Our 90th Season: "Endless Song"

Please join us in celebrating our 90th season! This year, we invite friends old and new to reunite with us throughout the season, beginning with a homecoming concert where we welcome alumni to sing with us in "Endless Song".

Saturday, Nov. 1st at 7 pm
NSCS Homecoming
​Julia Davids, Music Director
Tierra Whetstone, Assistant Conductor
Sharon Rich Peterson, Accompanist
​First Presbyterian Church of Evanston

Our opening concert showcased choral favorites from NSCS performances over the years, including works by H. H. Parry, Florence Price, Johannes Brahms, Randall Thompson, and more! We were also delighted to feature some of our favorite past collaborators including Thomas W. Jefferson, Felicia Patton, Terrance Smith, and Andrea Handley. NSCS also welcomed “home” several former members in a 90th anniversary Homecoming musical celebration! For our encore, we performed a "Sgt. Pepper" parody about NSCS, written by our very own Dirk Walvoord! 

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Saturday, Feb. 21 and Sunday, Feb. 22nd
"Endless Song" Community Celebration
Free Community Workshop on Saturday Feb 21st at 9:30 am
​"In Endless Song" Concert on Sunday, Feb. 22nd at 4 pm
with acclaimed composer and conductor, Rollo Dilworth

This weekend was a celebration of Community, Diversity, and Unity! NSCS hosted a standing-room-only workshop on February 21 with friends, neighbors, and three choirs - people of all ages and stages of musical experience - to celebrate the joy of singing, of learning new music together, and preparing for our February concert. Our workshop leaders were Julia Davids and Tierra Whetstone of NSCS, our guest Dr. Rollo Dilworth, and Kaitlin Foley of the Evanston Folk Choir.  NSCS's "In Endless Song" concert on February 22 presented a wide-ranging repertoire with the common denominator of lifting up the joy and power that singing brings to our lives. We were joined by the Evanston Folk Choir, the Youth Chorus of the North Shore (celebrating their 10th season!), and participants from the Saturday workshop. For the finale, the combined choirs premiered a newly-commissioned piece by Dr. Dilworth, "In Endless Song," with the text created by the singers in NSCS. 
Download our concert poster here.

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Sunday, June 14th at 3 pm 
Joseph Haydn's The Creation
Rosalind Lee - Soprano
Alec David Fore - Tenor
David Govertsen - Bass
with full orchestra
Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation, Evanston 

NSCS closes our 90th season with Haydn’s masterwork depicting the creation of the world. Filled with delightful arias, descriptive orchestral coloration, and grand choruses, this work will showcase the power of community singers coming together in “endless song” for 90 years! 

 Purchase tickets for "The Creation" here.