ELMHURST, IL — With its April 22 concert, “Spiritual Romantics”, Elmhurst Choral Union celebrates 60 years of singing. Featured music includes someone who has never appeared in their concerts–Romantic-era composer Anton Bruckner.
The April 22 concert includes someone else who first appeared at an Elmhurst Choral Union concert in 1961, soprano Kay Benzin of Elmhurst.
“Kay is the closest we come to an original singer. She joined us at the moment we changed from a student-faculty ensemble to a community-college partnership,” said Gail Mrozak, who handles marketing for Elmhurst Choral Union.
Benzin was a young mother and homemaker when she responded in fall 1961 to a local newspaper notice announcing that the ensemble was now open to singers in the community.
“It said they were singing Handel’s Messiah,” remembered Benzin, “and I’d never sung it.”
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