The piece is a real challenge to learn. The piece consists of short blocks of music for each section of the Roman Catholic Mass. Musical settings of the mass can be quite long. This particular setting runs only about 15 minutes. Next weekend's program will be repeated when 36 members of the chorale travel to Ireland and Wales on May 22. Performance dates include stops in Dublin, Killarney and Clonmel, Peoria's sister city.
International tours happen once every three years.
The other thing is that singing in some of these old churches is kind of like you're participating in a work of art. It's just an amazing experience. Because they, of course, are built for sound, unlike many modern American churches. They're all built so that music sounds wonderful.