Texas Master Chorale to Perform Music of Peace, Love, and Joy in 2023-24
Texas Master Chorale will delight audiences with music of peace, love, and joy throughout their 2023-24 concert season.
The season opens on Saturday, October 21, 2023 with “Peace,” featuring the Requiem by Maurice Duruflé, as well as music by Handel, Gjello, and Davis.
Duruflé completed the Requiem in 1947 and it is his best-known work; a testament of faith, comfort and tranquility unequaled among music composed in the 20th century.
The concert will also include Handel’s “Zadok the Priest,” which was written for the coronation of King George II in 1727 and has been performed at every Royal coronation since; “Jubilate Deo,” a newly written work by Taylor Scott Davis, who has been hailed by the Wall Street Journal for “dreamy vocal lines” that overlap and intensify in a stunning effect; and work by Ola Gjello, a Norwegian composer whose music is evocative and cinematic, with lush harmonies.
“Peace” will take place at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, October 21 at John Wesley Church, 5830 Bermuda Dunes Drive in Houston, 77069. Tickets are $25; students are free with school I.D.
Texas Master Chorale will open their 2023-24 concert season with “Peace,” featuring the Requiem by Maurice Duruflé. Photo by Thomas Nguyen.Other concerts scheduled for Texas Master Chorale in 2023-24 include “Love,” a Christmas concert on December 16 featuring “Glad Tidings,” by Randol Bass; and “Joy,” on April 27, featuring Dan Forrest’s “Jubilate Deo.”
Founded in 1986, Texas Master Chorale is a mixed choral ensemble of 100 auditioned singers who perform a variety of choral masterworks including classical, contemporary, sacred and secular. The chorale is led by Brad Bouley, founder and artistic director. Bouley served as the Director of Choirs for Tomball High School for 20 years and was the Director of Fine Arts for Tomball ISD for 15 years until his retirement. He was one of four people to receive the Texas Choral Excellence Award in 2018, presented by the Texas Choral Directors Association.
Tickets may be purchased online at TexasMasterChorale.org, through the box office at 281-440-4850, or at the door. Concerts are generously sponsored by Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital and Texas Commission on the Arts. To learn more about the Texas Master Chorale, please visit texasmasterchorale.org.
Source: TMC
