Hair Pasta with Spinach, Tomato, Roasted Butternut Squash, Parmesan Caper Cream
Desserts:
New York Cheesecake, Raspberry Sauce or Bourbon Butter Cake
Please Let us Know Your Choice of Entree’ via email to info@chattanoogamusicclub.org by Thursday May 11!
This event features the Scholarship winners, where they will each be performing a recital piece for the Club. There will also be a Tea for fun and fellowship. Members are asked to bring trays of finger food, such as a cheese and cracker tray, pinwheel sandwiches, desserts. Last but not least, we will hold a meeting to elect new officers for the 2023-2024 program year. Open to the public.
Featuring Auditions and New Officer Nominations. Competition open to the public. New application deadline is March 9, 2023. See link below for more information.
The Scenic City Chorus—the Chattanooga Chapter of Sweet Adelines International—will entertain us with some delightful 4-part, a capella, barbershop harmony. This group has performed for us before and we enthusiastically welcome them back!
Details are as follows:
WHEN: February 12, 2023 - 3:00 p.m.
WHERE:
First Cumberland Presbyterian Church
1505 N Moore Rd
Chattanooga, TN 37411
PROGRAM: Scenic City Chorus, Directed by: Mary Flavell and Stephanie Harris
The concert is free and open to the public. Bring your friends and family and come and join us!
The joint meeting of the CMC and MacDowell Music Clubs is an annual event, usually held in January, and the music will be provided by members of the two clubs. It is always wonderful music! And, there will be a reception following; please bring a dish if you can. No reservations are needed.
Some of the performers include the following:
Ronda Ford: Flute Soliloquy, Mozart Magic Flute arr. Lowenthal
Ellen Francisco, violin & Bruce Ashton, piano: Sonata by Mozart
Jim Martin, bells & Betty Anne Neal, piano: Selection of Hymns
Ginny Miller, flute & Joy Miller, piano: Song from “Wicked”
Katheron Latham, voice & Charlynne Fry, piano
Kelly Stultz, voice & Sigrid Luther, piano
Margaret Ann Randolph, piano
Joy Mays & Steven Hollingsworth, duo-piano team
Come and kick off the New Year with us!
PROGRAM: Scenic City Bassoons, Dr. Staci A Spring, Director
MENU:
Stuffed Chicken
Potatoes Au Gratin
Green Beans
Cranberry Sauce
Rolls
Dessert
COST: $18
To help us manage food costs, we are asking for payment up front, if at all possible. Ways to pay:
Send a check (made out to the Chattanooga Music Club) to P.O. Box 21572, Chattanooga TN 37424
Pay by check at the November 20 HOLIDAY FESTIVITY event. We will have a table set up as you enter the church from the back..
Pay online using your credit/debit card or PayPal account via our Payment page.
If you cannot pay up front, but you would still like to make a reservation and pay at the door, please email info@chattanoogamusicclub.org to make your reservation. Our Telephone Committee will also be calling members for reservations starting about November 17.
We look forward to seeing you there!
On November 20, 2022, at 3 p.m., the Chattanooga Music Club will host a FREE “Holiday Festivity” program for the community at First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Chattanooga. This event will be free and open to the public, and features the Metropolitan Bells and the Choral Arts Society. This program will also feature a Sing Along and a visit from Santa Claus himself, so bring your family and friends!
To give you some information about our program, the Metropolitan Bells, under the direction of Gary Bynum, is an advanced community hand bell ensemble consisting of auditioned ringers from the Greater Chattanooga area. They perform on seven octaves of Malmark bells, and seven octaves of Malmark choir chimes. The goal of the organization is to bring advanced sacred and secular hand bell music to the community and to promote the art of hand bell ringing.
Choral Arts of Chattanooga, under the artistic direction of Darrin Hassevoort, is one of the city’s premier choral groups, founded on the cornerstones of vocal excellence and quality choral literature. Established by Dr. John Hamm in 1985, Choral Arts has been part of the music scene in Chattanooga for more than 35 years.
This event promises to be fun AND filled with wonderful music so come and kick off your Holiday season with us!
The CSO and the CMC are collaborating to bring you the Monster Mash, a celebration that's frighteningly fun for the whole family! This monstrous mashup is an all-ages Halloween show packed with surprises featuring music from Star Wars, E.T., Jaws and Harry Potter as well as seasonal activities and a costume contest. The Chattanooga Music Club’s own Dr. Sarah Harr will be playing the (restored by the CMC) Austin organ!
As with all concerts in the CSO's First Horizon Foundation Pops Series - Students & Children get in for 50% off, no tricks about it!
Ismael Sandoval | conductor
PROGRAM
Andrew Lloyd Webber | Selections from Phantom of the Opera
John Williams | Harry's Wondrous World from Harry Potter
Modest Mussorgsky | Night on Bald Mountain
John Williams | Rey's Theme from Star Wars: The Force Awakens
John Williams | Imperial March from Star Wars
Edvard Grieg | In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 461
Charles Gounod | Funeral March of a Marionette
Anatol Lidaov | Baba-Yaga, Op. 56
Camille Saint-Saëns | Danse Macabre, Op. 40
John Williams | ET: Adventures on Earth
John Williams | Jaws: Theme
Hector Berlioz | Selections from Symphonie Fantastique
Wear your scariest or funniest costume in order to win a door prize…and arrive early to participate in seasonal activities and interactive stations. Open to the public with ticket purchase. Tickets range from $15-90. Click the source link to purchase a ticket online from the CSO.
The Chattanooga Music Club will host a wonderful program of opera favorites featuring Opera Tennessee. The program is free & open to the public. Opera Tennessee is dedicated to inspiring and educating the greater Chattanooga community by providing opportunities for people of all ages and backgrounds to experience, participate in, and be impacted by opera. It has performed a number of classic works during the years, more recently including “Don Giovanni” by Mozart; Menotti’s “The Consul”; and “Gianni Schicchi” by Puccini.
The social gathering will begin at 11:00. We will have a short business meeting
at 12:00 noon to welcome new members and guests, and to make announcements
for the upcoming year. We will commence eating around 12:15, while we listen
to the music of Rimmi Miller and the New Orleans Jazz Trio with banjo,
sax and tuba.
The menu is catered by Rib and Loin of Chattanooga. Our picnic will offer:
Barbecue beef and pork with buns
Potato salad
Slaw
Baked beans
Banana pudding
Tea, lemonade, water
Charge per person: $16. Prepayment is encouraged. You can send a check (made out to the Chattanooga Music Club) to P.O. Box 21572, Chattanooga TN 37424. Or you can pay online using your credit/debit card or PayPal account via our Payment page. When paying online, select “Event Fees” in the dropdown list. Please notify us of your attendance by COB, Tuesday, September 6, so we can notify the caterer of the headcount. We look forward to seeing you there!
