Our 86th Season 2021 - 2022

North Shore Choral Society was delighted to return to a full season of in-person concerts. We opened the season with "Free at Last," a profound and inspiring tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., by living Chicago composer Lena McLin, one of the composers and works we had studied during our "virtual" rehearsals the previous year. This concert also featured a musical setting of "The Gettysburg Address," a world premiere by David Burger, ​commissioned for Julia Davids and the North Shore Choral Society. Our special guest, Dr. Thomas W. Jefferson, pianist and composer, performed his new arrangements of three familiar spirituals.

The return to live concerts could not have been more joyfully expressed than in our April 2022 concert with the Evanston Symphony Orchestra, when we performed Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, a choral and orchestral favorite with its iconic hymn to universal fellowship.

Our final concert of the season, titled "Lux," presented the music of John Rutter, including a new composition, "Ukrainian Prayer," a response to the tragedy unfolding in that country, and closing with Rutter's Requiem, a statement of our collective grief in the face of war and pandemic, and yet conveying a message of hope and comfort. 
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