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Registration is open for the sixth annual Bahá’í Choral Music Festival, to be held May 24–27 in Wilmette and Evanston, Illinois, and dozens of people from several countries have already registered. Two devotional concerts by a massed choir on Sunday, May 27, will culminate the festival, and in recent years those concerts have drawn more [...]
5th Annual Baha’i Choral Music Festival — Sunday, May 29
Nearly 250 talented voices from eight nations will sing beautiful sacred music in the 2011 Baha’i Choral Festival with two free public concerts on Sunday May 29th at Wilmette’s renowned Baha’i Temple. Rich harmonies and uplifting music will fill the 1,200-seat Baha’i House of Worship beginning at 9:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Sunday. The Fifth [...]
Since its start in 2007, the annual Baha’i House of Worship Choral Music Festival has attracted musicians and sacred music lovers from around the world. As many as 200 singers spend three days together, learning and rehearsing the a cappella choir parts. The festivals culminate with free, public performances, often for full audiences in the [...]
The Ageless Northshore website editors, Don and Peg Shearn, interviewed the Baha’i House of Worship Music Director, Van Gilmer, for a story on their site this week – Van Gilmer: the Harmonious Voice of Diversity.
It is with great anticipation that we announce the third annual Baha’i Choral Music Festival, to be held May 21-24 at the Baha’i House of Worship.
The Baha’i House of Worship Choir began this season with its schedule of singing on the first three Sundays of the month and at special events such as memorial services and holy day observances.
Close to 200 people gathered May 27 at the Bahai House of Worship for the North American Continent — and that was just the choir. An additional 1,000 people were there to hear the first-ever choral festival at the Wilmette temple just outside of Chicago.