SUBSCRIPTIONS
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Subscriptions are now available for next season! Be sure to secure your spot for our 2025-2026 70th anniversary concert series.​
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Ever reinventing itself, in a season titled Voices of Change, the ensemble explores six transformations as described in artistic works from six centuries and as many continents. For singing is a universal human expression, and has been used in service to Protest, Justice, and Equality – just three of the program titles within which we present both established pieces and recent compositions. Complementing these are three additional examples of transformations, from science, from religion, and from an imperial power blossoming into a commonwealth of nations.
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See below for concert dates and details. We will hold each presentation on a Sunday from 3 pm to about 4:30 pm. The subscription includes tickets to all six concerts, and saves you $30 over buying tickets separately for each concert. If you prefer to mail in your subscription or donation, please use this form.
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​Seat Cushions
For patrons who would like to pre-order seat cushions and are not already receiving them as a donation benefit, they are available at $20 each as a subscription add-on or you can purchase them separately here. You may purchase them online and pick them up at our first concert at Third Baptist Church on October 5. They will also be available for purchase at the concert.
October 5, 2025
Science / From Leonardo Da Vinci to Albert Einstein​
Third Baptist Church, Grand Center
620 N. Grand Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63103​
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Since Aristotle, music and science have intersected in provocative and illuminating ways: the discovery of new data and the creation of original art are two sides of the same coin. On this program, composers describe revelations and discoveries, from astronomy to optics, from advances in engineering to our theory of matter, as conceived by the ancient Roman poet, Lucretius. A new commission from Francis Pott complements recent works by Dobrinka Tabakova and Melissa Dunphy, and Renaissance songs by Dowland and Weelkes.
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November 16, 2025
Protest / From Martin Luther to Bob Dylan​
Lutheran Church of the Atonement
1285 N. New Florissant Rd., Florissant, MO 63031
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Railing against corruption, injustice and tyranny has long inspired artists to channel their protest through music. Luther’s outrage at religious decadence led to the Protestant Church, whose chorales provided its followers with their rallying cry, while political upheavals prompted fiery choruses from Billings, through Schumann to Shostakovich. Finally, the soundtrack to the Civil Rights’ Movement was written by activists like Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan, whose ballads find fresh audiences through recent arrangements.
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December 21, 2025
Transformation / The Birth of Jesus Christ​
St. Louis Abbey
500 S. Mason Rd., Creve Coeur, MO 63141
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The miracle of Jesus’s birth is best termed a ‘mystery’ – what the spoken word cannot fully describe; thus, it is ideally suited to a musical expression. Victoria’s mass based on his own setting of the motet O Magnum Mysterium is interspersed with diverse arrangements from the Renaissance to the present day, notably by Judith Bingham and a new version by Carter Datz.
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February 15, 2026
Justice / From Abraham Lincoln to MLK​
Salem United Methodist Church
1200 S. Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63131
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The pursuit of justice lies at the heart of any society, and it is often led by visionary figures such as presidents and civil rights’ activists. Through music, composers such as Esenvalds and Ulysses Kay render the demands of such leaders eloquent and even more compelling. Culminating with a new commission from Melissa Dunphy, this program reminds us of how far we have come, and the journey that remains.
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April 19, 2026
Commonwealth / Queen Elizabeth II (born April 21, 1926)​
Christ Church Cathedral, Downtown St. Louis
1210 Locust St., St. Louis, MO 63103
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Elizabeth II was Britain’s longest reigning monarch, and for her accession ten poets and ten composers collaborated on A Garland for the Queen, a song cycle in her honor, As queen, Elizabeth saw the British Empire evolve into a ‘commonwealth’ of nations, which the Nigerian composer Vincent Chinemelu and Vaughan Williams both hailed in secular hymns. Now matching her longevity as queen (seven decades), the Chamber Chorus celebrates its anniversary with a commission from British composer, Sasha Johnson Manning.
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May 31, 2026
Equality / Half the Sky​
The Link Auditorium, Central West End
4504 Westminster Pl., St. Louis, MO 63108
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The advocacy for women artists which we demonstrate in every program reaches its apogee with works by women writers and composers of different cultures and creeds. Extending from Hildegard of Bingen (11th century) to pioneers like Fanny Mendelssohn and Undine Smith Moore, the program culminates with a new Ode from Sophocles’ Antigone by the contemporary Mexican composer, Maria Granillo. The concert is performed appropriately in the former home of the Women’s Club of St. Louis.