Just for once the Saint Louis Chamber Chorus lets it hair down with a concert titled “Classic Pop” that comprises some of the most skilled choral arrangements of popular songs of the past century. Songwriters such as Cole Porter, Billy Joel and Taylor Swift receive fresh interpretations by Richard Rodney Bennett, Orin Johnson, and Andre […]
Missouri
William Baker Festival Singers Season opening Concert – Kansas City
The award-winning William Baker Festival Singers opens its 27th concert season with a program called “I Believe!” on Sunday, 3 November 2024, 3:00 CST, at the historic St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 1307 Holmes Street in downtown Kansas City, MO. The program, conducted by Dr. Baker, will include “Let All Mortal Flesh” of Edward Bairstow; “Svete […]
Ernest Bloch Sacred Service in Kansas City
The 165-voice Summer Singers of Kansas will join with cantor, Dr. Joshua Markley, organist Dr. Jacob Hofeling, and percussionist Mark Lowry, to perform Ernest Bloch’s spectacular AVODATH HAKODESH (Sacred Service) in Kansas City’s incomparable Helzberg Hall of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. Dr. William O. Baker will conduct the performance. The Summer Singers […]
Summer Singers of Lee’s Summit – Ramirez Misa Criolla
The Summer Singers of Lee’s Summit, under the baton of Music Director Jennifer Lahasky performs their 10th anniversary summer concert honoring music of the Hispanic tradition, including Ariel Ramirez: MISA CRIOLLA, Paul Page: DONDE HAY; and several other works. Joining in the performance will be harpsichordist Geoffrey Wilcken, soloist Daniel Baker, charango guitarist Adamo Espinoza, […]
Chant Claire & William Baker Festival Singers in Kansas City
The William Baker Festival Singers will host the 70-voice Chant Claire, an up and coming choral ensemble from Milwaukee, in a special joint concert in Kansas City. The performance will be Sunday, June 9, 3:00 PM, at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 1307 Holmes Street in downtown Kansas City, MO. The choirs became well acquainted in 2023 […]
Britten’s “Voices for Today” receives rare performance
The rarely heard ‘mini-cantata’, “Voices for Today” (op. 75), will be given its St. Louis premiere on May 26. This 1964 commission from the United Nations provides the climax to both the concert and our “Choral Atlas” season in general. It will be complemented by Sydney Guillaume’s “Alleluia Amen,” which – like the Britten – […]