Choralescence

February is a normally quiet choral month. Most big choruses and colleges begin their spring concerts in March, and church choirs are mainly planning major efforts for the week of Easter. This year is much the same, but there are some choral kind of events, the first of which is only a few hours away as these words are being written.

The Repertory Opera Company of Pomona will hold its Serenades of Love at 4 o’clock this afternoon at First Christian Church of Pomona. The ROC shares its singers with local choirs and chorales, which is one reason for mentioning them there, besides their deliberate work to incorporate area kids in their productions. The kids are there today, and of course some opera choruses.

On Sunday (8 February) the small ensemble Cantori Sine Nomine, from Chorale Bel Canto, will appear at the University of La Verne to sing Musikalische Exequien by Heinrich Schütz. The concert is at 4 p.m. There is some conflicting information between the Chorale Bel Canto web site and that of the ULV music department regarding tickets for the event. An inquiry with the chorale contact address may be in order before choosing to come.

Under the category of events a bit outside of the area involving locals, there is the Brehm Center Festival of Worship at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels on 15 February, at 7 p.m. This word came to us from a local choir director whose singers are going.

Ash Wednesday follows on the 18th, for which there may be special choir music, but there’s no news here yet. If you know of something…

The first spring concert of the six local collegiate programs will be on the last Sunday of February, at 3:00 p.m. in Garrison Theater, Claremont. The Claremont Concert Choir & The Claremont Chamber Choir are presenting ‘Folksongs From Around the World.’

The final bit of choral music known to be in the between two colleges area is part of the Musicians Club program at Chino United Methodist Church at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, 24 February. The program is all Brahms, of which about half is choral music.

There was no concert on the first holiday of February, one long known in other parts of the world as Candlemas. Here it involves burrowing animals and weather forecasts, but not choral music. The ancient carol used by Britten called it Candelmesse, making sense of this essay’s title. The last words today are given to people than Britten.

Videte Miraculum – Motet for Candlemas by Tallis

Humming chorus, Puccini

Heinrich Schütz – Musicalische Exequien

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

The longest night of the year in the northern half of the globe has just passed, quickly followed as always by the longest night of choral singing. The colleges and chorales are done for now, the carolers and wassail singers nearly so, now the last course features church choirs from one end of our area to the other. The services below are by no means all the places choirs will sing tonight, so you might want to call around it the times places and music being sung in the list below doesn’t suit your spirit and ear. On the other hand, there is Bach and Rutter and Handel and carols and lessons (and candles) among the all choices you have for both inner and outer ear.

You probably caught some choir, or sang in some kind of choir in the past four or five days. Maybe you joined hundreds of other in Little Bridges on Sunday, singing Handel. Or heard Pinkham sung in church on Sunday. If so (or if not) here are links to some of that music, and to some other music of the season that you probably won’t hear except here. Enjoy!

Christmas Cantata – Pinkham

In Dulci Jubilo – J.S. Bach

Verbum Caro factum est – John Sheppard

Rutter Christmas Lullaby – Cambridge Singers

Hallelujah! – Handel

Wednesday 24 December
3:30 p.m. / 4:00 p.m., St. Anthony Catholic Church, Lessons and Carols with choir, 4 p.m. mass, Upland
6:00 p.m., St. Joseph Catholic Church, Spanish mass with choir, Upland
6:00 p.m., Upland Brethren in Christ Church, Candlelight Service with choir, Upland
6:30 p.m. / 7:00 p.m., Pilgrim Congregational Church, at 6:30 pre-service special music, Candlelight Service at 7 p.m. with choir, Pomona
7:00 p.m. service, Bethel United Church of Christ, Candlelight Service with choir and quartet, Ontario
7:00 p.m., Chino United Methodist Church, service with choir, Chino
7:00 p.m., Claremont United Methodist Church, Lessons & Carols with Choir, Claremont
7:00 p.m., Ontario First United Methodist Church Choir, Christmas Eve Candlelight service, Ontario
8:00 p.m., First Christian Church, Communion and Candlelight Service with choir, Pomona
9:00 p.m., La Verne Church of the Brethren, Candlelighting Service, music of Kirchner and Rutter, La Verne
9:00 p.m., United Methodist Church of Cucamonga, anthems by Larson, Cucamonga
9:30 p.m. / 10:00 p.m., St. Anthony Catholic Church, Lessons and Carols with choir, 10 p.m. mass, Upland
10:00 p.m., St. Ambrose Episcopal Church, Cantata “Uns ist ein Kind geboren,” Kuhnau, choir and string quartet, Claremont
10:00 p.m., First United Methodist Church, service with choir, Upland
10:30 p.m./11:00 p.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, 10:30 Christmas Eve Overture, then at 11 p.m., Choral Eucharist, Upland
11:00 p.m., Claremont United Church of Christ, ‘Hallelujah’ chorus, Handel, with congregation, Claremont
11:00 p.m. First Presbyterian Church, Christmas Eve Candlelight Service with choir, Upland
11:00 p.m., Grace Lutheran Church, Candlelight Carol Service, music of Bach, Upland

