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Magnificat[8’31]Tawnie Olson (b1974)
Elm City Girls’ Choir, Rebecca Rosenbaum (conductor), Samantha Joy Foggle (soprano), Alev Sibel Yorulmaz (soprano), Emma Blair (alto), Sophia Cheng (alto), Simon Lee (tenor), James Reese (tenor)
A New England Symphony[21’33]Roderick Williams (b1965)
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O brother man[3’46]
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By night when others soundly slept[5’18]
Nola Richardson (soprano), Daniel Moody (countertenor), Tyler Ray (tenor), Brendan Fitzgerald (bass)
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Divine Humanity! Behold Lo! for this dark terrestrial Dome[4’26]
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Liberty’s champion On the wings of the wind he comes, he comes![8’03]
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God be in my head[1’53]David Hill (b1957)
Brendan Fitzgerald (bass)
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Shout joy! O sing unto God[4’34]Daniel Kellogg (b1976)
This love between us ‘Prayers for unity'[38’40]Reena Esmail (b1983)
Juilliard415, Rabindra Goswami (sitar), Ramchandra Pandit (tabla)
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[Buddhism] All beings tremble before violence[4’46]
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[Sikhism] How can we call someone evil?[5’27]
Adele Dominguez (mezzo-soprano)
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[Christianity] Owe no man anything but to love one another[4’22]
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[Zoroastrianism] All humankind would know its own lineage and stock[3’57]
Charles Littlewood (bass)
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[Hinduism] This love between us goes back to the first humans[7’32]
James Reese (tenor), Addy Sterrett (soprano)
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[Jainism] If the mind is sinful[4’13]
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[Islam] The lamps may be different, but the light is the same[8’23]
With a spectacular vocal contribution from the Elm City Girls’ Choir (we defy you to resist an immediate encore), and compositions by Roderick Williams and David Hill himself among others, Yale Schola Cantorum’s exuberant celebration of contemporary choral music with a New England twist is certain to win new friends for this repertoire.