2023-2024 SEASON
FALL CONCERT
BRAHMS’S EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM
Saturday, October 7, 2023 • 7:30pm
St. James Cathedral
65 E Huron St, Chicago
Sunday, October 8, 2023 • 3:00pm
St. Gregory the Great Catholic Church
5545 N Paulina St, Chicago
The Chicago Chamber Choir will present Brahms’s iconic Ein Deutsches Requiem in a performance that honors tradition and explores new ways to hear this music. The elegant piano accompaniment, the subtlety of a chamber choir, and the concert setting all give a monumental work a personal and intimate feeling. The superb four-hand piano edition that replaces the orchestra was prepared by Brahms himself for the work’s premiere in London. In a further nod to this performance from 1871, a setting of I know that my redeemer liveth (by living composer Cecilia McDowall) takes the place of the fifth movement, echoing what Brahms himself would have heard.
The performance will feature pianists Talar Khosdeghian and Jeremy McElroy, and bass-baritone Dorian McCall.
HOLIDAY CONCERT
CAROLS WITH THE CHOIR: SONGS OF HOME AND HOPE
Saturday, December 9, 2023 • 7:30pm
Queen of the Apostles Parish
2330 W Sunnyside Ave, Chicago
Sunday, December 10, 2023 • 3pm
St. Ita Catholic Church
5500 N Broadway, Chicago
Themes of home and hope permeate the holidays as we visit relatives, and give thanks for each other. The choir explores these themes – both the comfort we find in them and the discomfort of their absence – through poetry and music. Carols old and new respond to the poetry that describes the human need for music, the longing for a distant home, the relief of acceptance, and questions what makes home, home. Works about snow and angels, home and loss, and love and acceptance create a space to open our hearts and our homes. Morten Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium and Franz Biebl’s Ave Maria anchor a program that promises to bring hope to all who long for home.
SPRING CONCERT
THE SOUND OF SILENCE
Saturday, April 20, 2024 • 7:30pm
Queen of the Apostles Parish
2330 W Sunnyside Ave, Chicago
Sunday, April 21, 2024 • 3pm
St. Ita Catholic Church
5500 N Broadway, Chicago
What does it mean to be silent? And what does it mean to be heard?
Our spring concert explores these themes juxtaposing Benjamin Britten’s iconic Hymn to St. Cecilia - a song celebrating musicians and sound - with arrangements of two more recent songs: Depeche Mode’s Enjoy the Silence and Simon & Garfunkel’s The Sound of Silence. Living choral composers round out the program including Vanessa Land’s plea to “let in your voice” and Saunder Choi’s setting of Emma Lazarus' The New Colossus which begs us not to be silent in the face of those seeking refuge.
Join us for a moving and transfixing concert.