​2020-2021

We regret to announce that we have had to cancel our OCTOBER and DECEMBER concerts.

BE THINKING AHEAD.  
THE ACS NEEDS YOU WITH US WHEN WE RECONVENE.
​We will need singers, supporters, and audiences.  We need YOU.

THE CREATION
​Franz Joseph Haydn

POSTPONED
Franz Joseph Haydn's epic telling of the Creation story.
While visiting London in the 1790s, Haydn heard two of Handel's oratorios, Messiah and Israel in Egypt.  Inspired and possessing a libretto by Baron van Swieten, based on Milton's Paradise Lost, The Creation (Die Schöpfung) ​ was premiered in Vienna in 1798.  
​The ACS will perform this masterwork in English.

JOY TO THE WORLD

POSTPONED
Technically an Advent cantata, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (BWV 140) is a setting of scripture from Matthew 25:1-13 set by Bach in Leipzig in November 1731.  Also included in the concert are a mini-cantata by Randol Bass, The Feast of Carols; a "Handelian" setting of Joy to the World by John Rutter; an anthem arrangement by Dan Forrest of See, Amid the Winter's Snow; a performance by our special guest artists, the Jessye Norman School Chorus, and much more.

MARCH 20, 2021 IS OUR FIRST
CONCERT DATE OF 2021.

WE'RE HOPING TO SEE YOU THEN.

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