Christmas, Thursday, 25 December
10:00 a.m.., St. Joseph Catholic Church, English mass with choir, Upland
12:00 p.m.., St. Joseph Catholic Church, Spanish mass with choir, Upland

With these four days, Saturday through Tuesday, we start tilting from chorale and college concerts to church choirs and services. That doesn’t mean the more classical composers are done – this weekend brings us the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Vivaldi Gloria on this season (two in Claremont, one in Diamond Bar), and not too far away singers we know will bring us the first of four performance of the Messiah by Handel, and some parts of that work are certain to appear elsewhere.

Saturday, 13 December
3:30 p.m., Pomona First Baptist Church choir, orchestra and other ensembles, “Come Celebrate Christmas!” Pomona
6:45 p.m., Ayala High School “Madrigal Feaste,” Chino Hills
7:00 p.m., Pomona First Baptist Church choir, orchestra and other ensembles, “Come Celebrate Christmas!” Pomona
7:30 p.m., Mountainside Master Chorale, ‘A Baroque Christmas,” Claremont

Sunday, 14 December
9:30 a.m., First United Methodist Church of Upland, choral concert in service, Upland
10:00 a.m., Claremont United Church of Christ, services with special music & choir, Claremont
10:00 a.m., First Presbyterian of Upland choir with chamber orchestra, “Come and Receive!” Upland
10:00 a.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church of Upland, service with special anthems by Choristers and St. Mark’s Choir, Upland
10:30 a.m. La Verne Church of the Brethren, special anthem by Kirchner, La Verne
3:30 p.m., Mountainside Master Chorale, ‘A Baroque Christmas,” Claremont
3:30 p.m., Pomona First Baptist Church choir and orchestra and other ensembles, “Come Celebrate Christmas!” Pomona
5:30 p.m. St. Mark’s Episcopal “Advent Lessons and Carols,” with choirs from St. John’s La Verne, St. Ambrose Claremont, St. Paul’s Pomona, Christ Church Parish, Ontario and St. Mark’s, Upland.
5:45/6:30 p.m., Northminster Presbyterian Church, “Christ’s Love in any Language,” includes the Vivaldi Gloria, Diamond Bar

Tuesday, 16 December
7:00 p.m., Chino Valley Community Chorus, 2014 Holiday Concert, Chino

A little farther away
When our local ensembles, singers, directors are appearing outside the area, you are encouraged to consider following them as well. Here are two performances involving one of the latter for you to consider.

Saturday, 13 December
8:00 p.m., Inland Master Chorale, Handel’s Messiah, Redlands
Sunday, 14 December
3:00 p.m., Inland Master Chorale, Handel’s Messiah, Redlands

And off we go! The first choral feast of the choral season has begun already, with Vivaldi last night in Claremont, and more tonight over in Pomona and Walnut with the choirs of Cal Poly and Mount SAC, all just part of the first course. There are churches in action someplace to be determined, but the list begins with the other levels of choir between two colleges, being all of our local colleges, our local chorales and high schools too.

Composers on the menu include Bach, Biebl, Von Bingen, Britten, Bruckner, Buxtehude, Charpentier, Gabrieli, Gallus, Handel, Monteverdi, Pachebel, Pinkham, Praetorius, Rutter, Schutz, (more) Vivaldi, and more than enough madrigalists to satisfy your ear, just from the non-church choruses, just through Sunday the 14th of December.

And how about the church choirs? You’ll have to wait a few more days for news of churches and news of other choral activity (including some Handel, certainly!). However, last December over fifty services and special concerts with choir were discovered and listed here, so fear not about your second course. (Do feel free to announce yours!)

Let us give the last words to Vivaldi and Bruckner, with music you can hear in the next ten days.

