The intimate Mills Concert Hall felt hardly large enough to contain the force of the UW Choral Union and Symphony Orchestra without crumbling. Director Beverly Taylor led 168 choir members, a 69-piece orchestra and four soloists, narrowly confined within the rim of the stage, in a colossal concert.
The Saturday and Sunday performances featured Antonin Dvorak’s weighty “Stabat Mater,” one of his rarely heard choral works, despite the fact that the Czech composer, more known for symphonic and chamber music, actually wrote several pieces for voice.