Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus

Almost all of the musicians in Saturday’s orchestra concert will have performed Verdi’s Requiem at least once, and some will

As Chautauquans say goodbye to one another on Sunday night in the Amphitheater, they will be celebrating and reminiscing on

The Buffalo Philharmonic Chorus will celebrate its 75th anniversary with Chautauqua in its season-opening-concert featuring Bach’s “Magnificat” and Leonard Bernstein’s “MASS.” Doreen Rao will conduct the chorus and the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra at 8:15 p.m. Saturday in the Amphitheater. “Chautauqua is an exquisite intersection between the arts and spirituality,” she said. “It just exudes the kind of an enlightened energy that makes listening to and making beautiful music immediately understood in so many different ways.”