December’s Candlelight Carols will include traditional favorites and carols from other countries including Australia, Norway and Sweden as well as selections from our new CD From out of the Wood. We will also be featuring two new choral arrangements by Robert Boyd and Nate Adams. New this seaons is the addition of the Children's concert on December 3rd, enjoyable for the entire family.
All concerts at Baker Memorial Methodist Church, St. Charles
Saturday - December 3, 2011 3:00 pm Candlelight Carols Concert for Children
7:00 pm Candlelight Carols
Sunday - December 4, 2011 3:00 pm Candlelight Carols
7:00 pm Candlelight Carols
The Mozart Journey is a five-year musical journey in which St. Charles Singers is exploring and performing all of W.A. Mozart’s sacred choral works. These works span the life of Mozart from his first childhood compositions which stunned the world with his genius and maturity through to the climax of his musical life, the Requiem. Each concert features separate instrumental works composed by Mozart. Some of the instrumental works are lesser known, while others are quite well-known. These instrumental interludes give listeners variety and help frame the choral works.
Mozart Journey IV in March will feature three beautiful motets, K 273 Sancta Maria, K 198 Sub tuum praesidium and K 277 Alma dei creatoris and K220 Missa Brevis in C Major. It will include two instrumental divertimentos K 131 and K 138.
Venite Populi, K260
Sub tuum Praesidium, K196
Divertimento in D, K131
Intermission
Divertimento Allegro 1st, K138
Sancta Maria, mater Dei, K273
Divertimento Andante 2nd, K138
Alma Dei Creatoris, K277
Divertimento Presto 3rd, K138
Missa in C major, K220 (Sparrow Mass)
Saturday - March 10, 2012 8:00 pm Baker Memorial Methodist Church, St. Charles
Sunday -March 11, 2012 2:30 pm Holy Family Catholic Church, Chicago
The season’s conclusion will be May’s calming Music for a While, an eclectic grouping of secular and sacred music for choir. Works by Henry Purcell, Claudio Monteverdi, Nils Lindberg, Gabriel Faure, Cecilia McDowell, Benjamin Britten, Claude Debussy, Herbert Howells and Australian composer Joseph Twist will be included. We will feature a special guest artist and harpist Stephen Hartmann.
Saturday -May 19, 2012 7:30 pm Baker Memorial Methodist Church, St. Charles
Sunday -May 20, 2012 7:00 pm 4th Presbyterian Church, Chicago