Northern Light and Thanksgiving break behind us, Chorale embarks now on a terrifying but exhilarating adventure—Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, reputed to be the most difficult work for singers in the standard repertoire
Advent Vespers at Monastery of the Holy Cross
The event bears little resemblance to Advent and Christmas commemorations one is likely to find elsewhere in our area. Far from feeding the listeners’ desire for excitement, comfort, or nostalgia, the liturgical framework, the music, and the chapel building itself (one of the best acoustic spaces in the region) inspire reflection, soul-searching, and a sense of timeless peace.
A review of our Northern Light concert!
Piteå and Sandström
The Singing Revolution
Norwegian language coaching
A tour through Northern Light territory
Edvard Grieg, Opus 74-- Fire Salmer
To Battle! Ludwig Wicki conducts The Lord of the Rings
Into the Light
It has become almost a cliché, in the realm of serious choral music, to refer to the “Swedish Choral Miracle”-- the development, since World War II, of a phenomenally high-level choral culture, based in Sweden but spreading throughout the Scandinavian countries and east to Finland and the Baltic republics.
Next: Lord of the Rings at Ravinia, August 18-19
Home again, home again, jiggety jig!
Chorale European Tour concert program
Ten Years of Growth and Change
Chorale is going to Europe!
Guest Blog: The 18th-century Curiosity Cabinet
I see Bach as very much a man of his moment, because the diversity of the B Minor Mass feels to me like his particular version of the 18th-century curiosity cabinet -- a mélange of styles and modes that gathers together, in one place, a remarkable sampler of what was most curious, interesting, and best from his contemporary and historical musical scene.