The Santa Cruz Chorale presents The New Choir in “A Dialogue of Heaven and Earth”

One of the great pleasures for us every year is the March concert. It is so for several reasons: First, we get to hear many different choral groups while selecting the one we invite as our Guest Choir. Second, the music they sing opens up new musical opportunities for us, as we usually perform a […]

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The Santa Cruz Chorale presents The Best of “Christmas with the Chorale”

At this point in the season, we Santa Cruz Chorale singers are now finding ourselves humming the Christmas concert selections over and over, sometimes even in our sleep!  Some of the pieces are the ones we must carefully, painstakingly work on for weeks, before they can be sung to our satisfaction. Others are joyfully easy […]

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Stravinsky and Renaissance Motets June 25, June 26 2016

Hello Friends, By now we hope you have your tickets to this weekend’s concert, which includes Stravinsky’s “Mass” and Renaissance motets for choir and wind instruments. Earlier this week, our Artistic Director, Christian Grube, was interviewed by Scott MacClelland.  Mr. MacClelland interviewed Dr. Grube about his early life, influences, and how he came to be […]

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June 25th and 26th: Santa Cruz Chorale sings Stravinsky and Renaissance Motets

We invite you to join the Santa Cruz Chorale in a summertime musical adventure: Works from the 16th century surround and inform the main work of our next performance, Igor Stravinsky’s Mass for mixed chorus and double wind quintet, composed in 1948. It is one of Stravinsky’s very few compositions that was not commissioned; he […]

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