Chicago Chorale 2007-2008 Season
Vigil for Peace
Saturday, May 17, 8 pm
Featuring Arnold Schoenberg's Friede auf Erden (Peace on Earth)
Free and open to the public, no tickets required
Monastery of the Holy Cross
3111 S. Aberdeen St. (Directions)
Chorale will present two programs of music this season at the Monastery of the Holy Cross in Bridgeport. These programs offer audiences a chance to experience the marvelous acoustics of the Monastery's church and appreciate masterpieces of the choral tradition in the liturgical context for which they were composed. This year's programs will offer a diverse range of repertoire, from Renaissance motets to Arnold Schoenberg's Friede auf Erden, one of the last major pieces written before the composer's turn away from tonal composition. These services are free and open to the public, no tickets required.
2008-2009 Season
(Please note: subscriptions and individual tickets will go on sale in June.)
Music for All Saints: Mass in G, Ralph Vaughan Williams
Saturday, November 1, 7:30 pm
Hyde Park Union Church
5600 S. Woodlawn Ave.
Sunday, November 2, 3 pm
St. John's Church-Lombard
InChoir: Messiah
Saturday, December 6, 9:30 am
Hyde Park Union Church
5600 S. Woodlawn Ave.
G. F. Handel, Messiah
Sunday, December 14, 2 pm and 7:30 pm
Church of the Holy Family
1080 W. Roosevelt Rd.
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Vespers
Saturday, April 4, 7:30 pm
Church of the Holy Family
1080 W. Roosevelt Rd.
"The choir boasts an enviable blending of the different voice parts, with basses and sopranos each tucked nicely into the overall design. They displayed an admirable firmness of declaration in Bach's opening chorale, and, in another chorale later in the cantata, a remarkable ensemble legato that floated from one extended phrase to the next." --Marc Geelhoed, November 4, 2007
"Bach's Jesu, meine Freude is the kind of piece that Chorale does so well. Careful diction, clear moving parts, lots of fire and fury: it was all there." --M.L. Rantala, November 7, 2007