The Bellevue Chamber Chorus and the Northwest Chamber Chorus will present Herbert Howells’s Requiem in a program of tribute and remembrance, and other great double-choir works by Schumann and Rutter. 

The choruses also will perform separately with songs by Barber, Brahms, Gorecki, Tchaikovsky, and traditional spirituals.

These are the first co-produced/performed concerts in the Seattle region by the two chamber choruses.

Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 12 at the Theatre at Meydenbauer, 11100 NE Sixth St., Bellevue and at 3 p.m. Sunday, June 13 at Plymouth Congregational Church, 1217 6th Ave, Seattle.

Double chorus works included in the program are An Die Sterne and Talismane by Robert Schumann, in honor of his 200th anniversary year; John Rutter’s Hymn to the Creator of Light, written as a tribute to composer Herbert Howells; and Howells’ deeply personal Requiem, composed in 1936 as he grieved the loss of his young son. 

Tickets are $20 General Admission, $16 Senior/Student

To order tickets or for more information, visit www.BellevueChamberChorus.net or www.northwestchamberchorus.org. Tickets also available at www.brownpapertickets.com.

Bellevue Chamber Chorus repertoire:

Calm was the Air by Richard Carlton (from The Triumphs of Oriana – 1601 and written in honor of Queen Elizabeth I)

Blazheni, yazhe izbral by Peter Tchaikovsky (from the Communion Liturgy for the Departed)

I’ve Been in the Storm so Long – traditional spiritual, arr. Jeffrey Ames (written in honor of the victims of Hurricane Katrina, and performed in additional tribute to the victims of the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile)

To the Mothers in Brazil: Salve Regina, arr. Gunnar Erickson (honoring the mercy, love, and suffering of mothers around the world via the traditional prayer to the mother of Christ.)

The Coolin’ (from Reincarnations) by Samuel Barber (in honor of the composer’s centennial anniversary year)

Northwest Chamber Chorus repertoire:

O Heiland, reiss die Himmel auf, Op. 74 No. 2 by Johannes Brahms (written as tribute to Baroque compositional style of Bach)

Totus Tuus by Henryk Górecki (Written by Polish composer in honor of Pope John Paul II’s first papal visit to Warsaw)

Soon Ah Will be Done Wi’ de Troubles of Dis Worl’, African American Spiritual arr. by Diane Loomer (in honor of Loomer’s father).

Bellevue Chamber Chorus is directed by Fredrick Lokken. Northwest Chamber Chorus is directed by Mark Kloepper.