Coro Allegro presents From Darkness to Lightess to Light
When:
Sunday, Mar 09, 2025 3:00p -
4:30p
Sunday, Mar 09, 2025 3:00p -
4:30p
Where:
The Church of the Covenant
67 Newbury Street
Boston, MA 02116
Admission:
$25-65
Hosted by:
Categories:
Date Idea, LGBTQ+, Music, Social Good
Event website:
https://forms.coroallegro.org/nx/portal/neonevents/events?path=%2Fportal%2Fevents%2F8572
Join Coro Allegro, Boston’s LGBTQ+ and allied classical chorus and David Hodgkins, Artistic Director, for a concert featuring the World Premiere of There Will Come Soft Rains, an anti-war composition that takes its title from Sara Teasdale's famous poem. Composed by the Emmy-nominated Syrian-American composer Kareem Roustom, the work is scored for chorus, orchestra and French horn. An internationally acclaimed composer, Kareem Roustom is a Professor of Music at Tufts University. We’re pleased to feature Michael Bellofatto, on french horn.
There Will Come Soft Rains sets to music passages from the Bible and three poems by Andreas Gryphius, Annie Fields and Sara Teasdale. All four texts—spanning a millennia of human experience—offer a response to and a reflection on a war that defined each author's time. This new work poses fundamental questions: Why do we fight wars again and again? Do we not realize what is at stake?
The concert continues with a new orchestral arrangement of Greg Bullen's sometimes dark, yet whimsical song cycle, The Orchard. Based on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, it includes the poem "This Is Just to Say." Coro premiered this work in its original instrumentation in 2013. We will be joined by Aaron Engebreth, baritone, and Melissa Mielen, flute.
Finally, we present two selections from Shawn Kirchner's Heavenly Home, which celebrates the hope and longed-for peace and joy of life after death. Anchored in American spiritual music from the 19th century, the work draws on both the folk and shape note traditions to create a moving and uplifting a cappella choral experience.
We hope that you will join us for this extraordinary concert of music from our time. Bringing new compositions into the world is one of Coro Allegro's deepest joys. It will be a concert to be remembered. Please be sure to join us for a post-concert reception where you can meet the composers and visit with members of Coro Allegro
20% discounts available to all levels of tickets for students and seniors.
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