Chorale's second major concert of the season features The Peaceable Kingdom, an extended choral work by American composer Randall Thompson.  Commissioned by the League of Composers in 1935, it was inspired by the primitivist painting “The Peaceable Kingdom” by Edward Hicks (1780-1849).  Thompson selected eight passages from the Book of Isaiah referencing themes of peace and vividly depicts stark contrasts between good and evil, peace and war, imaginative text-setting, appropriately dissonant harmonic passages, and large sections of recitative-like declamation with luscious, lyrical sections.  The concert will also feature motets by Briggs, Centeno, Clausen, Howells, Palestrina, Pärt, and Paulus.

Saturday, March 14 at 8pm St. Vincent de Paul Parish 1010 W Webster Avenue

Sunday, March 15 at 3pm Hyde Park Union Church 5600 S Woodlawn Avenue

Our 2025-26 season concludes with a performance of the 1883 version of Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem, with orchestra and soloists. Fauré’sRequiem differs significantly from others composed during the nineteenth century in that he omitted the Dies Irae and Tuba Mirum movements, which for most composers were the dramatic center of the work, and added the Pie Jesu and In Paradisum movements.  Consequently the prevailing mood is one of peacefulness, serenity, and hope. Other composers create stronger, arguably more dramatic movements; Fauré’s art is on a far more ethereal plane.  Its unearthly beauty and tenderness have made it one of the most enduring works of our present time.  Come hear Artistic Director, Bruce Tammen, as he conducts this masterpiece and motets by Heinrich Schütz, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, and Nikolai Golovanov, in his final concert with Chicago Chorale.

Sunday, May 31 at 3pm St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church 5472 S Kimbark Avenue