A Multitude of Voyces
Bach’s wondrous motet Jesu, meine Freude, remarkable for its musical architecture, shines alongside music by women composers of the past and present, from the Stabat Mater of Sister Sulpitia Cesis to the New York premiere of Kerensa Briggs’ “Hear my prayer,” and including New York-born composers Rani Arbo and Melanie DeMore.
TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2023, 7:30 PM
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
1047 Amsterdam Ave., New York
Kent Tritle, conductor
Isabella Leonarda: Alma Redemptoris Mater
Kerensa Briggs: Hear my prayer (New York Premiere)
Sister Sulpitia Cesis: Stabat Mater
Maria Xaveria Peruchona: Cessate tympany, cessate praelia
Ethyl Smyth: Komm süsser Tod
Amy Beach: Lord, now lettest thou (Nunc dimittis)
Melanie DeMore: Blessed be!
Rani Arbo: Crossing the Bar
J.S. Bach: Jesu, meine Freude
Undine Smith Moore: We shall walk through the valley
6:45 PM – Pre-concert recital by the Newark Boys Chorus
