Alan Heatherington, Music Director and Conductor

The season got off to a glorious start with Mendelssohn's magnificent oratorio St. Paul in November. Our holiday concerts delighted audiences with three performances of a beautiful program of Christmas music accompanied by a fine orchestra of oboe, harp, and strings. In February, the Chorale presented Vaughan Williams' Mass in g minor along with several other shorter Vaughan Williams works.

The season concluded with two concerts presenting what we called a Psalmfest, a wonderful program of shorter sacred works by American and Polish composers, some a cappella and some accompanied by piano or organ. Highlighting the list of American composers was Randall Thompson with four works on the program (including his famous Alleluia); the chorus also performed three works from the Jewish liturgy written by Meir Finkelstein. The final work on the program was a delightful short Mass by Stanislaw Moniuszko (1819-1872), the most beloved of composers in his native Poland. We were honored by the attendance of several members of the Polish Consulate at the April 23 concert. View this full concert program [pdf]…

FALL CONCERT

Friday, November 11
Sunday, November 13
Divine Word Chapel, Techny

Mendelssohn: St. Paul

CHRISTMAS CONCERT

Friday, December 9
Saturday, December 10
Sunday, December 11
Divine Word Chapel, Techny

Carols of the Season

with the Ars Viva String Ensemble

SPRING CONCERT (Chorale)

Friday, February 24
Sunday, February 26
Divine Word Chapel, Techny

Vaughan Williams: Mass in g minor
and English & Scottish Folk Songs by Vaughan Williams

SPRING CONCERT

Friday, April 21
Sunday, April 23
Divine Word Chapel, Techny

Psalmfest: Sacred Music from America and Poland

featuring the music of Randall Thompson and some of Poland's greatest composers
View this full concert program [pdf]…