NaperVoice presents Gather in Gratitude 3: Everything Sings! on November 17

The third in NaperVoice’s annual offering of Gather In Gratitude concerts just before the Thanksgiving holiday includes a variety of new repertoire for this performance from classical, folk, jazz, and musical theater genres. Selections will not only reflect our thanks for the land, the heavens, the waters, and all living things through great poetry and music, but also how aspects of the universe serve as metaphor and guide for the events of our daily life as well. Composers represented include Johannes Brahms, Aaron Copland, Ola Gjeilo, Elizabeth Alexander, Dan Forrest, Craig Hella Johnson, and Gwynneth Walker.

Guest Ensemble for this concert is Voices in Plainfield (VIP), Plainfield’s premiere community youth choir.  Sophia Cruz, a talented local high school cellist, will also accompany NaperVoice on one work and present a cello solo. Four professional percussionists will accompany the choir on Dan Forrest’s Nocturnes.

NaperVoice, a fully-auditioned philanthropic choir composed of 36 professional and volunteer singers from more than twenty Chicago-area communities, is conducted by Philip Spencer, Founding Conductor/Artistic Director, and accompanied by Collaborative Percussionist Shelley May Hutchison and Collaborative Pianist Dr. Zachary Zwahlen. Daniel Cruz is the Conducting Intern for this concert. 

Proceeds will benefit this concert’s designated local charitable organization, The Conservation Foundation, with a mission to improve the health of our communities by preserving and restoring open space and natural lands, protecting rivers and watersheds, and promoting stewardship of our environment in northeastern Illinois. 

Go to napervoice.org for more information and tickets.