EXPERIENCE
A POWERFUL
PERFORMANCE THAT
WILL UPLIFT AND
TRANSFORM YOU.
JOHN ADAMS
ON THE TRANSMIGRATION OF SOULS
with the Young People’s Chorus of New York City
PHOTO: © GABY WESSELS, ivy-juniper.deviantart.com
John Adams’ On The Transmigration of Souls was commissioned
to commemorate the first anniversary of 9/11. Adams calls his work
a “memory space,” akin to “a great cathedral where you sense
something otherworldly, where you can be alone with your thoughts
and emotions.” It evokes the spectrum of human emotion and
compels each of us to explore it.
PAUL HINDEMITH
WHEN LILACS LAST IN THE DOORYARD BLOOM’D
Abigail Fischer, Mezzo-Soprano
Lee Poulis, Baritone
Paul Hindemith chose When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,
Walt Whitman’s elegiac poem, as the setting for a profoundly
American work that makes us think about how we deal with loss.
Whitman responded to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, while
Hindemith memorializes the untimely death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Both masterpieces, inspired by profound historic events, ultimately
transcend those events and celebrate the strength and resilience of
the American spirit.
Presented by
NEW YORK CHORAL SOCIETY
with THE MANNES ORCHESTRA
DAVID HAYES, Music Director
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
CARNEGIE HALL APRIL 8, 2015 8:00 pm
Tickets: $30-$80
Box office: 57th St. and 7th Avenue
CarnegieCharge 212-247-7800
www.nychoral.org
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The New York Choral Society
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