Caritas Chamber Chorale will present a series of concerts this October for the benefit of Adorno Fathers’ African Mission. Entitled “Peace and All Good,” the program focuses on peace and the good in all.
Each a cappella selection reflects on the theme that offers a new entryway into hope, healing and peace. Featured will be a set of early American shape-note songs, some in original form and some in popular arrangements. Motets by Palestrina and Duruflé will be presented, as well as pieces written in the last few years by prominent living choral composers, including Philip Stopford, Michael John Trotta, Frank Tichelli and others. The program will also include Spirituals and the motet “Adoramus Te” by Caritas’ composer in residence, Wayne Dietterick. While we let the music lead us to see the good, we sing so that the African Mission may share in it as well.
The concert will be presented Oct. 20 at 7:30 p.m. in Our Lady of Mount Virgin Church, 600 Harris Ave., Middlesex with a reception following and Oct. 21 at 2:30 p.m. in St. Paul Church, 216 Nassau St., Princeton. A freewill offering will benefit the Gianni Diurni Primary School, run by the Adorno Fathers’ St. Francis Caracciolo Mission in Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, Africa.
Caritas Chamber Chorale is dedicated to serving the poorest of the poor through the art of sacred music. Since its founding in 2005, Caritas Chamber Chorale has sung for the Adorno Fathers’ St. Francis Caracciolo Mission in DRC, Africa, and to date has raised more than $120,000. The African Mission’s Gianni Diurni School educates children 3 to 11, who might otherwise not have access to education, and also provides the students one meal per day.
Caritas Chamber Chorale, directed by Barbara Sanderman, is composed of talented volunteer singers from all walks of life from throughout central New Jersey.
For more information, visit www.caritaschamberchorale.org or call 732.718.0775.