The GRAMMY®-winning Pacific Chorale, led by Artistic Director Robert Istad and joined by frequent collaborator Pacific Symphony, caps its 2023-24 season with four deeply moving choral works that inspire hope, action, and compassion on Saturday, June 1, 2024, 7:30 pm, at the Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall in Costa Mesa. Leonard Bernstein’s spirited Chichester […]
Concert
Hudson Chorale Concert: Hensel, Vivaldi, Mozart
“What is a human?” Come hear Hudson Chorale give Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel’s answer in a performance of her sublime cantata Hiob, with text from The Book of Job. This work has been all but silenced for two centuries by the prominence of her famous brother. We delight in contributing to Hensel’s long overdue appreciation as […]
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 – […]
Susquehanna Chorale To Perform “A Thousand Beautiful Things”
The Susquehanna Chorale, a Pennsylvania-based adult chamber ensemble of 40 auditioned singers under the direction of Artistic Director, Founder and Conductor Linda L. Tedford, will present three performances of their spring concert, A Thousand Beautiful Things: Friday, May 17, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. at the Derry Presbyterian Church, Hershey Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 7:30 […]
Stare at the Sun presents “You Through Me” in Chicago, featuring Caroline Shaw’s “To the Hands”
Stare at the Sun, a Chicago-based chamber choir, is presenting a concert exploring the ways in which human beings form meaningful interpersonal connections as well as the means by which we partition ourselves from one another. With performances on May 18 and 19, You Through Me explores the issue of human migration and the ways […]
Dreamsong with Vox Venti – Chicago
The closing concert of Vox Venti‘s second season under the direction of ed Frazier Davis explores the concept of dreams -some fantastical, others grounded in the here and now. Works include compositions by Eriks Esenvalds, Adolphus Hailstork, Caroline Mallonee, Andre Thomas, Mari Esabel, Eric Whitacre and Ralph Vaughan Williams, plus the 1st and 2nd prize winners […]