Spring 2022

2022 is a tense year. We still battle the scourge of Covid. We watch anxiously as Ukraine valiantly confronts inhuman brutality inflicted upon its land and people. We are apprehensive over our country’s greatest social schism since the Civil War. We wonder when, or if, a series of unusually frequent natural disasters is ever going to abate. This is a lot to worry about. Many of us, perhaps most, are striving—in ways great and small—to turn these nemeses around. We can find inspiration for that in music!

Director Walter Chapin and Assistant Director Katheryn Currie lead Oriana’s 21 a cappella voices in Resurgence: songs of rebirth and renewal. This choral music is from four different continents, and is sung in eight different languages (English, Italian, German, Latin, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Mandarin, and isiXhosa) -- yet it all has essentially the same message: the human spirit, when inspired, has an infinite capacity for overcoming adversity.