'There Was a Tree: Songs of Flowers, Trees, Birds and Bees'

The Collage Vocal Ensemble invites you to join us in a celebration of all things botanical. The chorus will present a varied and entertaining program of choral and small ensemble works: romantic English part songs by Holst, Bridge, and Vaughan Williams; Eric Whitacre's lush and thrilling Three Flower Songs; close-harmony jazz standards by Cole Porter and Joseph Kosma; Broadway hits from Lucy Simon's The Secret Garden and Bernstein's Candide. CVE is particularly proud to present one of the first public performances of "Water Lilies," an ethereal setting of the Sara Teasdale poem by Raymond Chen. All net proceeds will be donated to the Music in the Schools Foundation.