Vivaldi Gloria

Bruckner Ave Maria

Thursday, 4 December
6:00 p.m., Mount San Antonio College 17th Annual Wassail Dinner and Concert (ticket sales close Dec.1), Walnut
8:00 p.m., Cal Poly Kellogg Chamber Singers & University Concert Choir, Pomona

Friday, 5 December
6:00 p.m., Mount San Antonio College 17th Annual Wassail Dinner and Concert (ticket sales close Dec.1), Walnut
7:00 p.m., The Claremont Concert Choir, The Claremont Chamber Choir, Pinkham Christmas Cantata, Gabrieli, Schütz, other works, Claremont
7:30 p.m., University of La Verne Holiday Barbershop Show, La Verne
8:00 p.m., Pomona College Choir, music of O’Regan, Britten, McGlynn, Claremont

Saturday, 6 December
3:00 p.m., The Claremont Chorale, ”Mary’s Lullaby,” Claremont
6:00 p.m., Mount San Antonio College 17th Annual Wassail Dinner and Concert (ticket sales close Dec.1), Walnut
7:30 p.m., Chaffey College “Winter Choral Concert,” Rancho Cucamonga
7:30 p.m., The Claremont Chorale, ”Mary’s Lullaby,” Claremont

Sunday, 7 December
3:00 p.m., Pomona College Choir, music of O’Regan, Britten, McGlynn, Claremont
6:00 p.m., University of La Verne, “Winter Choral Showcase,” La Verne

Wednesday, 10 December
6:45 p.m., Ayala High School “Madrigal Feaste,” Chino Hills

Thursday, 11 December
6:00 p.m., Upland High School 28th Annual Elizabethan Dinner, (call for correct time), Upland
6:45 p.m., Ayala High School “Madrigal Feaste,” Chino Hills

Friday, 12 December
12:15 p.m., The Claremont Chamber Choir, Friday Noon Concert Series, Claremont
6:00 p.m., Upland High School 28th Annual Elizabethan Dinner, (call for correct time), Upland
6:45 p.m., Ayala High School “Madrigal Feaste,” Chino Hills

Saturday, 13 December
6:45 p.m., Ayala High School “Madrigal Feaste,” Chino Hills
7:30 p.m., Mountainside Master Chorale, ‘’A Baroque Christmas,” Claremont

Sunday, 14 December
3:30 p.m., Mountainside Master Chorale, “A Baroque Christmas,” Claremont
5:45/6:30 p.m., Northminster Presbyterian Church, “Christ’s Love in any Language,” includes the Vivaldi Gloria, Diamond Bar

Almost without warning, it seems the local choral season is beginning. A couple of local colleges have choral stuff going on here, a couple of college choirs will come to the area for church concerts, and there are a number of events both choral and not choral tied to local choral singers and directors that we’re going to include today.

There’s activity in Redlands today and tomorrow that involves one of our local choral friends, the first concert in the 35th season of the Inland Master Chorale, “A Lighter Side of Masses – Jazz, Gospel, Latin Folk,” with music by Chilcott, Ray and Ramirez. The Master Chorale sings at 8 p.m. tonight, and 3 p.m. tomorrow. Or you could stay in our area for a non-choral event tomorrow, at the Rock of the Foothills Lutheran Church in La Verne, where Dr. Sae Wan Wang will present a concert on their new Johannus organ at 4 p.m. Sunday, the 19th. News of this comes to us from a couple of local chorale singers, who tell us it’s free and there’s a reception following.

Friday the 24th offers the first college choruses of the season, with the first of two Mount San Antonio College Choral Concerts, at 7:30 p.m. The next day you could go to the second of these concerts at Mount SAC, also at 7:30 in the evening, or you could travel to West Los Angeles to hear Jouyssance, an early music ensemble with local singer connections, present ‘Mostly Monteverdi,’ at 8 p.m. Your second chance for the Jouyssance concert will be in Pasadena at 4 p.m. the next day, on the 26th.

One week later we’ll be featuring ‘home teams and visitors,’ with college choirs all in concert at the same hour on Sunday the 2nd of November. In La Verne, the ULV Chamber Singers and ULV Barbershop Singers will offer ‘Songs of Remembrance’ at the University of La Verne at 6 p.m. Simultaneously, two of the oft traveling ensembles from California Baptist University will be singing at different local churches. Crosspoint Church in Chino will host the CBU University Choir and Orchestra at 6 p.m., while the CBU women’s ensemble, New Song, will present a 6 p.m. concert at Trinity United Methodist Church of Pomona. Donations made at this latter concert will go to ‘Imagine No Malaria,’ a campaign to eradicate this scourge on humanity.

