Abstract
Composer and activist Leonard Bernstein once wrote: “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” Recommitting itself to beauty in a world plagued with mass shootings, profiling and hate speech, the Handel Society performs Bernstein’s lyrical, ebullient setting of some of the Old Testament’s most uplifting passages. The group also presents the world premiere of a work by Dominic DiOrio commissioned for the chorus’ 210th anniversary plus music from the Baltics and beyond that bolsters hope and peace
Programme: M. Duruflé, F. Poulenc, J.P. Sweelinck, G. Fauré, R. Thompson, S. Rachmaninoff, L. Boulanger