Event is Live
Presented by The Cecilia Chorus of New York
The Cecilia Chorus of New York with Orchestra
Friday, December 10, 2021
8 PM
Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage
Mark Shapiro leads The Cecilia Chorus of New York with orchestra in the first-ever Carnegie Hall performance of American composer Margaret Bonds’s 1954 The Ballad of the Brown King, a cantata featuring text from Langston Hughes’s poem Epiphany, written specifically for Bonds. The performance also includes a 50-minute “vest-pocket" Messiah.
Performers
The Cecilia Chorus of New York with Orchestra
Mark Shapiro, Music Director and Conductor
Brandie Sutton, Soprano
Joshua Blue, Tenor
Justin Austin, Baritone
Program
BONDS The Ballad of the Brown King: A Christmas Cantata
HANDEL Messiah (abridged)