04/27/2026
Please join us at the Basilica of St. Adalbert on Saturday, May 16 at 7:00 and again on Sunday, May 17 at 3:00 for the concluding programs of the 36th Season of the Grand Rapids Choir of Men & Boys.
These will be two very special performances in the life of our choir as they will mark the conclusion of Scott Bosscher’s 25 years of leadership, as well as introducing our Choir’s next Director of Music, Dr. Eric Reyes.
Reflecting how Scott has viewed the music and ministry of the choir through the past quarter century, he has titled the program: “A Place Where God’s Song Finds its Voice in Us.”
Musical settings by Durufle, Stopford, Mealor & Gjeilo
of the ancient Ubi Caritas text: “Where charity and love are found, there is God also” will anchor each the concert’s four movements. Filling out each section around them will be some of the most loved choral works from the British Cathedral tradition.
To list a few, the choir will sing Henry Purcell’s verse anthem “O God, Thou Art My God” as well as Mendelssohn’s double anthem “Hear My Prayer” and “O For the Wings of a Dove” each with their soaring extended boy soprano solos. Two of the most famous grand English Cathedral anthems will also be performed: C.H.H. Parry’s monumental anthem “I Was Glad When They Said Unto Me” and John Ireland’s “Greater Love Hath No Man.” Other selections by CV. Stanford, Will Todd, Ralph Vaughan Williams & Taylor Scott Davis will fill out the program.
Please join us for share in these thrilling English Anthems, to say farewell to Scott & Jane Bosscher, and to greet GRCMB’s next Director of Music, Dr. Eric Reyes along with our newly appointed Associate Director, Jordan Malone.
