Cleveland Chamber Choir: March Choral Madness

Come hear the stunning voices of the Cleveland Chamber Choir in their performances of March Choral Madness, a program combining music of Johannes Brahms, Benjamin Britten, and Cleveland composer Andrew Rindfleisch. In addition to several part songs of outlandish beauty by Brahms, the Choir will present Britten’s rarely heard A.M.D.G. (Ad majorem Dei gloriam—To the Greater Glory of God), a cycle of seven poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins. These insanely virtuosic pieces, penned when Britten was only twenty-six years old, contain the broad spectrum from frenzied passion to absolute calm. Rindfleisch’s five pieces likewise cover a vast range of emotion from enraged raving to rhythmically charged playfulness to sublime repose and magnificent beauty. Whether you call it raving, insane, outlandish, or passionate, March Choral Madness is more than music or poetry … through the intensity of their singing, the Cleveland Chamber Choir offers a depth of emotion and feeling that neither poetry or music can deliver alone!

March 10th at 3 p.m. at First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland — 3630 Fairmount Blvd., Cleveland, OH 44118