Choir Concert: "Stronger Than the Storm"

Featuring Glee, Chamber Singers, and Jazz Singers

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Tickets: $15 Faculty/Staff/Non-SMC Students; $20 General Admission; SMC Students, High School Juniors, and Admitted First Year Students for Fall '26 FREE with student ID.

Stronger Than the Storm, featuring Glee, Chamber Singers, and Jazz Singers, brings to life a rich tapestry of music reflecting the enduring human capacity to recognize hardship, withstand it, and—within community—emerge renewed. Themes of perseverance and hope are woven throughout texts that honor ancestral strength, confront suffering and injustice, and affirm that “love, indivisible…strength indescribable…brings a peace beyond all human understanding.”

From the profound depth of excerpts from Mass of the Forgotten to the rhythmic vitality of the ancestral prayer Mojuba, the expansive Nepalese imagery of Tse Go La, and the rousing I Know Where I've Been from Hairspray, each work offers a distinct lens on grief, resilience, and redemption. These are set alongside a Renaissance love song by Sermisy, the luminous Sanctus from Fauré’s Requiem, the heart-wrenching jazz classic Body and Soul, and more contemporary works by Billie Eilish, Earth, Wind & Fire, The Beatles, Rascal Flatts, Reba McEntire, U2, and Beyoncé.

Directed by Dr. Julie Ford, with Professors Meredith Hawkins and Paul Caccamo, the evening includes highlights from four senior capstone soloists (Kate Conti, Rose Du Pont, Kaylin Holliman, and Ashlyn Storie). A variety of instrumentalists—students, alumni, and guest artists—bring this music to life with percussion, harp, strings, flutes, guitars, organ, piano, and a chorus of rainsticks, creating a textured, luminous, and at times toe-tapping sound experience that is both intimate and powerful. The concert culminates in the closing piece, Stronger Than the Storm by Greg Murai, featuring all the choirs. We hope you leave with tears, laughter, hope, and a shared knowing: that together, rooted in love, we are stronger than any storm.