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Schumann: Overture to Manfred
Brahms: Schicksalslied
Holst: The Planets

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Daniel Harding, conductor
Jenny Wong, guest chorus director

Schumann: Overture to Manfred
Brahms: Schicksalslied
Holst: The Planets

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Chorus
Daniel Harding, conductor
Jenny Wong, guest chorus director

Gabriel Jackson (b. 1962) Missa Sanctae Margaretae (2010)
Hans Leo Hassler (1564-1612) Beatus vir qui non abiit
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum

Ruth Watson Henderson (b. 1932) Missa brevis (1976)
Johann Caspar Aiblinger (1779-1867) Meditabor
Thomas Hoekstra (1941-2018) Psalm 8 (1996)
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum

William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) Mass for Five Voices
Josef Gabriel Rheinberger (1839-1901) In Deo speravit à5
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum

Gregor Aichinger (c. 1565-1628) Missa de Beata Virgine
Giulio Bentivoglio (1864-1939) Ave Maria à4
Andrea Rota (c. 1553-1597) In salutari tuo à5
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum

Herbert Howells (1892-1983) Magnificat and Nunc dimittis “Collegium Regale” (1945)
Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) Denn Er hat seinen Engeln befohlen über dir à8 (1844)
David White (b. 1959) O salutaris hostia & Tantum ergo (2017)

Jean Langlais (1907-1991) Missa Salve Regina (1954)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525-1594) Super flumina Babylonis à4
Kinley Lange (b. 1950) Esto les digo (2001)
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum

Charles Gounod (1818-1893)
Quatrième messe solennelle: Messe chorale sur l’intonation de la liturgie catholique
Józef Świder (1930-2014) Laudate Dominum de caelis (2006)
William Byrd (c. 1540-1623) Ave verum corpus
Kathryn Rose (b. 1980) Angelis suis (2018)
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525-1594) Si ambulavero
Joseph Barnby (1838-1896) The eyes of all wait upon Thee
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum

Bernhard Klein (1793-1832) Auf dich, o Herr, vertrauet meine Seele
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) Ave Maria
Gregorian Missa pro defunctis

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525-1594) Exaudi Domine
Thomas Attwood (1765-1838) Teach me, O Lord
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525-1594) Confitemini Domino
Vincenzo Ruffo (c. 1508-1587) Adoramus te Christe
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum

Christopher Tye (c. 1505-c. 1572) O God be merciful
Charles Gounod (1818-1893) O salutaris hostia for mezzo-soprano and tenor
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum

Antonio Lotti (1667-1740) Salve Regina
Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens (1823–1881) Ave Maria
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) Justitiae Domini
Claudio Merulo (1533-1604) Qui manducat meam carnem
The Gregorian Chant Propers from Graduale Romanum

Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Christopher Bell, chorus director
Maeve Höglund, soprano
Hugh Russell, baritone

Joel Thompson: Seven Last Words of the Unarmed
Johannes Brahms: A German Requiem

Carlos Kalmar leads the Grant Park Orchestra with the acclaimed Grant Park Chorus and soloists in Johannes Brahms' choral masterpiece A German Requiem*, written for the bereaved after the death of the composer's mother. The concert opens with another choral tribute, Joel Thompson' chilling cantata Seven Last Words of the Unarmed. Each movement is a setting of the last words uttered by seven unarmed men who were killed by police officers or by vigilantes—Kenneth Chamberlain, Trayvon Martin, Amadou Diallo, Michael Brown, Oscar Grant, John Crawford, and Eric Garner. The Festival welcomes soloists Maeve Höglund and baritone Hugh Russell.

During the Brahms Requiem, members of the Grant Park Orchestra will play instruments provided by Violins of Hope, a private collection of violins, violas, and cellos that once belonged to Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust. The presentation of these instruments is hosted by JCC Chicago.

Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus
Carlos Kalmar, conductor
Christopher Bell, chorus director
Maeve Höglund, soprano
Hugh Russell, baritone

Joel Thompson: Seven Last Words of the Unarmed
Johannes Brahms: A German Requiem

Carlos Kalmar leads the Grant Park Orchestra with the acclaimed Grant Park Chorus and soloists in Johannes Brahms' choral masterpiece A German Requiem*, written for the bereaved after the death of the composer's mother. The concert opens with another choral tribute, Joel Thompson' chilling cantata Seven Last Words of the Unarmed. Each movement is a setting of the last words uttered by seven unarmed men who were killed by police officers or by vigilantes—Kenneth Chamberlain, Trayvon Martin, Amadou Diallo, Michael Brown, Oscar Grant, John Crawford, and Eric Garner. The Festival welcomes soloists Maeve Höglund and baritone Hugh Russell.

During the Brahms Requiem, members of the Grant Park Orchestra will play instruments provided by Violins of Hope, a private collection of violins, violas, and cellos that once belonged to Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust. The presentation of these instruments is hosted by JCC Chicago.