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All of the music on the program relates to the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic from a choral singer’s perspective: using our breath to celebrate, express resilience, or meditate and using space to recalibrate our relationships, musical and otherwise. We explore how composers historically imagined space as a critical musical element with antiphonal works of DuFay and Salazar. With a Baroque-era motet and harmonic overtone singing, we explore both a breathlessness and connection to the past.  We visit outdoor spaces with Sure on this Shining Night, I Go Among Trees, Luminous Night of the Soul, and with Fanny Mendelssohn’s Gartenlieder.

Program:

Gloria ad modum tubae                                                      Guillaume DuFay

There is a Balm in Gilead                                               arr. Joseph Jennings

Great Day                                                                             arr. Moses Hogan

The Word Was God                                                           Rosephanye Powell

Ain’-a That Good News                                                   arr. William L. Dawson

O sacrum convivium                                                       Antonio de Salazar

Shir hamma’alot                                                              Salamone Rossi

Past Life Melodies                                                            Sarah Hopkins

Gartenlieder, Op. 3                                                           Fanny Mendelssohn

      Lockung (Joseph von Eichendorff)

      Schöne Fremde (von Eichendorff)

      Im Herbste (Johann Ludwig Uhland)

      Morgengruß (Wilhelm Hensel)

      Abendlich schon rauscht der Wald (von Eichendorff)

      Im Wald (Emanuel Geibel)

Sure on This Shining Night (from Four Songs, Op. 3)       Samuel Barber

I Go Among Trees                                                                        Giselle Wyers

Luminous Night of the Soul                                                   Ola Gjeilo

Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, BWV 230                   Johann Sebastian Bach

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