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Upcoming Season

Join us for our 61st Season
of Singing for Joy

61st Season

A Feast of Psalms

Date: November 8, 2026
Time: 4:00 pm

Trinity Lutheran Church
675 E Algonquin Rd. Des Plaines, IL 60016

NWCS opens our 2026-27 Concert Season with a program that explores texts from the Book of Psalms – timeless, evocative, prayerful poetic writings which have been a beloved source of inspiration for people of all backgrounds and faith traditions for millennia. We’ll hear music created over four centuries ago by composers like William Byrd and Palestrina, alongside music crafted by master composers of our own time like Caroline Shaw and James MacMillan. We’ll hear American composer Charles Ives’s monumental setting of Psalm… Continue reading A Feast of Psalms

A Northwest Christmas

Date: December 20, 2026

St. Raymond de Penafort Church
Lincoln Street and Elmhurst Ave, Mount Prospect, IL 60056

A yearly tradition – join us to celebrate Christmas with Northwest Choral Society! Hear old favorites alongside choral gems of the season, including opportunities to sing your favorite carols along with us – and don’t miss our famous Christmas Bake Sale!

Reincarnations

Date: May 2, 2027
Time: 4:00 pm

TBA

NWCS completes its 2026-27 Concert Season with “Reincarnations”, a program of choral masterworks which explores the ways in which music can seem to defy the passage of time. At the heart of the program is Samuel Barber’s “Reincarnations” – a three-movement work for unaccompanied chorus composed between 1939 and 1940 which sets to music words of the Irish poet Anthony Raftery, who lived about a century prior and was himself said… Continue reading Reincarnations

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