The Contra Costa Chorale presents their spring program, “Living, Laughing, Loving” on Friday, May 9 at 7:30pm at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley, and on Sunday, May 11 at 5:00pm at the Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church. The program includes a five-century span of compositions by Aaron Copland, Eric Whitacre, Gwyneth Walker, Andrea Ramsey, Joan Szymko, and others. Drawing upon texts by Helen Keller, John Muir, Wendell Berry, and Rabindranath Tagore, the Chorale invites the listener to consider the many ways music can be used as a tool to express the ineffable in today’s world. At the center of the program, a 2023 work by composer Alex Berko titled “Sacred Place” calls us to consider the environment as a living place of safety, comfort, and solace. Laugh along with us as we present thepoetry of Ogden Nash set to music, as well as a Renaissance frottola of Rossino Mantovano. Reflect with us on themes of love in sung love-letters to our mother figures on Mother’s day weekend, as well as selections from the Liebeslieder Walzes of Johannes Brahms.
We hope you will join us for a program that speaks to the power of music- both as a language of a wide range of emotions and as a vehicle for expressing big ideas. Make plans now (and invite someone you love) to join us for “Living, Laughing, Loving” in May.
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