Everybody Sing!

Six prestigious professional and community choirs in Minnesota join forces with the VocalEssence Chorus and Ensemble Singers for a celebration of the incredible choral music tradition in our community. Kantorei, Magnum Chorum, Minnesota Chorale, National Lutheran Choir, The Singers and Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus each perform a work premiered or commissioned by VocalEssence over its 40 year history. Then, over 500 magnificent voices join together for the world premiere of a work composed for this occasion by Dominick Argento.

Listen to Minnesota Public Radio host John Birge and conductor Philip Brunelle as they discuss Dominick Argento's music, including samples of his music performed by the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers

PROGRAM

Minnesota Chorale
Richard Rodney Bennett, This Day
Benjamin Britten, Let Us Sleep Now from “War Requiem”

Kantorei
Josef Rheinberger, Laudate Dominum
Eskil Hemberg, Thou Who Art Over Us

Magnum Chorum
Charles Forsberg, The Exaltation of Christ
Carol Barnett, Agnus Dei from “The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass”

The Singers
Stephen Paulus, . . .and now the last cloud drains away from “Meditations of Li Po”
Frank Martin, Sanctus from “Mass”

National Lutheran Choir
Eric Whitacre, i thank you God for this most amazing day
Moses Hogan, The Battle of Jericho

INTERMISSION

VocalEssence Chorus & Ensemble Singers
Sven-David Sandström, Agnus Dei

VocalEssence Ensemble Singers
Judith Bingham, The Drowned Lovers

Twin Cities Gay Men’s Chorus
Randall Davidson, I Run a Feedlot Operation, from “A History of Evil”
Robert Seeley, Dialogue from “Metamorphosis”

All Choirs
Dominick Argento, The Choirmaster’s Burial (world premiere)
Battle Hymn of the Republic