PostClassical Ensemble begins the new year with Amazing Grace, a program centered around Jeffrey Mumford’s cello of radiances blossoming in expanding air in its Washington, D.C., premiere. The concert, which music director Angel Gil-Ordóñez will conduct on 10 January 2024 at 7.30 pm at the Kennedy Center Terrace Theater, presents Annie Jacobs-Perkins as the soloist and will also include music by John Newton, George Walker, Margaret Bonds, Gustav Mahler, Gabriel Fauré, and Luciano Berio. Mumford, who also serves as guest curator, will receive PCE’s American Roots Artist Award for his outstanding contributions to American music.
Amazing Grace: In Paradisum
Wednesday, January 10 2024, 7:30pm
Terrace Theater | The Kennedy Center | 2700 F St NW, Washington, DC
Presented without intermission
Jeffrey Mumford, guest curator
Annie Jacobs-Perkins, cello
Katerina Burton, soprano
CAAPA Chorale
Andre Leonard, piano
PostClassical Ensemble conducted by Angel Gil-Ordóñez
PROGRAM:
John Newton: Amazing Grace
George Walker: O Praise the Lord
George Walker: Stars
George Walker: Lyric for Strings
Jeffery Mumford: of radiances blossoming in expanding air (DC premiere)
Gustav Mahler: 4th Symphony. 4th Movement, The Heavenly Life
Gabriel Fauré: In Paradisum from Requiem
Luciano Berio: O King
Margaret Bonds: Aria from Credo
Jeffrey Mumford Let Us Breathe
John Newton: Amazing Grace
arr. Evelyn Simpson Curenton
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MEMETERIA by Thomas May 