Wicker Park Choral Singers presents Angels and Demons

Explore the contrast between good and evil as depicted in choral music by attending Angels and Demons, Wicker Park Choral Singers’ third and final program of the 2009-2010 season. Angels and Demons is free and open to the public.

Angels and Demons brings together diverse choral selections that span sentiments, continents, languages and composition styles. “The image we all have of the angelic choir singing through the clouds is beautiful, but it’s just one end of the spectrum that choral music explores,” said Mark Tomasino, WPCS President and Artistic Director. “On the other side, there’s a wealth of literature that’s actually quite treacherous.”

Among those treacherous selections are György Orbán’s "Daemon Irrepit Callidus" and Jaako Mäntyjärvi’s "Double, Double Toil and Trouble," a setting of the witches’ incantation from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Angelic influences come from composers as varied as Rachmaninoff and Billy Joel, and include the world premiere of "Angelus," the choir’s first commissioned piece by Chicago composer Eric Malmquist.


If you can't make this performance, you can see us at one of our other two performances:

Saturday, July 10 at 2:00 p.m. at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 1145 N. 5th Avenue, St. Charles, IL

AND

Monday, July 12 at 12:15 p.m. at the Chicago Cultural Center in Preston Bradley Hall, 78 East Washington, downtown Chicago (Encore performance – program will differ slightly due to time constraints)