Premium Concert
The Cry: A Requiem for the Lost Child
Saturday, October 21, 2023 at 7:00 PM
First Presbyterian Church, 716 College Avenue, Racine, WI 53403
Pre-Concert Events Included with Admission:
5:45 – 6:30PM Prairie School Art Chair Vicki Schmitz and CAS Associate Conductor Pat Badger will offer a hands-on session – Ukraine Children’s Art: The Art of Possibility In Times of Conflict.
6:00 – 6:30PM Dr. John Brug, Scholar, Editor, Archaeologist, and Pastor, will speak about Compassion for Children; Dr. Brug has spent time in Ukraine.
British Contemporary composer Adrian Snell created The Cry as an act of remembrance for those affected by the loss of life or childhood due to violence. With author Murray Watts, Snell has musically woven the authentic words of children, who have suffered war, conflict, and ethnic cleansing, within the Requiem structure. The Choral Arts Society (CAS) will offer this work in honor of and in solidarity with the civilian victims of the war in Ukraine. The program will be enhanced by the artwork of Ukrainian children impacted by the war who were invited to paint at hospitals, orphanages, and art studios in Lviv by art therapists Nataliia and Yustyna Pavliuk. In January 2023, these works were exhibited at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago. American solo violinist Rebecca Engstrom—a Wisconsin native who collaborated on the composition and the world premiere—will perform with the CAS.
Lessons and Carols
Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 7:00 PM
First Presbyterian Church, 716 College Avenue, Racine, WI 53403
Pre-Concert Event Included with Admission:
5:45 – 6:30 PM Good Works: Building Community Through the Art of Song and Service. What sparked the interest and commitment of Racine Social Service leaders? All concert attendees are welcome to this pre-concert panel discussion.
Celebrate one of the area’s most recognized holiday traditions. For over 30 years, audiences have returned to experience the hope, joy, wonder, love, and peace of the Christmas story. This season’s presentation will feature a program of both English and American songs. Old and new carols, combined with traditional readings, take us from the creation story through the prophecy, birth, Wise Men’s journey, and unfolding mystery of the incarnation. Listen, sing along, and share the holiday experience as we honor this hallowed tradition of music and spoken word.
Premium Concert
Carmina Burana
In collaboration with The Studio of Classical Dance Arts
Saturday, May 18, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Sunday, May 19, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Main Stage Theatre, The Rita at UW-Parkside
900 Wood Road, Kenosha, WI 53144
Experience Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana in an exciting production, staged and choreographed by The Studio of Classical Dance Arts artistic team of Marc Darling and Linda Bennett. The composer intended his setting of medieval poetry to be a feast for the ears and the eyes. The joys and sorrows of youth, love, and fortune will be sumptuously displayed with dance, choreography, and visual design wrapped in some of the most memorable and dramatic music ever written. Student dancers from The Studio of Classical Dance Arts and singers from The Prairie School will join CAS with two pianos and a profusion of percussion creating a boisterous spectacle for the senses.