We look forward to a lot of annual events each spring, but when it comes to choral celebrations, the Grand Rapids Women’s Chorus always steps up and welcomes the season in song.
Each winter (and more recently in the spring), this local choir made of a diverse group of women invites the community to join them in a celebration of song just as they have for more than 25 year now. And with each program, they present a collection of contemporary or world choral works that keep this program just as fresh as the one before.
For the spring 2012 concert at East Grand Rapids Performance Hall, the choir, under the long time direction of founding Artistic Director Lori Tennenhouse, presents Sweet Mystery a season appropriate collection of songs about the cycles of life.
Our chorus recently returned from the Tapestry International Festival of Choirs where they were one of four choirs on the planet invited to perform at this Vancouver event.
As an added bonus, Tennenhouse said, “We are thrilled to be able to present our newly commissioned piece "Eagle Rounding Out the Morning" by Joan Szymko with text by Native American poet Joy Harjo that we world premiered at this international choral event."
Rounding our the program will be other compositions from Michigan composers like Marjan Helms’ “Salmon Run” and Libby Larsen’s “Book of Spells” with a variety of classical and jazz works all contributing to this ambitious, but celebratory concert.
Grand Rapids is becoming a world player in the arts and it is getting there through our collective contributions of groups like the GRWC who remind us what we have to celebrate and treasure with our patronage.
The entire staff of Rapid Growth congratulates our Grand Rapids Women’s Chorus for their 25 years of excellence in choral performance. We love what we hear and here’s to 25 more years of song.
Admission: $15 in advance / $18 at the door (Students $10)
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