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Brainerd Blyden-Taylor, conductor
Five Short Choral Works – Adolphus Hailstork
I Will Sing of Life (Arthur Graham)
Nocturne (Jim Curtis)
Crucifixion “He Never Said a Mumblin’ Word” (Traditional Spiritual)
The Cloths of Heaven (William Butler Yeats)
The Lamb (William Blake)
Three by Langston – Ricky Ian Gordon
New Moon
Luck
Joy
INTERMISSION
Missa Afro-Brasileira – Carlos Alberto Pinto Fonseca
(Based on Afro-Brazilian Rhythms and Lullabies)
Kyrie
Christe
Kyrie II
Gloria
Nos vos Louvamos
Gratias Agimus
Quoniam
Credo
E Se Encarnou (Et Incarnatus)
Et Unam Sanctam
Et Vitam
Amen
Sanctus
Hosanna
Benedictus
Benedito Aquele
Hosanna
Agnus Dei
Dona Nobis
This delightful spring concert is full of powerful, haunting and infectious rhythms and melodies. It showcases Adolphus Hailstork’s impressive Five Short Choral Works, which include striking settings of Arthur Graham’s “I Will Sing of Life” and the beloved Yeats poem “The Cloths of Heaven”; Ricky Ian Gordon’s Three By Langston, settings of love poems by famed poet Langston Hughes; and Carlos Alberto Pinto Fonseca’s monumental Missa Afro-Brasileira, based on Afro-Brazilian rhythms and lullabies.
