Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Wisconsin

The 65 voices of the Choral Arts Society, with a guest string quartet, will present “Darkness to Light,” a program of classical choral music on Saturday, October 13, 2018 at 7:00 PM in Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 2201 Northwestern Ave., Racine. This concert will feature music that illumines the human experience, from pain and sorrow to joy and happiness. Two works by celebrated composer Ola Gjeilo, his settings of “Dark Night of the Soul” by St. John of the Cross and “Across the Vast Eternal Sky,” by Charles Anthony Silvestri about the rise of the mythical phoenix, will be featured works. A traditional setting of John McCrae’s moving poem “In Flanders Fields” will pay tribute to the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI. Beautiful and inspirational choral music by J.S. Bach, Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, and Healey Willan will round out this diverse programme.

Programme is as follows:

• Nunc Dimittis in B Flat – Stanford
• Responsories for the Offices of Tenebrae – Healey Willan
• Kom süsser Tod – J.S. Bach
• Dark Night of the Soul – Poem by St. John of the Cross, Music by Ola Gjeilo
• In Flanders Fields – Words by Dr. John McCrae, Music by John Jacobson and Roger Emerson
• La Nuit – Jean Philippe Rameau
• Lux Aurumque – Text by Charles Anthony Silvestri, Music by Eric Whitacre
• Across the Vast Eternal Sky – Text by Charles Anthony Silvestri, Music by Ola Gjeilo