Welcoming Hands
Andrew Megill, conductor
The choir’s first concert of the year explores compositions of the past and present blending prayer, meditation, pain, and hope. With music from the 17th century to the present day, BCE vividly performs works spanning traditional African American spirituals, motets, sacred music in the concertato style, and more.
Thomas Tallis, excerpts from Lamentations of Jeremiah
Caleb Burhans, Super flumina Babylonis
Francesco Cavalli, Salve Regina
John Pickard, “Credo” from Mass in Troubled Times
Nicholas Cline, she took his hands
Johann Hermann Schein, Zion spricht
Caroline Shaw, To the Hands
Traditional African American spiritual (arr. Moses Hogan), “Deep River”
Cost: $8 general public / $5 students with valid ID
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