Connecticut's premier professional choir, delighting audiences since 1974. Connecticut Choral Artists - CONCORA presents choral music at the highest level, from the Baroque to the present day. CONCORA programs challenge, excite, educate, and inspire audiences across New England. Under the direction of Chris Shepard, Artistic Director, the ensemble’s versatility is displayed in its wide range of repertoire and in the crafting of ensembles from among the choir’s roster of singers.
CONCORA has been praised as “one of the premier musical forces in the state,” “one of our region’s priceless musical assets,” and “a model of choral artistry.” Choral music has the power to cross cultural boundaries and to move hearts; CONCORA’s mission to reach a broad and diverse audience extends not only to the choral aficionado, but also to those who may be touched by the beauty of the choral art for the first time.
Description
Words & Music: A Choral Collaboration with Novelist Geraldine Brooks is a multimedia performance featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning author Geraldine Brooks. Brooks will travel to the Greater Hartford and Shoreline regions with CONCORA to read excepts from her novels, in each case followed by choral pieces that reflect the theme of the reading performed by CONCORA under the leadership of Artistic Director Chris Shepard. Brooks’s novels span a wide range of eras and themes such as colonial-era Native Americans (Caleb’s Crossing), the persecution of the Jewish people throughout the centuries (People of the Book), enslaved Black people in the Civil War era (March and Horse), and the marginalization and vilification of women in the Middle Ages (A Year of Wonders).
Repertoire for this program includes:
- Remember not, Lord, our Offenses & Hear My Prayer, O Lord - Henry Purcell
- Psalms 8 & 100 - Salamone Rossi
- When David Heard - Norman Dinnerstein
- Past Life Melodies - Sarah Hopkins
- Hush on the Death of a Bush Church - Iain Grandage
- Five Hebrew Love Songs - Eric Whitacre
- Excerpts from Songs of Love and War - Paul Moravec
- Hear My Prayer - Moses Hogan
- Hold On! - Arranged by Eugene Thamon Simpson
Date & Time
Sun, May 3, 2026 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Venue Details
Clinton Town Hall
54 East Main StreetClinton, Connecticut 06413
