Three beautiful programs
to mark Vallejo Choral Society’s 106th Season
& our first with new Artistic Director Julia Morris!
Program 1:
American Luminaries
Margaret Bonds’ The Ballad of the Brown King, written in honor of the African king, Balthazar, with text by Langston Hughes.
Randall Thompson’s Frostiana: Seven Country Songs, featuring poetry by Robert Frost set as a suite of choral art songs
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 7 PM
Community Congregational
1305 W 2nd Street, Benicia
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 3 PM
Springbrook Masonic Temple
101 Temple Way, Vallejo
Program 2:
Gala & Concert
Shakespeare in Song, featuring “Three Shakespeare Songs” by Roger Quilter, and George Shearing’s “Songs and Sonnets,” a jazzy and fresh setting of Shakespeare’s texts for choir.
SUNDAY, March 10, 2 PM
Springbrook Masonic Temple
101 Temple Way, Vallejo
Program 3:
In Aeternum
This program features a Requiem setting that has been largely overlooked throughout history, despite its excellent craftsmanship and beauty: Michael Haydn’s Missa pro Defunctis.
SATURDAY, MAY 18, 7 PM
Benicia
SUNDAY, MAY 19, 3 PM
Vallejo