Glacier Chorale to perform 'A Heritage of Song' this weekend

The Glacier Symphony Chorale will offer selections from the great history of American choral music at its fall concerts held Nov. 7 and 8, in Whitefish and Kalispell. Titled “A Heritage of Song,” the concerts will offer a sampling of some of our country’s great traditional music. The 70-voice chorale will be under the direction of conductor Micah Hunter. It is the second concert in the Glacier Symphony and Chorale’s “American Mix” Masterworks series and traces the process of America ‘finding it’s voice’ through choral music. 

“We will share a broad swath of the choral music of America with selections ranging from the earliest collections of hymns that arrived on these shores with the Pilgrims to the brash, direct style of America’s earliest homegrown composers  like William Billings and Oliver Holden,” explains Hunter. Included too will be the music of two composers whose names are almost synonymous with American music of the twentieth century: Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland.

Hunter says the program has been very challenging to put together, but quotes Barry Green from his book, The Mastery of Music, “Great music always feeds back more than it takes.”  He adds that this program has taken a lot. “But it has given us much more.  We hope to be able to share it with as many people as possible!”

Concerts will be held on Nov. 7, 7:30 pm at Whitefish Performing Arts Center and on Nov. 8 at 3 p.m. at Glacier High School Performance Hall in Kalispell. 

All youth through grade 12 are admitted to this Masterworks concert free of charge. Tickets can be purchased at gscmusic.org or at the GSC  box office in Kalispell.