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2025 concert season
Dr. Paul French and Southern Oregon Repertory Singers have another marvelous season of heart-lifting choral music. The 2025 Season includes pieces from old masters and young composers, as well as Scottish, Haitian, and Finnish Folk songs.
To purchase tickets, please see the ticket form below or call our Box Office at 541-552-0900. Most performances take place in the Music Recital Hall at Southern Oregon University, located at 450 South Mountain Avenue in Ashland.
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Upcoming Concert
Cannons into Bells
Location: SOU Music Recital Hall
Sat., May 24, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
Sun., May 25, 2025, 2:00 p.m.
Cannons Into Bells is a concert of beautiful, transformative choral music performed by Southern Oregon Repertory Singers, soloists, and chamber orchestra as part of this year’s James M. Collier New Works Festival. The program explores the idea of transformations. Our feature commissioned work, Cannons into Bells, by Repertory Singers’ Composer in Residence, Jodi French, explores the tragic cycle of bells being melted into cannons during times of war, then changed back in times of peace. It is an urgent plea for a better world in which we “kindle the fire of love, melting the armor of our hearts into bells of peace”. Other featured works include Joby Talbot’s ethereal Leon, the story of pilgrims walking the Camino de Santiago — the Way of St. James — hoping to transform their lives, set for 17-part choir a cappella; Samuel Barber’s Agnus Dei, a texted version of his famous Adagio for Strings, performed with choir and orchestra; and Dan Forrest’s grand setting of e.e. cummings’ I thank thee God for most this amazing day for choir and orchestra, celebrating the transformative power of nature to turn our “no” into “yes.”
Note: There will be a Pre-Concert Lecture by Dr. Margaret Evans, SOU Professor of Music Emerita 1 hour before the performance (May 24, 6:30 p.m./ May 25, 1:00 p.m).
2025-2026 Concert Season Details
The Skies Sing
Sat., Oct. 25, 2025, 7:30 p.m.
Sun., Oct. 26, 2025, 2:00 p.m.
“The Skies Sing” celebrates love and the transformative power of music. Highlights include Britten’s Hymn to Saint Cecilia, Lauridsen’s Chansons des Roses, Rilke’s poetic settings, rhapsodies by Rheinberger and Antognini, Ricky Ian Gordon’s Joy inspired by Langston Hughes, and Jodi French’s arrangement of an Ellington swing classic.
A Ceremony of Carols
Fri., Dec. 19, 2025 (Time & Location TBA)
Sat., Dec. 20, 2025, 2:00 p.m.
Sun., Dec. 21, 2025, 2:00 p.m.
This concert celebrates the timeless appeal of holiday carols, featuring Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, Craig Kingsbury’s There is No Rose, a performance by the Grants Pass Concert Choir, and Jodi French’s arrangement of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.
Grace Before Sleep
Sat., Mar. 7, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
Sun., Mar. 8, 2026, 2:00 p.m.
This concert features the opening movement of Handel’s Dixit Dominus, Kingsbury’s sprightly A Song for Midsummer’s Eve and LaBarr’s heartfelt Grace Before Sleep. It also presents evocative folk music from Finland and Estonia, music of Mozart, a collection of musical settings of Shakespeare, and Gibbs’ tour-de-force Ezekiel Saw the Wheel.
To the End in Songs
Sat., May 9, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
Sun., May 10, 2026, 2:00 p.m.
Composers Peter Relph and Jodi French address the transformation of discord into harmony in two commissioned works. Relph’s To the End in Songs explores an inward journey, while French’s The Stranger Among You grapples with injustices described in Poet Laureate Lawson Inada’s Japanese Internment Camp experience.
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