Alan Heatherington, Music Director and Conductor

The concerts were resoundingly successful, and Chicago Tribune reviewer Dan Tucker observed: "In their hands the [Brahms] Requiem... became a living message of peace and reassurance."

Local composer Lee Kesselman took a bow at each of our first concert performances this season, as his Let Peace Descend opened the program that also included Eric Zeisl's powerful Requiem Ebraico and Haydn's Paukenmesse.

Our Christmas concerts drew their usual enthusiastic crowds, and the season concluded with an all-Brahms program featuring the Requiem along with the lesser-known but very beautiful Nänie and two unaccompanied choral motets performed by the CMS Chorale. The concerts were resoundingly successful, and Chicago Tribune reviewer Dan Tucker observed: "In their hands the [Brahms] Requiem... became a living message of peace and reassurance."

FALL CONCERT

Friday, November 8
Sunday, November 10
Divine Word Chapel, Techny

Haydn: Mass in Time of War (Paukenmesse)
Zeisl: Requiem Ebraico
Kesselman: Let Peace Descend

with the Ars Viva! Orchestra

CHRISTMAS CONCERT (Chorale)

Friday, December 6
St. Anne's Catholic Church, Barrington

Chicago Master Singers Chorale presents Music for the Christmas Season

CHRISTMAS CONCERT

Friday, December 13
Saturday, December 14
Sunday, December 15
Divine Word Chapel, Techny

Carols of the Season

with members of the Ars Viva! Orchestra

SPRING CONCERT

Friday, April 25
Sunday, April 27
Divine Word Chapel, Techny

Brahms: Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Mühseligen?
Brahms: Ach, arme Welt

performed by the Chicago Master Singers Chorale

Brahms: Nänie
Brahms: Ein Deutches Requiem

Amanda Halgrimson, soprano
Peter Van De Graaff, baritone
with the Ars Viva! Orchestra