The Festival Chorus Triple Birthday Celebration Spring Concert!

The Harper College Performing Arts Center Festival Chorus celebrates three wonderful birthdays with this year’s annual Spring Concert for 2026 – Our Country’s 250th, John Rutter’s 80th, and the Festival Chorus’s 60th!  A suite of John Rutter’s beloved pieces will be played, including: “All Things Bright and Beautiful”, “For The Beauty Of The Earth”, “A Gaelic Blessing”, and “Look At The World”. Celebrating the birth of Our Country: “A Tribute To The Armed Services” (arr. by Lloyd Larson), “America The Beautiful”, ( Samuel Ward, arr. by Carmen Dragon) and Irving Berlin’s  “God Bless America” (arr. by Joseph M. Marten).  The audience will delight in the harmonies of 75 choral voices and 32-piece orchestra, filling the acoustically superb PAC concert hall. Gregory Tipps and Sarah Inendino, conductors. For tickets, go to harpercollege.edu/boxoffice or call 847.925.6100. Tickets: general admission $20, seniors /students $15, Children under 12 are free. Location: - Harper College’s Performing Arts Center (PAC), 1200 W. Algonquin Road, Palatine IL 60067.