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2024-2025 Season Announcement
THE CREATION BY JOSEPH HAYDN 
Columbia Chorale
With guest conductor R. Paul Crabb of Prometheus
October 26, 2024 | 7:00 p.m. | Launder Auditorium, Columbia College
Learn More About our Guest Artists
Columbia Chorale welcomes back R. Paul Crabb of Prometheus to lead the ensemble in its first concert of the season. Inspired by Handel’s Messiah and Israel in Egypt, Haydn’s The Creation (1798) incorporates texts from the Bible (Genesis and Psalms) and John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost to portray the Biblical narrative of the creation of the universe. Experience comfort and hope as Haydn’s uplifting arias and choruses paint a picture of chaos and darkness transformed into a world of idealized harmony and love.
The Forest is Full of Color 
Columbia Youth Choirs with the CPS 5th Grade Honors Choir
November 17, 2024 | 5:00 p.m.| Windsor Auditorium, Stephens College
The members of Columbia Youth Choirs kick off season 12 in a concert that pays homage to the beauty of Planet Earth and the ways that nature inspires, challenges, and enriches us.
Winter Miracle: A Missouri Christmas with MOSY
Holiday Choraliers
With conductors Jeremy Wagner & Maestro Wilbur Lin
2 p.m. | December 15, 2024 | Missouri Theatre
Members from several of the CAAM’s adult and youth choirs join the Missouri Symphony Orchestra and other guest members to usher in the holiday season during the Symphony’s annual holiday concert. Enjoy seasonal favorites as well as newer works in a concert that puts everyone in the mood for the season.
Illumina: Music of Light
Columbia Chamber Choir [with special guests]
January 18, 2025
Experience inner enlightenment at Illumina, a serene concert of candlelight and music featuring Columbia Chamber Choir and special guests from an area high school. Highlights include Morten Lauridsen’s Lux Aeterna, a five-movement choral cycle that Lauridsen composed in response to his mother’s final illness. Just as Lauridsen found “great personal comfort and solace in setting to music these timeless and wondrous words about Light, a universal symbol of illumination at all levels – spiritual, artistic, and intellectual,” Illumina shows that even the tiniest spark of light can kindle peace, and healing.
Unity: Celebrating 10 Years
Columbia Community Gospel Choir, Columbia Youth Choirs, Unified Voices Gospel Choir from Columbia College, & special guests Deep River Singers [tentative – we’re in conversation]
February 8, 2025 | Launer Auditorium, Columbia College
CAAM and Columbia College partner up to honor Martin Luther King, Jr.’s legacy through a benefit concert performance of gospel-inspired works. Hailed as one of CAAM’s most powerful and uplifting concerts, Unity brings together individuals of all faiths and backgrounds to celebrate diversity and raise money for a local nonprofit, and has raised over $18,000 for organizations like the Men’s Minority Network, Granny’s House, United Community Builders, and City of Refuge. This year, we celebrate 10 years of promoting Unity in the Community, while also remembering Dr. King’s call for humankind to persevere: “Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable. [. . .] Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.”
Prometheus on Tour: Honoring Home
Prometheus: An American Vocal Consort
Tour April 2-5, 2025
Prometheus returns home to Columbia during their second tour of the season to connect, collaborate, and perform with several choirs in the CAAM community through concerts and workshops.
Odyssey Baroque Concert
Prometheus
Conductor: R. Paul Crabb
Friday, April 4, 2025 | First Baptist Church 1112 E Broadway, Columbia, MO 65201
Prometheus collaborates with esteemed musicians to perform a Bach cantata on the highly acclaimed Odyssey Chamber Music Series Baroque Concert.
Musical Roots
Prometheus with select CYC ensembles
Conductors: R. Paul Crabb, Emily Edgington Andrews, and Clara Smith
Saturday, April 5, 2025 | 2: 00 p.m.
Prometheus members team up with members of Columbia Youth Choirs to perform a concert dedicated to honoring their musical roots.
IN PARADISUM: Duruflé’s Requiem
Columbia Chorale & Concert Chorale from University of Missouri
With guest conductor Kari Adams
April 11, 2025 | Missouri United Methodist Church
MU’s Concert Chorale and Columbia Chorale join together to present a concert of ethereal choral works, highlighted by Duruflé’s most well known masterpiece, Requiem. Requiem began as an unfinished organ suite based on the plainchants for the Mass for the Dead, before he transformed it into his Requiem for chorus, soloists, and instruments. Completed in 1947, it was dedicated to the memory of the composer’s father, and is Duruflé’s longest and most substantial work. Duruflé wrote, “This Requiem is not an ethereal work which sings of detachment from earthly worries. It reflects . . . the agony of man faced with the mystery of his ultimate end. It is often dramatic, or filled with resignation, or hope or terror, just as the words of the Scripture themselves, which are used in the liturgy. It tends to translate human feelings before their terrifying, unexplainable or consoling destiny” before ending with “the ultimate answer of Faith to all the questions by the flight of the soul to Paradise.”
