Experience music like never before as Musica Sacra opens the 2025-26 season with “SurRound” at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. In this candlelit, immersive performance led by Music Director Kent Tritle, singers move in, among, and around the audience, creating a breathtaking wall of sound that envelops you from every direction. The evening features Thomas Tallis’s Renaissance masterpiece Spem in Alium, written for 40 solo voices and performed in both its original Latin and newly edited English versions, alongside Alessandro Striggio’s equally stunning 40-voice work Ecce Beatam Lucem. The program also includes stunning works spanning the entirety of the choral canon, from Gregorian Chant all the way to contemporary voices including Arvo Pärt and Caroline Shaw.
Program
THOMAS TALLIS Sing and Glorify (for 40 solo voices, ed. K. Tritle)
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Mass for Double Choir: Kyrie
ARVO PÄRT Da pacem Domine
FRANK MARTIN Mass for Double Choir: Agnus Dei
ALESSANDRO STRIGGIO Ecce Beatam Lucem (for 40 solo voices)
NANCY WERTSCH Eternae Deus
VALENTIN SILVESTROV Prayer for Ukraine
CAROLINE SHAW and the swallow
TRADITIONAL “I’m gonna sing ‘til the spirit” (arr. Moses Hogan)
THOMAS TALLIS Spem in Alium (for 40 solo voices)
JEAN RITCHIE “Now is the cool of the day”
Tickets on sale late August