Through love to light! Oh, wonderful the way

That leads from darkness to the perfect day!

–            Richard Watson Gilder

Join Delaware Choral Arts at Grace UMC in Wilmington DE on November 22, 2025 at 4pm as we present our Fall concert “Through Love to Light- On Wings of Song.”

Elaine Hagenberg’s buoyant setting of  Through Love to Light provides the thematic anchor for this concert that explores love’s many faces – from unrequited to unbounded joy – across centuries of musical styles.

Liebeslieder Waltzes is Johannes Brahms’ Romantic collection of folk songs for four (!) hands on piano. Sometimes playful, sometimes serious, but always moving forward in  the Ländler style. The concert also features Eric Whitacre’s Five Hebrew Love Songs. These delicate postcards are made even more touching with the addition of Delaware’s own Lisa Vaupel on solo violin.

We sing of passionate love with Gwyneth Walker’s I Will Be Earth and Rosephanye Powell’s interpretation of the Song of Solomon, Arise, Beloved.

And finally, Gwyneth Walker’s On Wings of Song and Kim Andre Arensen’s Flight Song embody Delaware Choral Arts’ best wishes for our audience and colleagues: finding joy, love and peace in a community of friends and in the songs themselves.

Grace UMC is at 900 Washington St,  Wilmington, Delaware and is an accessible venue.  There is ample free parking in the parking lots adjacent to the church and across Washington St.

Live-stream ticket may still be purchased.  You need only purchase one live-stream ticket per household and the live-stream link will be active for at least a month so you may watch (and rewatch!) at your leisure.

Join Delaware Choral Arts in Wilmington DE on April 26, 2026 for American Voices: Songs of Freedom and Democracy. DCA celebrates our nation’s 250^th anniversary with musical selections drawn from the across the American experience. The great American poets Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes’ voices weave through Kyle Pederson’s suite “A Vision Unfolding” as reminders of our aspirational selves. David Chase and grammy-nominated Judith Clurman’s “Washington Women” is a compelling collection of songs whose texts spring from the words sixteen incredible women in our history- First Ladies, Senators, Representatives, Supreme Court Justices, Secretaries of State and Vice President. Other selections include Kevin Memly’s setting of the great American folk song “Shenandoah” and Mark Miller’s anthem “Roll Down Justice.”