Spring For Music: A Rare American Oratorio At Carnegie Hall
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Friday, May 9, 2014
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and May Festival Chorus came to Carnegie Hall on May 9, 2014, as one of the last orchestras to participate in the Spring for Music festival.
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Hear an intriguing program pairing John Adams' gorgeous Harmonium with an oratorio by black Canadian-American composer R. Nathaniel Dett — a work whose 1937 premiere was weirdly cut short.
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Program
- ADAMS Harmonium
- DETT The Ordering of Moses
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
May Festival Chorus
James Conlon, music director
Latonia Moore, soprano
Ronnita Nicole Miller, mezzo-soprano
Rodrick Dixon, tenor
Donnie Ray Albert, baritone
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