Our Next Concert

 

Te Deum and A Child of Our Time

February 3 at 7pm
Carnegie Hall

Soloists: Nicole Cabell, Marietta Simpson, Russell Thomas, and John Relyea, with the American Symphony Orchestra. 

Anton Bruckner’s Te Deum in C Major was described by fellow composer Gustav Mahler as a work “for the tongues of angels, heaven-blest, chastened hearts, and souls purified in the fire!” Sir Michael Tippett’s A Child of Our Time (1941) is a unique oratorio, incorporating traditional African-American spirituals in a form similar to Bach’s use of the chorale in his Passions and with a decidedly twentieth-century musical language. The text of this stirring work reflects Tippett's pacifism and belief that people contain both "shadow and light."  
Click here to hear musical excerpts from the Tippett.