St. John Brebeuf Launches New Concert Series Sept. 27

St. John Brebeuf Musica Lumina concert series opens Sunday, September 27

The Musica Lumina 2015-16 concert series opens Sunday, Sept. 27, at St. John Brebeuf Church in Niles. The 3 p.m. concert—Perspectives on Love and War—will feature tenor Christopher Reames, and include music by Benjamin Britten, Gerald Finzi, Olivier Messiaen, and Vaughan Williams. A free-will offering will be taken, but there is no admission charge.

Sponsored by Relevant Radio and Bugle Newspapers, the nine concert 2015-16 series organized by SJB Music Director Marek Rachelski will include three commemorative concerts given in honor of the legacy of the Rev. Stanley Rudki, the former chair of the Niles College Department of Fine Arts, who founded the Niles Concert Choir and Niles Symphony Orchestra in the 1960s. They are Magnificats on Sunday, October 25, at 3 p.m., a Do-it-Yourself Messiah on Tuesday, December 1, at 7 p.m., and Mozart: Mass in C Minor, K. 427, on Sunday, March 20, at 3 p.m.

Five additional concerts will feature New Traditions Barbership Chorus with the Purdue University Varsity Men’s Glee Club on October 10 at 8 p.m. (with admission charge for this concert only), Quintet Attacca on Sunday, Jan. 17 at 3 p.m., Avanti Guitar Trio on Sunday, Feb. 21 at 3 p.m., The Singing Boys of Rockford on Sunday, April 24 at 3 p.m. and Music from the Slavic World on Sunday, May 15, at 3 p.m.

For more information, call 847-966-8145 or visit www.sjbrebeuf.org. For information about sponsorships on individual concerts or the series, call 847-720-4495.