We are returning to St. Mary's, Muskegon's oldest church and an acoustic gem.  We simply sound better in St. Mary's.  The concert is Saturday, March 2 at 7:30 P.M.  Tickets - $10 general admission and $8 students/seniors will be available at Meyer Music beginning February 18.

This Summer the White Lake Chamber Music Festival under the auspices of the Music & Performing Arts Branch of the Arts Council of White Lake is sponsoring a concert that involves both us and you.  We are going to invite all interested choral musicians to join us in singing great sacred choruses.  We will rehearse in the afternoon on Saturday, August 3 and present the concert in the evening.  The Chamber Choir will sing the first half of the concert and all of us who have rehearsed will sing several great choral classics together.  We will explore Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms. How's that for a list of stars?  We are really looking forward to this new venture.  The choir have already decided that the dress for this concert will be short sleeve shirts of the coolest material, no ties, and perhaps even shorts.  Stay tuned on that matter.

The Chamber Choir thanks everyone who attended our recent concert at St. Mary's

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Our next concert is at St. Mary's Church in Muskegon.  With two exceptions, the concert will be drawn from the unaccompanied choral repertoire of the 19th and 20th centuries.  We will look at the contributions of F. Melius Christiansen, called "The father of unaccompanied choral singing in the United States,"  a choral transcription of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, and the old Russian Orthodox chant, Hospodi Pomilui. These will be followed by a few early American hymn settings as arranged by Robert Shaw and Alice Parker, and a tune from the historic 1844 American Hymnal, The Sacred Harp. The sacred portion will close with a setting of Psalm 20:2-3 by the virtually unknown Polish Baroque composer Gregorz Gorczycki. The second half of the concert will note the 100th anniversary of the birth of the great English composer, Benjamin Britten, with the singing of his Five Flower Songs, Opus 47.  These delightful pieces were composed in 1950 to celebrate the twenty-fifth wedding anniversary of friends and supporters of the composer, Leonard and Dorothy Elmhirst.

St. Mary's is located at the corner of 1st Street and Webster Avenue in downtown Muskegon.