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Music Events at the Chapel

All concerts are admission free. A free will offering may be made.

ALICE MILLAR BIRTHDAY CONCERT

Sunday, February 5, 2012 at 3:00 PM

Conductor with choirAlice Millar Chapel Choir
Northwestern Symphony Orchestra
Eric Budzynski, organist
Stephen Alltop, conductor

Schubert’s Mass No. 6 in E-flat, D. 950 was the
composer’s final offering in this genre, and the
grandest in scope of his six mass settings. Written at
the very end of Schubert’s life, and premiered one
year after his death, this is a “concert” Mass that
seems to draw inspiration from Beethoven’s epic
Missa Solemnis. Schubert’s forward-looking harmonies
and noble blending of choral and orchestral
forces instill this music with majesty and awe.
Alexandre Guilmant was a virtuoso of the French
Romantic school. His First Symphony for Organ and
Orchestra is powerful, fiery, and full of distinctive
colors.

EASTER SUNDAY

Sunday, April 8, 2012 at 11:00 AM
Prelude begins at 10:40 AM

Girl with balloonsAlice Millar Chapel Choir
Soloists and Strings
Michael Henoch, Oboe

Music celebrating the resurrection of Christ, including the Chorus, “Hallelujah,” from Handel’s Messiah, and the Toccata from Symphony No. 5 by Widor.

SPRING FESTIVAL CONCERT

Sunday, May 13, 2012 at 7:00 PM

Flowers on altarAlice Millar Chapel Choir and Soloists
Stephen Alltop, Conductor

This year’s Spring Festival Concert contrasts two
choral masterworks: The beloved Requiem of
Gabriel Fauré and the Utrecht Te Deum of George
Frideric Handel. Fauré’s Requiem, for solo soprano,
baritone, chorus and small orchestra, is surely one of
the loveliest and most tender settings of these
ancient texts. Handel composed this Te Deum, his
first Royal commission in England, to celebration of
the Peace of Utrecht in 1713. Alternating music of
great festivity with moments of striking solemnity,
the Utrecht Te Deum is a musical delight for all who
hear it.