The Promise of Living

We are offering a program of uplifting, life-affirming choral music to spread some much-needed hope and joy to our community. Please join us! Admission is free.

Program:

My Spirit Sang All Day– Gerald Finzi’s triumphant shout of joy – celebrates ardent and fervent love.
Ubi Caritas – Maurice Duruflé’s reverent Latin motet has as its opening text – “Where love and charity abide, God is present.”
Virgil Thomson’s Rose Cheek’d Laura, Come artfully sets verse by Thomas Campion, a highly regarded British poet and lute-song composer. The song extolls the beauty and delight of a comely young lady.
American composer Matthew Harris has a special affinity for William Shakespeare’s verse. O Mistress Mine tells of the fleeting nature of youth and the need to love now rather than later.
Norman Dello Joio’s A Jubilant Song – a jazzy and appropriately upbeat setting of a Walt Whitman text – zestfully celebrates joy and life.
Aaron Copland’s The Promise of Living brilliantly and upliftingly closes the first act of his 1954-composed opera The Tender Land.
Talkback with selected performers and Music Director John W. Ehrlich immediately following the concert