Chicago a cappella (Photo by Blake Swanson Media)
Choral music lovers, grab your calendars for WFMT’s recommended events this fall. Events are listed in chronological order with links for more information below.
Chicago a cappella
Lamentations
September 27–October 6
Uniting Voices
Canto Latino: Alma del Sur
October 5
Bella Voce
Iberia and the Americas
October 5+6
Lira Ensemble
LIRA! Polish Music, Song & Dance!
October 5
Vox Venti
Loving and Thoughtful Hands
October 13
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Mozart’s Coronation Mass
October 17–19
Newberry Consort
I Tremble Not – Music from Jacobean England for Viols, Brass, and Voices
October 18–20
Constellation Men’s Ensemble
Glee Pub: Brews & Broadway
October 25+26
St. Charles Singers
Pause, Reflect and Ponder
October 26+27
Chicago Master Singers
Meditations
October 26+27
La Caccina
The Lark
November 1+2
Consonance
Verdi’s Requiem
November 1+3
Chicago Chamber Choir
Bram Stoker’s Dracula in Concert
November 9
Dunedin Consort
Bach’s St. John Passion
November 15
Music of the Baroque
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
November 24+25
The Tallis Scholars
In Dulci Jubilo
December 9
Playlist
Howard Helvey: O lux beatissima
Chicago a cappella
Vicente Lusitano: Allor che ignuda
Bella Voce
Liza Calisesi Maidens, conductor
Cole Reyes: Lucis Creator optime
Vox Venti
Ed Frazier Davis, conductor
Phillip Seward: Rivers
The Lira Ensemble
Franz Joseph Haydn: “Die Himmel erzählen die Ehre Gottes” from Die Schöpfung
Ruth Ziesak, soprano
Herbert Lippert, tenor
René Pape, bass
Chicago Symphony Chorus and Orchestra
Margaret Hillis, chorus director
Sir Georg Solti, conductor
Charles Villiers Stanford: Beati quorum via
St. Charles Singers
Jeffrey Hunt, conductor
Erik Pearson: To Look at Things in Bloom
Constellations Men’s Ensemble
John Dowland: Can She Excuse My Wrongs, Earl of Essex Galliard
Newberry Consort
Egil Hovland: Stay with Us
Gary Wendt, organ
Chicago Master Singers
John C. Hughes, conductor
Sydney Guillaume: Chapo Pou Fanm
La Caccina
Lavinia Kell Parker: Soli Deo Gloria
Marybeth Kurnat, soprano
Consonance
Michael D. Costello, conductor
Johann Sebastian Bach: Chorale, “Ach Herr, lass dein lieb Engelein” from St. John Passion
Dunedin Consort
John Butt, conductor
Thomas Tallis: If Ye Love Me
The Tallis Scholars
George Frideric Handel: “In glory high, in might serene” from Jephtha
Music of the Baroque
Dame Jane Glover
