Heidelberg University Chamber Singers and Concert Choir Performance

Since the COVID pandemic, the Concert Choir has been exploring poetic and musical themes related to persevering through times of trial. In recent programs, we have envisioned a time and place where it might be safe to sing again, we have pondered music as a vehicle expressing the most profound aspects of the human experience, and we have investigated hope in its many and varied facets. In this year’s story, We Are Such Stuff As Dreams….., we will treat the subject broadly. Our study includes dreams as acts of inspiration, creativity, and wonder. Alternately, we will investigate dreams as both pleasant reveries and dreadful nightmares. In the end, our goal is to find in our dreams a way to discover and articulate our best hopes, sometimes in spite of overwhelming obstacles. Over the course of our program, we sincerely hope that our audiences will be moved by the symbiotic relationship between poetry and music and that the cumulative associations of each piece will evoke ever-developing images regarding the essence of life itself.

The program includes repertoire by Michael John Trotta, George Frideric Handel, Eric William Barnum, Johannes Brahms, Dolly Parton, Rollo Dilworth, Dan Forrest and John Rutter. The program includes three movements from Dan Forrest's Requiem for the Living. In April 2024, the Concert Choir will perform the complete work along with members of the Firelands Symphony Orchestra and Chorale.