Celebrate our tenth anniversary season with Genesis, a program that brings together some of our favorite pieces from the past decade. This special event features Lux favorites by composers like Eric Whitacre, Amy Beach, Dan Forrest, and Antonio Lotti, along with exciting new music from Eric Tuan and Dale Trumbore, giving you a taste of what's to come in future concerts. Join us for an evening of music that captures Lux's unique spirit, as we look back on our journey and set the stage for the years ahead.
Concert
Genesis
- Saturday, September 21, 2024
- 7:00 PM
- Church of the Ascension and St. Agnes
- Washington, DC
Celebrating ten years of Lux with music by Whitacre, Beach, and others
Program
- Traditional Paschal troparion
- Whitacre Sainte-Chapelle
- Copland Lark
- Mealor O Lord, Make Thy Servant Elizabeth
- Burton A Prayer
- Debussy 1. Dieu! qu’il la fait bon regarder (from Trois chansons de Charles d’Orléans)
- Tuan Unending Love
- Lotti Crucifixus
- Robertson ...a link in a chain...
- Beach 2. Through the house give glimmering light (from Three Shakespeare Choruses, Op. 39)
- Cox Prayers of Kierkegaard
- Barnum The Sweetheart of The Sun
- Matthews Gravedigger (arr. Takach)
- Trumbore Spiritus Mundi
- Spencer At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners
- Forrest Entreat Me Not to Leave You
Estimated runtime
1h 25mEnds around
8:25 PM-
Doors open
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Part one
30m
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Intermission
15m
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Part two
40m
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Concert ends
Season
2024-2025: Tenth Anniversary Season
Part of the series
Genesis
“The sheer joy they put into their work does much to make choral music exciting and accessible to the modern listener.”
Venue information
Church of the Ascension and St. Agnes
1215 Massachusetts Ave NW
Washington, DC 20005
Washington, DC 20005
