Background

Chicago Chorale, a 60-voice ensemble of volunteer singers, performs repertoire from the sixteenth century to the present day.

Performances

November 1 and 2, 2008. Chicago Chorale performed J.S. Bach's Motet Komm, Jesu, Komm, Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams

Ralph Vaughan Williams OM was an English composer of symphonies, chamber music, opera, choral music, and film scores. He was also a collector of English folk music and song: this activity both influenced his editorial approach to the English Hymnal, beginning in 1904, in which he included many...

' Mass in G Minor, and Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg

Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School...

's Friede auf Erden.

April 4, 2009 and May 2, 2009: Sergei Rachmaninov's Vespers

Chicago Chorale has performed John Williams music from the Star Wars trilogy under Erich Kunzel at Ravinia in 2008. The group performed Bach's St. Matthew's Passion in 2008.

Membership

There are 60 performers split evenly into four voice parts. Members pay $100 annual dues.