North Shore Choral Society
P.O. Box 103, Evanston, Illinois 60204-0103
NSCS Current Season
The North Shore Choral Society normally sings three concerts each season; one in the Fall (November or December), a second in late winter (February or March), and a third in the Spring (May or June). Our season brochure is published in August.
2011-2012
Our 76th Season 
We have three exciting concerts planned, and several special events. Plus we will participate in the popular An Evanston Symphony Christmas on December 4, 2011.
We hope you will join us this season!
Concert 1
A Holiday
Celebration
Sunday November 20, 2011 at 3 pm
Glenview Community Church
1000 Elm Street, Glenview, IL
Featuring
The Prairie Brass Band
of Arlington Heights,
Dallas Niermeyer, Musical Director
Sharon Rich Peterson, organ and piano
Julia Brueck, organ
Renata Lowe, soprano
and members of The Joyful Ringers handbell choir of Glenview Community Church, Gary Wendt, Director
Join the North Shore Choral Society at the Glenview Community Church for a thrilling performance of holiday music.
The Prairie Brass Band will share some of their competition repertoire, as well as brass arrangements of seasonal music. The Prairie Brass Band will host the ninth annual U.S. Open Brass Band Championships at the Norris Center in St. Charles, Illinois, on November 5, 2011.
Choral music will include multiple settings of the Magnificat (the “Song of Mary”), including a percussive and compelling composition by American composer Mark Gresham. This piece has been newly arranged to highlight organist and NSCS accompanist Sharon Rich Peterson. Robert Shaw's Many Moods of Christmas features an assortment of familiar carols, and the concert includes carols arranged for the Chicago Mastersingers by local musician Paul Langford. The Prairie Brass Band will join the Choral Society in several favorites, both traditional and modern, to round out this brass and choral celebration of the season.
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Concert 2
Carl Orff's
Carmina Burana
Sunday March 4, 2012 at 3 pm
The Unitarian Church of Evanston
1330 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, IL
The North Shore Choral Society presents one of the most popular cantatas of all time, Carl Orff’s thrilling Carmina Burana. In 1936 Orff set twenty-four poems and dramatic texts from the 11th – 13th centuries to some of the most exciting and expressive music for choir, children’s choir, soloists, and in this version – two pianos and percussion.
The NSCS welcomes the Evanston Children’s Choir, directed by Gary Geiger, and an all-Chicago roster of soloists including soprano Rosalind Lee, tenor Peder Reiff, and emerging opera star baritone Hugh Russell. Pianist and NSCS accompanist Sharon Rich Peterson will be joined by Music Institute of Chicago’s Director of Performance Activities Fiona Queen and five percussionists.
Concert 3
G.F. Handel’s
Israel in Egypt
Sunday June 10, 2012 at 3 pm
Temple Beth-El
3610 Dundee Road, Northbrook, IL
This dramatic biblical oratorio tells the story of the plague-ridden persuasion of Pharaoh to allow the enslaved Israelites to leave Egypt. Handel is at his best in this evocative composition of the exodus written for six soloists and double chorus.
The NSCS will be joined again by a full orchestra of the top instrumentalists in Chicago led by Concert Master Martin Davids.
Soprano Máire O’Brien, mezzo soprano Angela Young Smucker , tenor Kurt R. Hansen, bass Ryan O'Mealey, and Donald Chen Young Artist Award winner soprano Alison Wahl will be featured in this concert.
The North Shore Choral Society is supported in part
by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council,
an agency of the State of Illinois.