End of the line, maybe? The schools are almost done, and most church choirs are winding down to summer. What have we left?
Quite a lot, actually. By the end of a six week period that began with the last weekend of April, the choirs of all six colleges and universities in the area from Rancho Cucamonga to Walnut will have sung once or twice, and the two larger area chorales will have marshalled major efforts for season capping performances.
Holding off on the latter and skipping news of a half dozen concerts now past, the next official event will be at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, 10 May in Rancho Cucamonga. The Chaffey College Concert Choir and Ensemble Singers will present “Love and Loss” in the Chaffey College Theatre.
The next day, on Sunday 11 May, the University of La Verne Chamber Singers will present “Choral Classics” in Morgan Auditorium, at the University of La Verne.
The remaining college and University choral concerts come at the end of May. First will be the Cal Poly Pomona Kellogg Chamber singers and University Concert Choir concert 8:00 p.m., on Wednesday, 28 May, at Cal Poly Pomona. On the next two days, Friday and Saturday, choral ensembles from Mount San Antonio College will perform in the Mount SAC Spring Celebration of Choral Music at the MSAC Feddersen Recital Hall at the college, in walnut.
There will be more choruses in June, involving a couple hundred singers with orchestras and soloists, and opportunity for any number of the same to sing some Puccini, all which will have to wait for a later post. In the meantime, this would seem a great time to take kids to college to hear a choir, to show them that there can be music in life after high school.
A final note for those those who knew him is that the services for our friend Don Bowers are to be held this morning, Saturday, 10 May, at the Pilgrim Congregational Church in Pomona, 600 North Garey Avenue.