The Chorus of Westerly harnesses the power of music to transform lives and nourish the soul of the community.
Core Commitments of The Chorus of Westerly
As a both a performing arts organization and the owners of a performing arts center (the George Kent Performance Hall), the Chorus of Westerly’s primary reasons for existence are to perform, present, and offer great musical performances and educational programs to the greater Westerly community, Rhode Island, and southeastern Connecticut.
We are also charged with preserving, maintaining, protecting, and sharing the historic George Kent Performance Hall. Kent Hall, one of the finest acoustical spaces for choral and orchestral music in New England, is as much the community’s home as it is ours. We are committed to Kent Hall’s use as a cultural center both now and in the future.
Related to our mission and purpose, our current organizational core commitments:
1. To perform and offer to our community, with artistic integrity, both the major classic works of the choral literature and new or lesser-known pieces of merit.
2. To provide educational opportunities in music to children and adults of diversebackgrounds that are comprehensive, useful, and life changing.
3. To grow as an important cultural organization of New England, and to serve as aa visible leader in both the Rhode Island and New England cultural communities.
4. To continue to preserve, maintain, and share with our community the historic George Kent Performance Hall and ensure it remains a treasured, useful, and important cultural home for generations of residents and artists to come.
5. To be a cultural organization that operates efficiently, honestly, transparently, and proactively. To operate fiscally responsibly and to be governed and directed effectively. To ensure the public’s trust and to operate with the utmost integrity.