The theme for NSCS’ 83rd season was “A Few of Our Favorite Things.” One of our favorite things is singing an oratorio with full orchestra and soloists – as well as teaming up with Music Director Julia Davids’ husband, baroque violinist Martin Davids. On November 18, we performed G. F. Handel’s Judas Maccabaeus at a beautiful and inspiring venue, the Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston. Another of our favorite things is collaborating with Chicago musicians.

For our March concert we joined pianist and composer Thomas W. Jefferson as he shared numerous original works for piano, chorus, and band. We had the opportunity to perform in Evanston and at his home church, the magnificent Basilica of Our Lady of Sorrows. This concert also featured the NSCS favorite, soulful soprano Felicia Patton.

​Finally, we were delighted to join the Evanston Symphony Orchestra in its celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday by singing two of our all-time favorite pieces, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, at Northwestern University’s Pick-Staiger Auditorium.