2012-2013 Season Overview
Our 141st Season
Fall Preview Concert
This free event includes a broad variety of music, including excerpts from upcoming concerts as well as favorites from last season... a great opportunity for first-time audiences to hear what the Apollo Chorus of Chicago is all about!
Sunday, November 4, at 3:00 pm
First United Church
848 Lake St, Oak Park
Handel’s Messiah
A holiday tradition since 1879... This beloved work includes some of the most joyful and memorable music from the Baroque period. Critics and audiences alike give the Apollo Chorus rave reviews on this, our signature piece. Performed in two of Chicago’s premier spaces:
Saturday, December 8, at 7:00 pm
North Shore Center for the Performing Arts
9501 Skokie Blvd, Skokie
Sunday, December 16, at 3:00 pm
Harris Theater for Music & Dance
205 E. Randolph Drive, Chicago
Choral Classics Concert: Charpentier & Haydn
Apollo is joined by Evanston's Renovo String Orchestra for this year's Choral Classics Concert. The program features Franz Joseph Haydn's Mass in B flat major "Theresienmesse" (Hob. XXII: 12) and Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Te Deum in D major, with the famous "Eurovision" prelude. Presented in glorious Rockefeller Chapel, these brilliant sacred works are sure to delight the ears and inspire the soul.
Saturday, March 2, at 7:30 pm
University of Chicago - Rockefeller Chapel
5850 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago (Hyde Park)
Cathedral Concert: Stephen Paulus, composer-in-residence
Continuing its collaborations with some of the foremost contemporary choral composers, Apollo is joined by outstanding composer Stephen Paulus for a concert and recording series featuring a variety of the composer's recent or lesser-known works, crowned by a mass-singing of his famous "Pilgrim's Hymn" in a collaboration with other area choirs. An event not to be missed!
Friday, May 3, at 7:30 pm
Fourth Presbyterian Church
126 E. Chestnut Street, Chicago
Sunday, May 5, at 3:00 pm
Alice Millar Chapel at Northwestern University
1870 Sheridan Rd, Evanston
