Northwest Choral Society opens season with ‘A Feast of Psalms’ concert

On Sunday, Nov. 8, Northwest Choral Society opens its 2026-27 season with a program that explores texts from the Book of Psalms. The prayerful poetic writings have been a source of inspiration for people of all backgrounds and faith traditions for millennia.

Hear music created over four centuries ago by composers like William Byrd and Palestrina, alongside music crafted by master composers of our own time like Caroline Shaw and James MacMillan. Also featured will be American composer Charles Ives’s monumental setting of Psalm 67, and explore the rich sonorities of German Romanticism in Johannes Brahms’s multi-movement work, “Schaffe in mir, Gott.” Rounding out the program are settings of Psalms from Lili Boulanger, Charles Wood, Franz Schubert, William Mathias, Lucy Walker, and Dave Brubeck

“A Feast of Psalms” will be performed from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Church, 675 E. Algonquin Road in Des Plaines.

Tickets are $21.95 or $16.95 for seniors, age 55 or older or students. For information or tickets, go to nwchoralsociety.org/concerts/fall-concert/.