A Return to Masterworks - Sunday

We're returning our focus to masterworks of the choral repertoire, featuring well-known classics and beautiful contemporary works.

From Schubert’s radiant Mass in G — composed with remarkable grace at just eighteen years old — to Eric Whitacre’s tender and luminous Five Hebrew Love Songs, this program spans centuries of choral beauty rooted in devotion, poetry, and shared human longing. Completing the journey, a living lineage of sacred chant moves from ancient Byzantine melody through Tchaikovsky to contemporary composers John Tavener, and John Rutter, tracing the enduring power of the human voice in worship and wonder.

Concert Program

The Classical Masterwork: Mass in G, D167 (1815)
by Franz Schubert  Sung in Latin, with vocal soloists and string quartet accompaniment

The Contemporary Masterwork:  Five Hebrew Love Songs (1996)
Music by Eric Whitacre, Poetry by Hila Plitmann  Sung in Hebrew, with vocal soloists and solo violin accompaniment

1. Temuná (A Picture)

2. Kalá Kallá (Light Bride)

3. Lárov (Mostly)

4. Éyze Shéleg! (What Snow!)

5. Rakút (Tenderness)

Connecting the Ages: The Evolution of Liturgical Chant

1. Byzantine Chant/Lenten Divine Liturgy Selections (Traditional)

2. Cherubim Song (P. I. Tchaikovsky)

3. Song for Athene (John Tavener)

4. The Lord Is My Shepherd (John Rutter)

The program runs for about an hour without intermission.  It is subject to change without notice.