MIT Concert Choir: Longing for Unity

Join us for the first MIT Concert Chorus fall concert!

Longing for Unity

Mendelssohn’s Psalm 42 is a musical manifestation of humanity’s impulse to search for love and belonging. Contemporary composer Reena Esmail’s This Love Between Us: Prayers for Unity yearns for common ground by joining sitar and tabla with a modern western orchestra, juxtaposing words from seven major religious traditions of India to explore how they each approach the topics of unity, harmony, and of being kind to one another.

Repertoire:

• Lili Boulanger: Psaume 24 
• Mendelssohn: Psalm 42, Wie der Hirsch schreit
• Reena Esmail: This Love Between Us

Soloists:

• Rajib Karmakar, sitar
• Giri Subramaniam, tabla
• Carley Defranco,  soprano
• Carrie Cheron, alto
• Matthew Anderson & Haochen Wang, tenor
• David McFerrin, bass

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