Announcing our 48th Season!

 

Image Credit: Kevork Mourad

The Passing of the Year
October 11 & 12, 2025 

The opening concert of the 48th season celebrates nature and the changing seasons with music by Jonathan Dove, Aaron Copland, Z. Randall Stroope, Craig Hella Johnson, and more. English composer Jonathan Dove’s The Passing of the Year is the centerpiece of the concert and weaves poetry by Blake, Dickinson, Tennyson, and others into a dramatic telling of the joyful and poignant passing of a year.

 

Image Credit: Kevork Mourad

The Light of Hope Returning
December 6 & 7, 2025

American composer Shawn Kirchner’s The Light of Hope Returning is a ceremony of folk carols featuring traditional familiar carols and newly written carols with added text by award-winning author Susan Cooper and others. Featuring an eclectic sextet of instrumentalists, The Light of Hope Returning takes listeners on a journey from distant hope through darkness into the rebirth of light and true hope for the future.

 

Image Credit:  Wako Megumi

Petition
March 14 & 15, 2026

German composer Felix Mendelssohn’s Hear My Prayer for choir and organ is the centerpiece of this concert of sacred music. The concert includes other works from the 19th century by Mendelssohn, Robert Lucas Pearsall, and Anton Bruckner, as well as Henry Purcell and Maurice Duruflé.

 

Image Credit: "Walt Whitman by Napoleon Sarony, July 1878." The Walt Whitman Archive.

America’s Bard
May 23 & 24, 2026

American poet Walt Whitman’s works have long inspired composers wishing to capture the essence of his writings. The centerpiece of this concert is Jeffrey Van’s haunting A Procession Winding Around Me for guitar and chorus. Whitman texts will be featured in music by other 20th century American composers, including Rene Clausen, Norman Dello Joio, and William Schuman.

 

School Choral Teacher Workshops

As part of our commitment to support young choral students and teachers in northern New Mexico, the Chorale holds conducting workshops for school choral teachers.  The workshop shown in the photos above was held in June 2024, and another was held in May 2025. Local music teachers/conductors have the opportunity to study and conduct the Chorale under the instruction of Music Director George Case. Not only do the teachers benefit from their conducting workshop experience, their many students will benefit, too. The Chorale also benefits from the experience of having to pay close attention to different directors and their different styles, as well as learning from George’s engagement with them.

The Chorale is grateful for your continued generous support. Ticket sales cover less than one-third of our costs and your support is essential in bringing great singing to you and for the outreach programs in our schools and community.

Singer Sidebars, Virtual Concerts, and Musical Works in Progress enabled us to stay in touch with our audiences while we could not perform in person. The entire archive is available here.

 
 
 

Watch https://www.facebook.com/sdcchorale/ for periodic links and pointers to music and music stories that have moved us during challenging times. Be safe and listen to good music!

 

The mission of the Sangre de Cristo Chorale is to entertain, educate, unite, and inspire singers and audiences by performing quality choral music.