The news here for the rest of November isn’t particularly choral, but has definite choral connections. Not only does the Repertory Opera Company of Pomona offer opportunities for chorus members to throw off their choral restraints, but the company has been particularly willing to be a good neighbor to local chorales in mutual promotion. The ROC production of Verdi’s Falstaff runs from the 8th to the 22nd of November in Pomona. You might spot some well traveled local chorale members in the ROC chorus, if you look for them.

Finally, the Southland Symphony Orchestra will present ‘Mozart and More,’ with music of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven, at 4 p.m. on 23 November. Dr. Mann, the conductor of the SSO, wears many hats, such as professor, concert violist, pastor, and choir director at Bethel UCC in Ontario, that last bringing her organization to here, along with her willingness to be a part of the greater musical community.

With summer dormancy upon us, local choral types eager for something need to be willing to search far and wide for music to their taste. This month there are a few musical happenings on the first four weekends of August. These activities begin here between the colleges and end on the far side of Los Angeles. Each of the events, however near or far from our own area, does share this tie with us – among the people singing or working at the event is someone who also sings with us or leads us in singing here.

This Saturday we have the Cherubini Requiem as a graduate recital with choir and orchestra at Pilgrim Congregational Church in Pomona. That’s at 7:30 p.m. on 2 August, and it features involves singers usually found in local chorales or maybe local opera.

The following Friday and Saturday there are choral concerts in Pasadena and Glendale courtesy of Cal State Los Angeles. On Friday, 8 August at 7:30 p.m., the ‘CSULA Graduate Choral Concert’ is happening at the Center for the Arts, Pasadena City College, in Pasadena. At 4 p.m. on Saturday, 9 August, the Glendale City Church will be the site for the CSULA Final Summer Choral Concert. Both events are presumably related to the three summer master’s program in Choral Conducting at CSULA and are tied to us because the director of that program also directs one of our local chorales.

The following weekend we can come home to Rancho Cucamonga with “Of Wings and Prayer – a concert against malaria,” a benefit concert at 3:00 p.m. Sunday, 17 August, held at the United Methodist Church of Cucamonga, AKA ‘The Old Stone Church.’ The music is presented by the Renaissance Club and by Choralescence, with singers involved who normally direct or sing in local church choirs, or with two of our local chorales, or the Repertory Opera Company, none of which organizations being otherwise involved in this event. The composers include Byrd, Gallus, Vauter, Gibbons, Arcadelt, Morley and at least one person born after Bach.

A couple of local singers are involved with Jouyssance, an ensemble specializing in early music that is typically found in Fullerton, Pasadena or West Los Angeles. Perhaps someday or some year soon we’ll be able to hear them bring this music to a venue nearer to us, but for now, meaning Sunday the 24th, anyone interested in their Summer Early Music Singalong of Palestrina and Tallis will need to travel to West Los Angeles by 3 p.m. to take part.

Not necessarily choral:

Let’s put in a good word here for our friends at the Repertory Opera Company in Pomona, who have provided a real change of pace for some area choral types (at least four names come to mind), and are continually demonstrating how outreach can work in our community. The ROC will have some chorus involved in their August event, the ‘Manly Men of Opera’ Concert at 5 p.m. at on 17 August, at First Christian Church of Pomona.

The last news today is not of a concert but of a passing. Carson Hawk’s life will be celebrated Sunday, 3 August at 12:30 p.m. at Pilgrim Congregational Church of Pomona, where he and his late wife, Dorothy, were long time members. For many people who did not attend their church, Carson was the quiet gentleman who sat with the headphones on at the sidelines of one of our concerts for many years, recording our musical efforts for posterity.

School’s out for local college choirs and the choral season begins its final flourish today, in just four or five hours. For fifteen days there will be Copland, Fauré, Gershwin, Mendelssohn, Puccini, and Thompson in the Between Two College area sung by choir, chorale and opera chorus (and also some Tallis a bit farther out).

Today offers the evil Scarpia joining in Puccini’s Te Deum chorus at 2 p.m. in Pomona, in the first of four performances of Tosca by the Repertory Opera Company; then at 3 p.m., there is Robert Frost, Thompson, Copland and Gershwin in ‘America Sings,’ with the combined Claremont Chorale and Chorale Bel Canto, in Claremont. Tomorrow (8 June) the Mountainside Master Chorale is joined by the Cal State LA Chamber Singers in Mendelssohn’s Elijah in Claremont at 3:30 p.m. while the Claremont Chorale and Chorale Bel Canto take ‘America Sings’ to Downey at 4 p.m.

