Here is information on our upcoming concert for calendar listings:

seattlegleeclubs.org/upcoming-events

Seattle Metropolitan Singers Spring Concert, “Women in Love,” Sunday May 31, 2026, 3pm

Concert location: St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church, 3050 California Ave SW, Seattle

$20 suggested donation

The Seattle Metropolitan Singers (“The Met”) is an adult treble choir. We will be welcoming new members in the fall, we rehearse in West Seattle at The Kenney on Tuesday evenings. Laurie de Leonne is our artistic director, Nathan Shiu is our collaborative pianist.

Just for fun, here is the link with the mets caroling during last year’s hometown holidays, crowd favorite “Big Dumper” is about three and a half minutes into the video.

https://www.seattlegleeclubs.org/past-events/hometown2025

The Mets commissioned a new work for our “Women in Love” concert called “Come See Me in the Good Light.” Here is more information for curious readers.

“Come See Me in the Good Light”

Music by Matthew Harris, matthewharrismusic.com Part II of Good Light, © 2018 by Andrea Gibson, commissioned and premiered by the Seattle Metropolitan Singers May 2026

About the text author:

Andrea Gibson (1975-2025) was an American poet and activist. Their poetry focused on gender norms, politics, social justice, LGBTQ topics, life, and mortality. Gibson was appointed as the Poet Laureate of Colorado in 2023.

About the piece, by composer Matthew Harris:

As I viewed the many online videos of poet Andrea Gibson, I became fascinated with the world of “slam poetry,” and realized that its high energy, immediacy and irreverence were the very things I had been trying to bring to choral music. Subsequently, writing this work was a joy, even, or especially, when trying to keep up with the poem’s wild mood swings. And since I often create works based on a constantly repeated motif, this poem’s constant one-word repetition was a gift. Finally, as coolness and ironic detachment seems to be modern poetry’s default mode, I found this poem’s endless and unabashed declarations of love refreshing and inspiring.

About the composer:

Matthew Harris represented North America in a recent consortium commission of choral works in memory of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Last year, his piece was subsequently performed worldwide by various choruses, culminating in Leipzig with the Gewandhaus Choir. He has had works played by the Minnesota, Houston and Florida Symphony Orchestras, and by Chelsea Opera, the New York City Opera, and the Lake George Opera Festival. The National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Tanglewood, Chautauqua Chamber Singers, Georges Enesco Foundation, Society for New Music, ASCAP, and BMI are among the organizations that have awarded him fellowships and composition prizes. His works are published by G. Schirmer and C.F. Peters and recordings of his works include Kantorei of Kansas City’s “Music and Sweet Poetry: Choral Music by Matthew Harris” on Resonus Classics. “Women in Love” can be heard on La Caccina’s album, Open Book. Mr. Harris currently teaches at Brooklyn College, CUNY.