Spring 2010 Occidental Choir Concerts

"Naked with Chocolate: Songs of Love and Earthly Delights"

The Occidental Community Choir spring concert theme, “Naked With Chocolate: Songs of Love and Earthly Delight,” has something of a back story. Every year, the choir’s program committee decides on the spring theme, and many years back, some bright bulb suggested “Naked with Chocolate” as a tongue-in-cheek answer to the perennial question, “What theme might have the greatest audience appeal?” “Naked with Chocolate” became the theme that was proposed and shrugged off every year thereafter—always a bridesmaid, never a bride, considered too silly or risqué to take seriously.

This year, we’ve finally decided to take the plunge, in the belief that we must risk the absurd in order to achieve the sublime. Perhaps above all other human emotions and experiences, love has inspired poets and musicians down through the ages, and “Naked with Chocolate: Songs of Love and Earthly Delight” will provide audiences with a bountiful buffet of love songs, from madrigal to modern. The more earthy pleasures of good food and drink, comfortable shoes, belly laughs, and other pleasures of the flesh will also be praised in song and story. Combining OCC original lyrics and compositions with selections from the broader choral repertoire, along with poetry, storytelling, unusual instruments and unpredictable shenanigans, it promises to be an OCC concert not to be missed.

Tickets

Tickets are $15 general admission, $13 for seniors (62 and up), free admission for children 12 years and younger.

Purchase Tickets Online

Tickets can be purchased at the door the day of performance, on a space-available basis, one half hour before the concert begins.

For more information, phone 707-547-0204

*The Sunday, May 23 concert will be a benefit for James Saulsbury. James is our choir director, Sarah Saulsbury's son. He was recently diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkin's Lymphoma and is undergoing extensive treatment.