Pioneer Valley Cappella, led by music director, Geoffrey Hudson performs its Spring Concert. The program’s title comes from Peteris Vasks’s setting of a prayer by Mother Teresa: "The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit of love is service, the fruit of service is peace.". Composed in 2013, Vask's musical meditation on Mother Teresa's words is serene, almost motionless, and shimmers with complex harmonies.

Featured is the premiere of Four Sacred Pieces by Geoff Hudson. These new works are paired with settings of the same words by older composers: Parsley, Rachmaninoff, Byrd and Purcell. These are followed by 3 spirituals by Undine Smith Moore, and "Psalm 84" by Louis Lewandowski who was a protégé of Felix Mendelssohn, the first Jewish student at the Prussian Academy of Arts who served Berlin's synagogues for more than fifty years.

Purcell's radiant Te Deum and Jubilate in D concludes the concert. The PVC's 32 voices combine with string quartet, organ, and two trumpets to create a joyous and thrilling sound-world.

Pioneer Valley Cappella, an auditioned chamber chorus based in Northampton has been performing locally for more than 40 years, and for nearly half that time under the musical direction of local composer and conductor, Geoffrey Hudson. The ensemble is joined by instrumentalists, Colleen Jennings, Michelle Liechti, Stephanie Railsback, Larry Schipull, Fred Holden, and Brooks Holmes.