Pacific Chorale’s stellar chamber choir showcases its captivating artistry on “Language of Love,” an intimate program of sublime love songs, on Saturday, February 24, 2024 at 7:30 pm, at CSU Fullerton’s Meng Concert Hall. Artistic Director Robert Istad conducts a selection of treasured Broadway tunes, pop hits, dazzling vocal jazz, inspiring choral music, and cabaret-style solos. An instrumental combo joins the choir.
Among the featured works is a rare complete performance of Morten Lauridsen’s Les Chansons des Roses, his masterful setting of Rilke’s exquisite love poetry hailed as “celestial and spine-tingling” (International Review of Music). UK’s Daily Express decreed, “contemporary choral music doesn’t come any better than this.”
Other highlights include Elton John’s touching Your Song, arranged by Mac Huff; James Taylor’s Something in the Way She Moves; Irving Berlin’s iconic Cheek to Cheek, arranged by Bill Cunliffe; Edith Piaf’s instantly recognizable La Vie En Rose; and Eric Whitacre’s poignant With a Lily in Your Hand. Istad also conducts Ben Folds’ The Luckiest, arranged by Jim Clemens; Samuel Barber’s The Coolin from Reincarnations; and Come What May from “Moulin Rouge.”
Meng Concert Hall is located at CSU Fullerton, 800 N. State College Drive, Fullerton, 92831. For tickets to “Language of Love” ($25 - $80) and information, visit www.pacificchorale.org or call 714-662-2345.