December 2019

O Radiant Dawn: Choral reflections from scripture, poets, and an astronaut

Schedule

5 pm Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019
University Lutheran Church
66 Winthrop Street
Cambridge, MA

8 pm Friday, Dec. 13, 2019
Church of our Saviour
25 Monmouth Street
Brookline, MA

5 pm Sunday, Dec. 15, 2019
First Lutheran Church of Boston
299 Berkeley Street
Boston, MA

Program

Join us in celebrating Oriana’s twenty-fifth anniversary season!

Choral music for the year’s end, by Bach, Brahms, and Verdi. We will present James MacMillan’s O Radiant Dawn, and Kirke Mechem’s Island in Space -- a choral setting of the poem written by astronaut Rusty Schweickart upon contemplating the Earth from space during the Apollo 9 Mission in March 1968. Also: carols and motets by Gregor Aichinger, Ola Gjeilo, Libby Larsen, Cecilia McDowall, Claudio Monteverdi, and Philip Stopford.

Read director Walter Chapin's program notes!

Boston Globe subscribers: Read about the "musical brain-teaser" featured on this program!

Libby Larsen (1950-) A Simple Gloria

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Cantate Domino canticum novum

Ola Gjeilo (1978–) The First Nowell

Philip Stopford (1977-) Coventry Carol

Cecilia McDowall (1951-) Now may we singen

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) Pezzi sacri. Ave Maria

Gregor Aichinger (1564-1628) Laudate Dominum in sanctis eius

James MacMillan (1959-) O radiant dawn

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) Motet, op. 74. O Heiland, reiss die Himmel auf

Kirke Mechem (1925-) Island in Space

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Motet, BWV 225. Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied