Commissioned by The Boston Cecilia, Minnesota composer Paul Rudoi has composed Our Transcendental Passion, a concert-length work for chorus, soli, piano trio, percussion and Appalachian dulcimer. The libretto is based on the words of Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as well as those of lesser known and marginalized voices, Margaret Fuller and Elizabeth Palmer Peabody.

Just as Bach’s Passions allowed German audiences to remember their Lutheran heritage, this work will give American audiences the chance to consider Sacred Harp as a bedrock of musical material in connection with a movement that was at once spiritual and secular, historical and philosophical, personal and universal.

Michael Barrett, conductor

Carley DeFranco, soprano

Sophie Michaux, mezzo soprano

Daniel Lugo, tenor

Dana Whiteside, baritone

Saturday April 2 Performance:

All Saints Parish
1773 Beacon Street
Brookline, MA 02445

For more information and tickets, visit Boston Cecilia’s website here