Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble

Welcoming Hands

Andrew Megill, conductor

The choir’s first concert of the year explores compositions of the past and present blending prayer, meditation, pain, and hope. BCE vividly performs music from the 17th century to the present day in a program spanning traditional African American spirituals, motets, sacred music in the concertato style, and more.

Thomas Tallis, excerpts from Lamentations of Jeremiah

Caleb Burhans, Super flumina Babylonis

Francesco Cavalli, Salve Regina

John Pickard, “Credo” from Mass in Troubled Times

Nicholas Cline, she took his hands

Johann Hermann Schein, Zion spricht

Caroline Shaw, To the Hands

Traditional African American spiritual (arr. Moses Hogan), “Deep River”