In 1934, German composer Carl Orff set 24 poems found in a Benedictine monastery in 1803 to music.
The first half of the program featured John Rutter’s Magnificat, the choral setting for the Song of Mary from the Gospel of Luke.
Dream a Little Dream is quite the eclectic collection of music.
Annelies offers the listener actual selections from The Diary of Anne Frank, set to music in 2005 by British composer James Whitbourn.
In addition to well-known English carols, we are presenting several French carols, including the 17th century "What Is This Lovely Fragrance?"
This will be an elegant program of familiar music for all!
Not only is Felix Mendelssohn's esteemed St. Paul oratorio a coming-of-age work, it is also a masterpiece that secured Mendelssohn's place in the front line of German composers.
This program features music about children, not children's music, but as you can imagine there is a wealth of music out there about children around the holiday season.
This festival of folk music was performed at LaGrange Park's Nazareth Academy auditorium.
This concert of Faure's masterworks was staged in both LaGrange's St. Cletus Church and Chicago's St. Gregory the Great Church.