SLO Master Chorale’s Holiday Festival

Join with San Luis Obispo Master Chorale to perform the great choruses from Handel’s ever-popular masterpiece, Messiah. Experience the magic of the Forbes Pipe Organ, played by Cal Poly University Organist, Paul Woodring.

Thomas Davies conducts traditional carols and arrangements for chorus, organ, and orchestra with a guest appearance from Los Angeles’s Westwood Brass. It’s a family tradition!

Sergei Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil (Vespers), Opus 37

The season’s final concert on April 21, 2024, features an a cappella performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil (Vespers). His signature choral work, this piece has become a fixture in choral repertoire, standing as the crowning achievement of the “Golden Age” of Russian Orthodox sacred choral music. Much of the melodic material was drawn from ancient unison chants surrounded by the addition of three to ten vocal lines. 

The music is for chorus a cappella, the traditional vocal complement in the Russian Orthodox Church. The SLO Master Chorale will perform the All-Night Vigil in a rare concert given without the Master Chorale Orchestra. A dynamically diverse work, members of the San Luis Obispo Master Chorale will be spread out all over the Performing Arts Center stage.

All-Night Vigil (Vespers) is sponsored by Joan Gellert-Sargen. 

The concert will be held in Harold Miossi Hall at the Performing Arts Center San Luis Obispo on the Cal Poly campus.

Tickets are available by clicking the link below or by calling the PAC box office at 805-756-4849.