Bradley Chorale to Tour in Southern California

02/05/2018 11:30 AM

The Bradley University Chorale will tour in Southern California March 9-13 during Bradley’s spring break. The tour is hosted by Bradley alumna and former Chorale member Devorah Marcus, Senior Rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in San Diego.

The 40-member choir from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, will present Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms; Where Dreams Fly, a series of musical settings by composer William Averitt of poems inspired by paintings of Marc Chagall; and music by Johann Schein, György Orbàn, Colin Britt, Abraham Kaplan, and others.

The Chorale’s performance schedule includes:

Friday, March 9. 6:00 pm: Shabbat Service and Concert

Temple Emanu-El, 6299 Capri Drive, San Diego, 92120 – (619) 286-2566

Saturday, March 10, 6:00 pm: Service and Concert

Congregation B’nai Tzedek (where David Young, also a Bradley graduate, serves as Rabbi), 9669 Talbert Ave., Fountain Valley 92708 – (714) 963-4611

Sunday, March 11, 2:00 pm: Concert

Temple Beth El, 1435 W. Seventh St, San Pedro 90732 – (310) 833-2467

All concerts and service/concerts are open to the public without charge. The Chorale will also perform in several area schools.

On Sunday, March 25, at 3:00 pm, the Chorale will present this concert at Dingeldine Music Center, 1417 W. Barker, in Peoria – $5 admission for adults, students free 

The Bradley Chorale has performed across the United States and Europe, winning national and international recognition. The ensemble has performed often for state and regional music educator conventions. Recent Chorale tours have taken the ensemble to southern Spain and Denmark.

Dr. John Jost, director of the Bradley Chorale and professor of music at Bradley, earned his undergraduate and advanced degrees at Stanford University and taught in California, New York, and Haiti before arriving at Bradley in 1989. He has served as principal violist of the Peoria Symphony and for 40 years directed a summer music camp in Haiti. He is also co-founder and artistic director of the Peoria Bach Festival. He has won awards for teaching, achievement, and service from Bradley, the American Choral Directors Association, and the Haitian Ministry of Culture.

For more information, contact Dr. John Jost at [email protected] or at (309)-677-2600.