Before the Storm

Chorus pro Musica celebrates Austrian composer Anton Bruckner’s 200th birthday with a performance of his magnificent Mass in E minor for chorus and fifteen winds, originally composed for an outdoor performance on the cathedral square in Linz.

Leonard Bernstein’s brilliant Candide (based on Voltaire’s 1759 satirical novella) premiered right here in Boston on October 29, 1956, and on Broadway later that year. Although not an immediate hit, it is now Bernstein’s best-known show after West Side Story. In fact many of Candide’s songs were originally written for West Side Story, and vice versa. We are delighted to perform legendary conductor Robert Page’s splendid arrangements of “The Best of All Possible Worlds” and “Make Our Garden Grow”.

Japanese-American composer and singer Riley Ferretti’s eight-part a cappella setting of Sara Teasdale’s poem “A Prayer” celebrates the power of living a life for love.