Laugh Tracks - An Evening of Choral Humor - Fall 2025

Chromatica's Fall concerts will be at 3pm on November 15 at Holy Shepherd Lutheran Church, 433 Moraga Way in Orinda and at 7pm on November 16 at Peace Lutheran Church, 3201 Camino Tassajara in Danville. The Danville concert will include Chromatica's popular post-concert reception.

Get ready to laugh out loud as we celebrate music's humorous side! Chromatica has chosen a whole range of comedic classics that illustrate music's unique ability to amuse while still providing excellent choral performance. Chromatica wants its audience to laugh with them as they cover a range of compositions from madrigals to the baroque, from oratorios to Gilbert and Sullivan and from lieders to musical theatre. No significant musical genre has been left unscathed!

The concerts include madrigals Fair Phyllis and Fyer, Fyer. A series of musical spoofs include Turn off your phone to the tune of Pachelbel's canon and a piano solo by Chromatica's outstanding accompanist Julie Rieth revisiting PDQ Bach, a Peter Schickele spoof series that began in 1965. The PDQ Bach focus continues with The Seasonings, a spoof of Handel's Messiah and Haydn's The Seasons. Duet for Two Cats is set to music by Rossini. A Few Gentle Admonitions outspoofs Gilbert and Sullivan (as if one could). And of course Men in Tights.