May 2022

Resurgence: Songs of rebirth and renewal

Schedule

Read director Walter Chapin's program notes from this concert!

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.

COVID restrictions

• All audience members must show proof of EITHER a valid full COVID-19 vaccination with the second or final dose dated 2 or more weeks prior to the concert, OR a valid negative PCR/molecular COVID-19 test dated 3 or fewer days prior to the concert.
• All audience members must be masked (as will be all performers and concert staff).
• Audience members will be spaced within the church sanctuary in accordance with standard social distancing practice.

Program