Chor Anno sang two concerts in September, 2022.
The first was in Lagerquist Hall on the campus of Pacific Lutheran University at 7:00 p.m., Saturday, September 17th. It was open to the public. Admission, as usual, was free with the hope that adults would be willing to donate $20 if so inclined. The concert in Lagerquist Hall is available on Youtube and can be found at: Chor Anno - YouTube
If necessary, grab the little red dot at the bottom of the video and drag it to the left to go to about the nine-minute mark and you'll find the opening piece of the concert. This is a marvelous hall with great acoustics for choral work as well as a very well-done video of the entire concert. We urge you to take a look.
Our second concert was Sunday, September 18th, in the Wollenberg Auditorium at Lower Columbia College, Longview. That concert was at 3:00 p.m. and was sponsored by the Kelso/Longview Community Concert Association. While the concert was not recorded, we heard wonderful words of encouragement and "thank yous" from people who attended. Our thanks to Susie Kirkpatrick, who heads the Association, for her invitation to sing for this event.
Music from our 2021 concerts
The following information tells of our 2021 concerts...now past history. You may still hear all the music as performed in Moreland Presbyterian, Portland, Oregon. Click HERE to be taken to the page with audio recordings of all pieces performed in that concert...in concert order. You may see and hear video of a portion of the concert, HERE. The videos include: Deep Peace (Elaine Hagenberg), A Little Song of Life (Reg Unterseher), Abide (Dan Forrest), Like a River (Arr. Tim Osiek), All God's Critters Got a Place in the Choir (Bill Staines, Arr. Erica Phare-Bergh), How Can I Keep From Singing (Paul Aitken), A Silence Haunts Me (Jake Runestad), and I Am Glad (Dan Schreiner).
Our 2021 program: (not in order of performance)
Resilience - Abbie Bettinis
I Am Glad - Dan Schreiner
A Silence Haunts Me - Jake Runestad
Abide - Dan Forrest'
A Little Song of Life - Reg. Unterseher
How Can I Keep from Singing? - Paul Aitken
Emerald Stream - Seth Houston
Like a River in My Soul - Arr. Tim Osiek
O lux beata Trinitas - Andrej Makor
All God's Critters Got a Place in the Choir - Bill Staines, Arr. Erica Phare-Bergh
Distress - Reg Unterseher
Terre Neuve - Marie Saindon
Deep Peace - Elaine Hagenberg
Chor Anno's 2023 Concerts - HERE for audio only
HERE for Video of the Vancouver concert
Upon opening, move the red "dot" with your mouse to the left to start from beginning of the concert.
Chor Anno's 2023 concerts were held Saturday, September 16 and Sunday, September 17.
The first was in Gloria Dei Lutheran Church in Olympia, WA. Chor Anno presented a slightly abbreviated concert for residents of Vancouver Pointe, a retirement complex, at 10:45 on Sunday, the 17th and then followed that with a full concert at Holy Redeemer Catholic Parish on the east side of Vancouver...a concert held at 3 p.m.
We're happy to say that the concerts were well attended...perhaps the largest audiences we have seen for our concerts since we started in 2009.
See the link under "Our Music" to find audio uploads of the choral works sung in 2023. A video of this performance (shot during the concert at Holy Redeemer Catholic Parish) is now available. Here is the LINK.
Breaking news
Chor Anno's 2025 concerts were held in Vancouver's Holy Redeemer Catholic Church on Saturday evening, 7:00 p.m., September 13. Our second concert was held in University Presbyterian Church, Seattle, WA at 3 p.m., September 14, 2025.
The 2025 program included the following choral works:
Spring of Paradise: Oppenheimer's Gita by Reginald Unterseher
Four rivers flow from the spring of paradise at the roots of the Tree of Life.
Plutonium is the fruit of this tree, and we have eaten of the fruit.
It has cast us out of paradise by poisoning the earth and making it possible
for us to destroy each other. I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.
In All Things Love, Dan Forrest (with string quartet, Matt Mandrones,
Carol Kirkman (V), Karen Greenfelt (S), Stephen Meharg, Rachel Davis (V), Anthony Su (S)
Love, in all things love, as I have loved you, so love.
Now abide, faith, hope, and love, but the greatest of these is love.
Nox (Night), Elaine Hagenberg (with string quartet)
Lord, have mercy, Christ have mercy
Night and darkness and fog, confused world and turmoil,
Dark gloom tears the earth, beats and stabs the sun!
The Last Light - Chara Nova (Violist, Steve Meharg)
The last starlight to appear in the night, above the top of the trees,
Shines to tell me I have made it the long way home.
Sacred Place - Alex Berko
with Matt Mandrones, Violin, Anthony Su, Cello, and Brian Hoskins, Piano
Lyrics for the multi-movement work (based on the Jewish prayer service),
are from poets and environmentalists who speak of their relationship
with the earth. For example, "Amidah" uses words written by John Muir
as he wrote to T. Roosevelt asking that Yosemite become a national park.
The movements:
Opening Prayer (with soloist, Philip Denton)
Amidah
Shema (with soloists Jacqueline Green and Ben Bouton)
Mi Shebeirach (renewal prayer)
Kaddish (Soloists, Ben Bouton, Meg Stohlman, Nelson Green, and Alison Askeland)
Closing Prayer (with soloist, Philip Denton)
Shine Like Stars - Pink Zebra
(Soloist: Rhonda Catchpole)
What are we waiting for? It seems we still want more. No one can take away the dream we
have today. You can go with the flow. There's a light, let it burn inside
you. You can shout, let it out. This is it, let the moment guide you.
I want you to know. Oh, yeah! We shine like stars!
Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell, Arr. Emerson
Soloist: Shannon Anderson
(A great song from the late 60's by Joni Mitchell)
Imaginary Creatures, Andrea Ramsey
Totally fun with lyrics written by 8-10 year-old kids and narration by
our own Conley Bouton, (you won't believe it) age 5 1/2.
North, by Ryan O'Neal, Arr. George Chung
Soloists: Mike Scott and Kimberly Claassen
We will call this place our home, the dirt in which our roots may grow.
...smaller than dust on this map lies the greatest thing we had...
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2024 Program
Our concerts for 2024 were held in Olympia at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, on Saturday, September 14, at 7 p.m. and at Holy Redeemer Catholic Parish in Vancouver, Washington on Sunday, September 15 at 2:00 p.m.. Yes, the same venues used for our concerts in '23. We appreciated the warm reception at both of these churches and we were asked to repeat a Chor Anno program in these sacred spaces. We were delighted to oblige in 2024!
You may hear the entire program FREE by opening "Our Music" in the menu and then clicking on "2024" to find audio of all choral works sung in that concert. A video which was shot during the concert at Holy Redeemer on September 15, can be found HERE.
