Concert Choir and Chamber Singers Fall Concert

You are cordially invited to join the Heidelberg University Concert Choir and Chamber Singers for our first concert of the 2025-2026 school year. 

2025 is a momentous year in the life of Heidelberg University. It is our beloved alma mater’s 175th birthday! In observance of this significant milestone, the choir will undertake a joint tour to Germany with the Heidelberg University Symphonic Band.

This year's concert theme is "Sing, Heidelberg!", and the Concert Choir's and Chamber Singers' ensemble repertoire reflects and celebrates America's and Germany's cultural heritages. Whether directly or indirectly, almost every selection will refer in some way to singing, making music, or, in a few stark instances, silence.

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.

Chamber Singers repertoire for the afternoon will be drawn from the following selections:

• There Is a Pleasure by Matthew Armstrong
• Psallite by Michael Praetorius
• The Word Was God by Rosephayne Powell
• Pilgrims' Hymn by Stephen Paulus

Concert Choir repertoire for the afternoon will be drawn from the following selections:

• I'm Gonna Sing 'Til the Spirit Moves in My Heart by Moses Hogan
• The Passionate Shepherd to His Love by PDQ Bach
• Draw the Tear from Hopeless Love by George Frideric Handel
• The Gift to Sing by Marianne Foreman
• Roll, Jordan, Roll by Stacey V. Gibbs
• Sleep by Eric Whitacre
• Awake, Arise by Kyle Pederson
• i thank you god for most this amazing day by Dan Forrest
• Kuimba nafsi yangu by Jacob Narverud
• Will the Circle Be Unbroken by J. David Moore
• Let My Love Be Heard by Jake Runestad
• The Promise of Living by Aaron Copland
• A Gaelic Blessing by John Rutter

The concert is free, but a freewill offering will be collected.

We hope to see you there!