CHORALE DETAILS ITS FIRST SEASON AT ARTS CENTER

The Pacific Chorale will present two fall concerts and an all-day choral festival in its first season at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, chorale and arts center officials have announced.

The Santa Ana-based Pacific Chorale is the third local organization to announce appearances at the center’s 3,000-seat multipurpose theater, which opens Sept. 29. Already set for the 1986-87 season are Opera Pacific and the Orange County Pacific Symphony. Schedules are expected to be released shortly for the Master Chorale of Orange County and the Orange County Philharmonic Society.

Under music director John Alexander, the 105-voice Pacific Chorale will offer “A Coronation Festival” Oct. 25. “A Christmas Festival” in collaboration with the Pacific Symphony will take place Dec. 5. Also planned is “A Choral Festival” May 9, to include a competition involving Orange County college and high school choral groups, plus an evening performance of the Berlioz “Requiem” with the Pacific Chorale and student singers.