The ROC offers Tosca again Wednesday evening, and then again at 2 p.m. on Saturday, the 14th. The little while later on Saturday, the choir of the La Verne Church of the Brethren brings us the Requiem in D Minor by Gabriel Fauré and music of Vaughn Williams at 7 p.m. in La Verne.

Tosca will return for her final bow in Pomona on the 21st, the last day of the nominal local chorus season, but not quite the last for local choral singers. For that last locally connected choral music (with singers from here) you have to go a bit out of our area to hear Jouyssance sing the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Tallis in West Los Angeles and Pasadena on the 21st and 22nd of this month.

By the time the last notes are sung on the 22nd, ‘Sumer is icumen in’ will have become the truth in our hemisphere, leaving us with choral tidbits and some church choirs until we begin again around Labor Day. You are invited again to send word of summer choral life via the comments section or another way, so that it can be shared.

Today’s links belong to the Hillard Ensemble and Fats Waller and friends as they sing about the time of year in music some six or seven centuries apart.

Sumer is Icumen in – The Hilliard Ensemble
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMCA9nYnLWo

By the silvery moon – Fats Waller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT2lQPp-5S4

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.

In more places than are to be found here, choirs and congregations will sing of eternity this week, following rituals formed over a hundred generations. This is the point of the perennial cycle where we hear ‘Hallelujah! Forever and ever!’ We sing of forever, though even this time is a time for hellos and good byes, for beginnings and endings, while we keep singing on.

On Palm Sunday, I had the rare opportunity (for me) to hear another church choir, singing music by Dubois. Their young baritone soloist sang music I heard my father sing years before the young man was born. Three weeks after Easter, that same church choir will be joined by area singers in celebrating the life of their long time bass soloist, a man who sang in and served and led local choirs for many years. Three weeks before last Sunday, another choir was in concert while, some miles away, a boy was born to a member of their chorale. That is another eternal cycle, saying hello, good bye, hello again, all while we continue to sing.

Among the many services with choir not found below are a number of churches who had their choirs singing last December from 15 December through Christmas. If you are looking for a particular kind of service or church not listed, your might find clues to what you seek in the December posts.

Two links today, with one of music you could hear done in Upland in the next four days, and the other (both, really) in honor of our old friend, Don.

The Heavens are Telling – Haydn

How Lovely Are Thy Dwellings Fair – Brahms

17April – Thursday
7:00 p.m., Chino United Methodist Church, Communion and Tenebrae services, How Beautiful, Paris/Courtney, Chino
7:00 p.m., Claremont Presbyterian Church, service with choir, Claremont
7:00 p.m., St. Ambrose Episcopal Church, service with choir. Claremont
7:00 p.m., St. Anthony’s Parish, mass with choir, Upland
7:00 p.m., St. John’s Episcopal Church, service with choir, La Verne
7:00 p.m., St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Bilingual Mass with Filipino Choir, Upland
7:00 p.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, service with choir, Upland
7:00 p.m., United Methodist Church of Cucamonga, part of Song of the Shadows, Martin, Rancho Cucamonga
7:30 p.m., Claremont United Methodist Church, music by G. Lynn, Claremont
7:30 p.m., Pilgrim Congregational Church, service with choir, Pomona

18 April – Friday
3:00 p.m., St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Bilingual Liturgy with Choir, Upland
7:00 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, service with choir, Upland
7:00 p.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, portions of the Faure’ Requiem, Claremont
7:00 p.m., Ontario First United Methodist Church, Chancel Choir, Ontario
7:00 p.m., San Dimas United Methodist Church, choir cantata, San Dimas
7:00 p.m., St. Ambrose Episcopal Church, Tenebrae service with choir and flute, Claremont
7:00 p.m., St. Anthony’s Parish, mass with choir, Upland
7:00 p.m., St. John’s Episcopal Church, Good Friday Ecumenical Service, La Verne
7:00 p.m. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, “Good Litany” service with choir, Upland
7:00 p.m., United Methodist Church of Cucamonga, part of Song of the Shadows, Martin, Rancho Cucamonga
7:00 p.m., Upland Brethren in Christ, Tenabrae service, music by Bastian, Red/Courtney, Luboff & Stone/Braselton, Upland
7:30 p.m., Trinity United Methodist Church Vietnamese congregation, service with choir, Pomona
8:00 p.m., Pomona College Choir, University of Redlands Chapel Singers, Pomona College Orchestra, Theo Lebow, Tenor, Berlioz Grande Messe des morts, Claremont

