The concert at South Main Baptist Church will feature audience and staff favorites
Billy Joel is one of the artists who will be saluted in the Houston Chamber Choir's Desert Island Playlists concert.In 1942, the BBC created “Desert Island Discs,” a weekly radio program that asks notable figures from all walks of British life to select a handful of items, mostly recordings, they’d want in hand if stranded in such a remote locale — music, in other words, they couldn’t live without.
“My feeling as we were doing this season was that, in this time when anxiety is running high and we're feeling that things are just about to get more than we can handle, it would be a good idea for us to return to the familiar, to things that we know and love and enjoy,” says Robert Simpson, the choir’s founder and artistic director.
Suggestions came pouring in. According to Simpson, multiple people requested Gregorio Allegri’s “Miserere mei,” which — as the story goes — was once known only to those who heard the Sistine Chapel choir until a teenage Mozart heard it twice and transcribed it from memory. Others put in for Randall Thompson’s “Alleluia,” a more modern pillar of the choral repertoire originally composed in 1940.
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