Fine Arts

Southwestern University Chorale Concert: Hope

Location

Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center

Date & Time

7:30pm CDT November 6, 2021

Contact

For more information please reach out to the Box Office at 512-863-1378.

7:30pm CDT November 6, 2021

Alma Thomas Fine Arts Center

For more information please reach out to the Box Office at 512-863-1378.

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Photo from behind director Beth Everett as she conducts the choir, who are dressed in black concert attire and holding their music fold...
Photo from behind director Beth Everett as she conducts the choir, who are dressed in black concert attire and holding their music folders as they sing.
The Sarofim School of Fine Arts is proud to present a fall choral concert with the Southwestern University Chorale.

Join us in the Alma Thomas Theater on Saturday, November 6 at 7:30 p.m for Hope.  **In-person seating is SOLD OUT, but you can still watch the concert on our live-stream, which is linked below.**

Works featured include Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms and the Texas premiere of Damien Geter’s Cantata For a More Hopeful Tomorrow. Both works represent hope in the face of tremendous loss.

Cantata For a More Hopeful Tomorrow was commissioned during the pandemic, and has only been performed once before. The Cantata will feature Katherine Altobello ’99, mezzo soprano, and Hai Zheng-Olefsky, cello, both faculty of Southwestern University’s Music Department.

Cantata For a More Hopeful Tomorrow

I. Fear (text by Salomo Franck and Megan Levad)

II. The Prayer (Traditional text, setting of “I Want Jesus to Walk With Me”)

III. Breathe (text by Aminata Sei)

IV. The Resolve (Traditional text, setting of “There Is a Balm in Gilead”)

V. Hope (text by Walt Whitman)

“Nothing is ever really lost / or can be lost.”

 — Walt Whitman

Program

Remote audiences can watch our live stream at the link below.

Watch Live Stream