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Welcome to the 2007-2008 season of the Boston University Choral Society!
To those members returning for another music season, I look forward to seeing you soon and continuing
our sojourn. To those of you considering joining the Choral Society, I eagerly anticipate meeting you and welcoming you to our music community. Regardless of your background—if you love making music with
others through song, if you have never sung in a choir but also wanted to try in a fun and comfortable setting,
or if you are looking for inspiration, beauty, community or friendship—the Choral Society may be the
place for you.
Our 2007-2008 season features a wide variety of invigorating and inspiring music:
Fall Concert
December 9, 2007
Old World Classics — New World Discoveries
Music from Europe and Latin America
Presenting a wide variety of works—old and new—music will include:
- A lively motet by Telemann (a late-Baroque composer)
- Haydn’s Kleine Orgelmesse (“small organ mass”), with strings
- English folksong settings by Ralph Vaughan Williams
- Music by Latin American composers Pablo Casals and Heitor Villa-Lobos
- Navidad Nuestra – a 6-movement cantata by Ariel Ramirez, with guitars, bass, and percussion, using dances native to Latin America
POPS Concert
February 2008
Performed with the BU Jazz Band - our first collaboration together!
Music to be announced.
Masterworks Concert, with orchestra
May 2nd, 2008
MOZART Requiem
A true 'mastework' full of drama, and featuring chorus throughout!
There will be even many opportunities for activities as a group—from pizza party rehearsals, to watching Amadeus—the movie that creatively tells a story of Mozart’s composition of the Requiem—to attending
Boston concerts together with other Choral Society members and me—getting a sneak peak into the music before enjoying it together.
I look forward to seeing you at the first rehearsal on September 11 at 8:00 pm in CFA 171 and
starting off this exciting year together!
Until then,
Timothy Westerhaus
timothyw@bu.edu
