The college choirs are coming to a church near you. Not the choirs from the six collegiate music departments featured here most often; Chaffey, Cal Poly Pomona, Claremont Joint Music Program, Mt. SAC, Pomona College, or the University of La Verne. None of those have announced choral activity closer than late February. No, these visitors are coming from outside our little space, though not from all that far away.
The first choir concert up is at 6:00 p.m. this Sunday at the United Methodist Church of Cucamonga. The choir is the Male Chorale of California Baptist University, from Riverside. The eighty plus tenors, baritones and basses of this group will be singing in support of the Imagine No Malaria effort of the United Methodist Church, which aims to eradicate a disease claiming thousands of lives every week, mostly children.
The other choir coming to town is from just over the hill, in Azusa. The Azusa Pacific University is sending the APU University Choir and Orchestra to the Pomona First Baptist Church on Sunday, 25 January, for a concert beginning at 6:30 p.m.
For the last word today, two pieces that are being prepared locally, as sung by college choirs a continent and ocean away. One performance has appeared here before, but it seemed worthy of repetition.
Brahms – How Lovely are Thy Dwellings Fair
Fauré – In Paradisum