We’ve called this program “Forces of Nature,” but “Images of Nature” would have been just as appropriate. Every song we’ve chosen depicts the natural world in text and music. Nature has been used throughout time to describe and derive meaning from the most difficult and most joyful elements of human existence. We associate nature with love, faith, life, death, and purity, as well as the notion of “creation” itself. This program aims to survey these ideas with the most beautiful music we could find.
The natural world in text and music.
Program
- MacMillan 11. O radiant dawn (from The Strathclyde Motets)
- Chesnokov Spaseniye sodelal
- Runestad I Will Lift Mine Eyes
- Napoli Flying at Night
- Arnesen Even When He is Silent
- Schlenker In monte Oliveti
- Paulus 18. Hymn to the Eternal Flame (from To Be Certain of the Dawn)
- Pärt 3. O Sproß aus Isais Wurzel (from Sieben Magnificat-Antiphonen)
- Whitacre 2. With a Lily in Your Hand (from Three Flower Songs)
- Lane There Is No Rose of Such Virtue
- Forrest Good Night, Dear Heart
- Copland Lark
- Palestrina Sicut cervus
- Napoli To Kathleen
- Whitacre Water Night
- Mealor 4. A Spotless Rose (from Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal)
- Barnum The Sweetheart of The Sun
- Spencer At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners
- Hill We Bloomed in Spring
- Barber Heaven-Haven (A Nun Takes the Veil)
- Barnett 3. The Sun (from Three Songs from Hebrew Poetry)
- Chatman 4. Sunset (from Due West)
- McDermid 3. Water (from From Light to Light)
Estimated runtime
1h 35mEnds around
8:35 PM-
Doors open
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Part one
40m
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Intermission
10m
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Part two
45m
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Concert ends
“Lux is such a jewel and deserves wider acclaim.”
Venue information
St. Jerome Catholic Church
5205 43rd Ave
Hyattsville, MD 20781
Hyattsville, MD 20781
A beautiful Catholic church in Hyattsville, just outside of northeast Washington—and the place where Lux began.