Missouri Composers Project
Premiere Vocal Artists with Columbia Civic Orchestra and Mizzou New Music
7:30 p.m. | April 13, 2025
Broadway Christian Church
FREE and open to the public
Now in its thirteenth year, MOCOP is a collaborative effort involving the Mizzou New Music Initiative, the Columbia Civic Orchestra, Premiere Vocal Artists (CAAM’s newest initiative) and the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation. Composers from all over Missouri are invited each year to submit orchestral and choral works for potential performance, with winners selected by blind judging in two age categories: “open” and “high school.” In addition to the performance and a live recording of their work, all five winners of the competition receive a $500 honorarium from the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation.
Life’s Your Stage
Columbia Youth Choirs
April 27, 2025
The reviews are in, and CYC is a hit! CYC concludes another dynamic season with a showstopping performance of memorable songs from Broadway. Singing songs from the heart-rending to the hilarious, these performers will have you laughing, crying, and shouting “Encore!”
Pack your bags – CAAM is heading abroad!
Tour April 28-May 5, 2025
Join members of CAAM’s professional Artists-in-Residence Prometheus under the direction of R. Paul Crabb on a tour to Vienna, Austria this spring! We will have the opportunity to meet and collaborate with singers from the Momentum Vocal Ensemble conducted by Simon Erasimus, and perform in beautiful venues like Peterskirche and Brigittakirche.
More details to come.
2024-2025 Season Past Concerts
EXQUISITE PAIRINGS
Prometheus: An American Vocal Consort
Tour September 18-22, 2024
CAAM’s Artists-in-Residence Prometheus under Artistic Director R. Paul Crabb continue to transport audiences in unique and interactive concert experiences in their annual Exquisite Pairings tour. Prometheus’ 16 professional singers present sublime a cappella choral music in intimate settings, where audiences will enjoy food and drink specifically selected to pair with each musical piece for a most “delicious” concert experience.
Music & Spirits
Friday, Sept. 20 | 6-7:30 p.m.
Hugh Stephens Penthouse, top floor of Hugh Stephens Library, Stephens College | 1412 E. Walnut
$25/advance & $30/door
Prometheus hosts a lively happy hour with hors d’oeuvres & beverages. Limited seating available.
Community Choral Workshop
Saturday, Sept. 21 | 9 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Dorsey Gym, Columbia College| 1001 Rogers St.
$25/includes music & catered lunch
Join Prometheus in an interactive & educational workshop followed by an informal concert open to the public. Sponsored by the Columbia College Music Department.
A Little Lunch Music
Saturday, Sept. 21 | 12 – 1 p.m.
Dorsey Gym, Columbia College | 1001 Rogers St.
$20/concert with catered lunch & $10/concert only
Enjoy lunch & music in a concert featuring Prometheus & the Workshop Chorus.
Amongst the Art
Saturday, Sept. 21 | 7 p.m.
Sager Reeves Gallery | 1025 E. Walnut
$20/person (Purchase your tickets directly at: https://form.jotform.com/Caroline_Roush/art-show. If you have additional questions contact: 573-256-7662 ext. 148)
Experience Prometheus’s full concert program amongst art in the beautiful Sager Reeves Gallery in an event hosted by the MUMC Arts & Worship Committee benefitting Love Columbia. Limited seating available.
Learn more at: https://lovecolumbia.org/art-show
Pack your bags – CAAM is heading abroad!
Join members of CAAM’s professional Artists-in-Residence Prometheus under the direction of R. Paul Crabb on a tour to Vienna, Austria this spring! We will have the opportunity to meet and collaborate with singers from the Momentum Vocal Ensemble conducted by Simon Erasimus, and perform in beautiful venues like Stift Klosterneuburg, Dominikanerkirche Wien, and Brigittakirche. Deadline to lock in your spot and pay your $300 deposit is October 15!
More details HERE.
SHANTY NIGHT – A CAAM FUNDRAISER
October 18, 2024 6:00-7:30 p.m. | Cafe Berlin, 220 N. 10th St.
Come one, come all to the first installment of the CAAM Shanty Choir! Led by an experienced shantyman from the Kansas City Chapter of the Shanty Choir, enjoy an evening of camaraderie and fun as we raise money for the organization that believes that everyone deserves to find their voice. All ages are welcome and no music-reading experience is needed to sing the songs of the high sea.
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