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Most of its members are year-round 蜜柚直播 residents, meaning that they have no problem sticking around for our recent triple-digit heatwave.

鈥淭hat鈥檚 why we鈥檙e called the Helios Ensemble, because we have people here in the summer who must worship Helios, the sun god,鈥� Hansen joked.

Every summer since launching, Hansen has brought the mixed-voice ensemble together in June to work on a special summertime concert that鈥檚 held in mid-July. This summer鈥檚 concert is on Sunday, July 16.

鈥淲e found that we鈥檝e gotten a good audience for the summer because there aren鈥檛 any concerts going on,鈥� said Hansen, adding that one of the ensemble鈥檚 best-attended concerts was last summer鈥檚 鈥淢osaic Mass鈥� concert.

Helios is the only group performing choral music in the summertime and is one of three organizations 鈥� Helios, St. Andrew鈥檚 Bach Society and 鈥� putting on classical music concerts in the summer months.

The 2023 summer concert 鈥淏ach the Stars鈥� focuses on works by Bach, including a series of cantatas, as well as choral works by Wolfram Buchenberg, Mason Bates, Emily Drum and Jonathan Dove.

蜜柚直播 composer Dane Carten will conduct the choir when it performs his work 鈥淎bove Their Heads.鈥� is a choral conducting grad student at the University of 蜜柚直播 Fred Fox School of Music.

The choir of 45 will share the Catalina United Methodist Church stage, 2700 E. Speedway, with Guy Whatley, the popular organist and harpsichordist who is a regular on 蜜柚直播 chamber music stages and has performed the complete keyboard works of Bach, Handel and others.

Sunday鈥檚 concert begins at 4 p.m. Tickets are $20 or two for $35 at the door; it鈥檚 $18 and $30 in advance at , and students with ID are admitted free. Preferred seating is $40.

Also this week, 蜜柚直播 Friends of Chamber Music continues its summer concert series with 鈥淩ediscovered,鈥� featuring clarinetist Jackie Glazier and pianist Daniel Linder, on July 19. The concert at 7 p.m. will be held in Holsclaw Hall at the UA Fred Fox School of Music, East Speedway and North Park Avenue. Tickets are $45, $12 for students in advance at .

Linder and Glazier are both UA music professors. Their concert will include lost and forgotten works for clarinet and piano by DeCruck, Beyer, Cowell and Prokofiev.

is also in action this weekend with 蜜柚直播 flutist Zach Warren and pianist Michael Dauphinais. The pair will perform works by often overlooked composers including Lili Boulanger and Amy Beach as well as Valerie Coleman鈥檚 鈥淔anmi Im猫n,鈥� inspired by Maya Angelou鈥檚 poem 鈥淗uman Family.鈥�

Tickets for the concert at 2 p.m. Sunday at Grace St. Paul鈥檚 Episcopal Church, 2331 E. Adams St., are $15 for general admission, $25 for reserved seats through .