The best chamber ensembles have a sixth sense about them. Every singer knows what the others are doing. They breathe as one. This kind of intimacy is not found in a large community chorus. Music of Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, and John Rutter graced the programme interspersed with poems of love and romance from three centuries.
Choral music is a marriage of words and music.
By alternating music and poetry both the sense of the poetry and the expressiveness of the music are enhanced. Subsequent themes have focused on the great mystery of Christmas seen through the lens of the Annunciation to Mary and the Passion of Christ melded with the story of the passion and death of St. Perpetua, a third century Roman martyr. Our Summer 2000 concert charmed audiences with music and poetry about courtship. Our Winter Concert looks at love through the prism of domestic bliss. Our Spring Concert will be dedicated to veterans and all those who have gone to war and never returned.