19 April, Saturday
7:00 p.m., San Dimas United Methodist Church, choir cantata, San Dimas
7:00 p.m., St. Denis Catholic Community, Easter Vigil with choir, Diamond Bar
7:00 p.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Great Vigil service with choir, Upland
7:30 p.m., Claremont United Methodist Church, Vigil with choir, Claremont
7:30 p.m., St. Ambrose Episcopal Church, Vigil with choir and trumpet, Claremont
8:00 p.m., St. Anthony’s Parish, Vigil with choir, Upland
8:00 p.m., St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Holy Vigil with Tongan Choir, Upland

20 April – Sunday
8:00 a.m., St. Anthony’s Parish, Schola at mass, Upland
8:00 a.m., St. John’s Episcopal Church, service with choir, La Verne
8:00 a.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Eucharist with choir, Upland
8:45 a.m., Upland Brethren in Christ, service with choir, strings, brass, woodwinds; The Heavens Are Telling, Haydn, and music by Stone/Cates, Upland
9:00 a.m., Claremont United Methodist Church, music by C.M. Hobbs, Claremont
9:00 a.m., First Church of the Nazarene Choir and instrumental ensemble, The Rose of Calvary, by Martin, Ontario
9:00 a.m., United Methodist Church of Cucamonga, service with choir, Rancho Cucamonga
9:00 a.m., St. Denis Catholic Community, mass with choir, Diamond Bar
9:00 a.m. St Joseph’s Catholic Church, with choir, Upland
9:15 a.m., St Joseph’s Catholic Church, in Parish Hall, with choir, Upland
9:30 a.m., First United Methodist Church of Upland Cathedral Choir and children’s choirs, Upland
9:30 a.m., St. Anthony’s Parish, mass with children’s choir, Upland
10:00 a.m., Bethel United Church of Christ, Alleluia, Christ in Risen., Althouse, Easter Alleluias, Fettke, Ontario
10:00 a.m. Claremont United Church of Christ, service with choir, Claremont
10:00 a.m., Claremont Presbyterian Church Sanctuary Choir, Claremont
10:00 a.m., First Christian Church, service with choir, Pomona
10:00 a.m., First Presbyterian Church, service with choir, Upland
10:00 a.m., Northminster Presbyterian Church, service with choir, Diamond Bar
10:00 a.m., Pilgrim Congregational Church, service with choir, Pomona
10:00 a.m., St. Ambrose Episcopal Church, service with choir and brass, Claremont
10:00 a.m., St. John’s Episcopal Church, Service with choir, incense, La Verne
10:00 a.m., St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Eucharist with choir, Upland
10:30 a.m., Chino United Methodist Church, service with choir, Chino
10:30 a.m., Ontario First United Methodist Church, Chancel Choir & Handbell Choir, Ontario
10:30 a.m., St. Denis Catholic Community, mass with choir, Diamond Bar
10:30 a.m., San Dimas United Methodist Church, service with choir, San Dimas
10:30 a.m., Trinity United Methodist Church Vietnamese congregation, service with choir, Pomona
10:45 a.m., Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, service with choir, Claremont
11:00 a.m., Claremont United Methodist Church, music by C.M. Hobbs, Claremont
11:00 a.m., First Church of the Nazarene Choir and instrumental ensemble, The Rose of Calvary , by Martin, Ontario
11:00 a.m., St Joseph’s Catholic Church, with choir, Upland
11:15 a.m., St. Anthony’s Parish, mass with youth choir, Upland
11:15 a.m., St Joseph’s Catholic Church, in Parish Hall with choir, Upland
1:00 p.m., St Joseph’s Catholic Church, Spanish service with choir, Upland
3:00 p.m. Pomona College Choir, University of Redlands Chapel Singers, Pomona College Orchestra, Theo Lebow, Tenor, Berlioz Grande Messe des morts, Claremont

27 April – Sunday
3:00 p.m., Claremont Concert Choir, Claremont Chamber Choir, includes music of Brahms, Barber, Finzi, Poulenc, Lauridsen, Claremont