Delaware Choral Arts – The Area’s Premiere Symphonic Chorus

2024-2025 Season

“We are the music makers!”

Delaware ChoralArts sings music “By Request”

Selections for DCA’s 2024-2025 concert season were selected
from a list of choral selections that were requested
by our audience and singing members.

Event Schedule

Concert

Lux Aeterna

November 16, 2024 — Sat. at 3:00 pm

Grace United Methodist Church
900 N. Washington Street, Wilmington, DE 19801

Repertoire

  • We are the Music Makers – Reginal Wright, Arthur O’Shaughnessy (text)
  • Three French Chansons:
    • Aime-moi bergére – Jacques Lefevre
    • Mon coeur se recommande a vous – Anonymous
    • Il est bel et bon – Pierre Passereau
  • Frostiana – Randall Thompson, Robert Frost (text)
  • Lux Aeterna – Morten Lauridsen
  • We Shall Walk Through the Valley in Peace – Moses Hogan

DCA launched its 40th Anniversary Season with this fall afternoon concert.  The key works for this concert evolved from last season’s “by request” member and audience survey. Randall Thompson’s Frostiana sets poetry of the great Robert Frost to music, and Morten Lauridsen’s lush Lux Aeterna highlights DCA’s richly layered soundscape. Three French chansons and works by Reginal Wright and Moses Hogan rounded out the afternoon’s choral presentation, which was accompanied by Gabriel Benton.

 

Free Concert

Spirituals 2025

SsAM Adult Choir with members of Delaware ChoralArts and WIlmington Children Choir

February 15, 2025 — Sat. at 3:00 pm

Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew
719 N. Shipley Street, Wilmington, DE 19801

Guest Soloists

  • Pat MalcolmSoprano

On Saturday, February 15 at 3:00 p.m., members of DCA and The Wilmington Children’s Chorus joined with the Choir of The Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew in a Spirituals Concert featuring guest soloist Pat Malcolm, Soprano at the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew, 719 N. Shipley Street,  Wilmington, Delaware 19801.

Concert

A Silence Haunts Me

May 17, 2025 — Sat. at 7:00 pm

Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew
719 N. Shipley Street, Wilmington, DE 19801

Join Delaware ChoralArts on Saturday, May 17 at 7 p.m. at The Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew as we close out our 2024-25 “By Request” Season. This concert will feature “A Silence Haunts Me” – Jake Runestad’s dramatic choral expression of Beethoven’s own reflections on legacy and his increasing deafness – and Thomas LaVoy’s “The Dreams That Remain” – a moving setting of three poems by Sarojini Naidu. Two settings of “Veni Sancte Spiritus” (Robles, Lauridsen), a Hebrew love song and works by Reginald Wright and Moses Hogan round out the evening’s presentation on the essence of life, love, and spirituality.