Our annual summer sing is an opportunity for all to join in singing the choral movements of a major choral masterwork while enjoying the talents of professional soloists.  This year’s featured work will be Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem.

This concert presents a choral mosaic of treasures and smaller masterpieces from the European and American traditions.  The performance will include standards and favorite works by Bach, Mozart, Biebl, Brahms, Bruckner, as well as Spirituals and contemporary choral treasures by Lauridsen, Whitacre, Forrest, Hagenberg and Runestad.

excerpts from The Messiah – George Fredric Handel

Our annual Messiah Sing is an eagerly anticipated opportunity for participants to sing the choruses of the Christmas portion of Handel’s Messiah and to enjoy talented soloists.

Music: Richard Einhorn    Film: Carl Dreyer

Chorus, Orchestra, Soloists & Pre-concert Talk with John Michalczyk, Director of Film Studies Program, Boston College

Voices of Light merges Carl Dreyer’s legendary silent film masterpiece “The Passion of Joan of Arc,” widely considered to be one of the greatest films ever made, with a live performance of a ravishing score by award-winning composer Richard Einhorn. An incredibly moving composition for solo voices, chorus and orchestra, Voices of Light has been hailed as “a triumph” (Los Angeles Times) and “an overwhelming experience” (Chicago Tribune)

“Sing Into Spring” will feature music intended to awaken and refresh all our emotional senses. Five centuries of choral music will be represented beginning with the delightful and frivolous madrigals of the 17th century through to the lush contemporary settings of romantic poetry by some of the 21st century’s youngest composers. The program will include madrigals, motets, Broadway show tunes, vocal jazz as well as classic and contemporary choral works.

Brahms’ A German Requiem is, without doubt, one of the best loved and most popular of all choral works, perhaps challenged only by the familiarity of Messiah. AVM will perform the contemporary edition and English translation by Lara Hoggard.