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The Opening Out: Songs of Creation (Saturday, May 11, 2024)


Join our Springfield Choral Society small ensembles, as we present this final program of the Springfield Liturgical Arts Festival! Inspired by the festival's theme of creation, we will interweave music and text that explore the relationship between divine and human creation. Structured by the seven days of the Genesis narrative, this is a program you won't want to miss. Let there be singing!


Saturday, May 11, 7:30pm, Central Baptist Church, Springfield

Free Admission


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I. LIGHT

Joseph Haydn: Creation, "In the beginning"

James MacMillian: O Radiant Dawn

II. SKY

Mary Lynn Lightfoot: Rainsong

Elaine Hagenberg: Measure Me, Sky

III. EARTH

Phillip Stopford: For the Beauty of the Earth

Malcolm Dalglish: The Opening Out

IV. SUN & MOON

George Harrison: Here Comes the Sun

Florence Price: The Moon Bridge

V. FISH & FOWL

Franz Schubert: Die Forelle

Paul Jarman: Icarus

VI. BEAST & HUMAN

Adriano Banchieri: Contrappuntò Bestiale

Joseph Haydn: Creation, “And God Created Man”

Vienna Teng: The Hymn of Axciom

VII. REST

Florence Price: Nod

Felix Mendelssohn: Verleih uns Frieden

VIII. PRAISE

Florence Price: Poem of Praise

Joseph Haydn: Creation, “The Heavens Are Telling”


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