FEATURED PERFORMERS
Scott Tucker, conductor
Nolan Williams, Jr., guest conductor
Jacqueline Echols, soprano
Karmesha Peake, mezzo-soprano
Norman Shankle, tenor
Kenneth Overton, baritone
S. Renee Mitchell, poet and narrator

Choral Arts Symphonic Chorus
Scott Tucker, Artistic Director

Resonance Ensemble
Katherine FitzGibbon, Artistic Director

NEWorks Voices of America
NEWorks Philharmonic Orchestra
Nolan Williams, Jr., Artistic Director

THE PROGRAM
Nolan Williams, Jr.: Spirituals Suite for Choir and Orchestra (excerpts)

Movement 1. City Called Heaven
Movement 2. Done Made My Vow

~10-minute pause~

Damien Geter: An African American Requiem (East-coast premiere)

1. Introit
2. Kyrie
3. Recitative
4. Dies Irae
5. Tuba Mirum
6. I Can’t Breathe
7. Mors stupebit
8. There’s A Man Goin’ Round/Liber Scriptus
9. Quid sum miser
10. Rex tremendae
11. Recordare
12. Ingemisco
13. Confutatis
14. Lacrimosa
15. Offertory
16. Sanctus (Kum Ba Yah)
17. Agnus Dei
18. Lux aeterna
19. Libera Me/Lynching is Color-Line Murder
20. In Paradisum / Walk Together Children

PERFORMANCE TIMING
First Half: 15 minutes | Pause: 10 minutes | Second Half: 85 minutes