Aspects of life's journey, from youth and love, to faith, death and transformation, are explored in beautiful music for chorus. This concert will feature selections from the Howells Requiem as well as music by Eric Whitacre, Johannes Brahms, Samuel Barber and Gwyneth Walker.

Consort Columbia's acclaimed and highly popular holiday program returns for a third year. This heart-warming celebration of the season is eclectic in style and is guaranteed to offer an oasis of calm and beauty amid the hustle and bustle of the holidays. Soprano Diane Gray-Chamberlain joins us again as our featured soloist.

Consort Columbia is pleased to have been bringing excellent choral music performances to eastern Washington and Oregon for twenty years. From its inception in 1986, the group has sought to present choral music experiences that are exciting, challenging and meaningful for our audiences.

This season we will present four concerts of great beauty and variety. Each piece on this year's program line-up has a unique story to tell and I don't want you to miss a single moment.

I would especially like to encourage you to mark your calendars to attend the first annual "Tri-Cities May Festival" from May 9-13, 2008. This festival will celebrate the glories of vocal and choral music and will feature the wonderful Three Rivers Children's Chorus and terrific vocal soloists, in addition to Consort Columbia and orchestra. I truly hope you will be able to carve out time to attend all three of the special concerts we have planned for this exciting festival.

I want to thank you for your past support of Consort Columbia. This singing endeavor would have no meaning if you did not share it with us. I look forward to seeing you at the concerts!

- Robert Bode

The Washington State Arts Commission has provided support for our programs.

This concert presents songs of faith, joy and praise, beginning with music of the first colonists and including poignant and powerful settings of African American slave music by Moses Hogan, Alice Parker and H.T. Burleigh.

Join us for an evening of food & fun! Solos, trios, and small ensembles will perform music of Gilbert & Sullivan. Silent auction !

Some Enchanted Evening

Soprano Karen Zizzi and tenor Brad Howard, soloists for the Mozart Requiem, perform a program of operatic songs sure to delight and inspire.

Spring Celebration

Three Rivers Children's Chorus and Consort Columbia present an afternoon of choral music dedicated to the joys of spring.

Mozart Requiem

Mozart's beloved Requiem for chorus, soloists and orchestra caps the first annual "Tri-Cities May Festival," sponsored by Consort Columbia.

The Tri-Cities May Festival is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.