Program

• Ellington | Best of the Sacred Concerts
  with Grant Gershon and James Newton, co-conductors
  featuring Cedric Berry, Darius de Haas, Carmen Lundy, Nolan Shaheed, and Channing Cook Holmes, tap dancer
  
  In the Beginning God
  Will You Be There?
  Ain’t but the One
  Heaven
  The Lord’s Prayer
  The Shepherd Who Watches Over His Nightflock
  David Danced
  Almighty God
  Something ‘Bout Believing
  Father Forgive
  It’s Freedom
  Come Sunday
  Praise God and Dance

To close his 10th season, Grant reprises one of our most celebratory events, extracting the best of the three Sacred Concerts by the incomparable Duke Ellington. Grant shares the podium with James Newton to conduct 110 singers, jazz orchestra, soloists, and tap dancer in this extroverted work. The Sacred Concerts marked a personal artistic highpoint of Ellington’s career. This infectious music dazzled audiences before and promises to dazzle again. Amen!

I cannot imagine a more inspiring way to mark these 10 incredible years of making music together than with the ebullient music of Duke Ellington’s revelatory Sacred Concerts. My dear friend James Newton and I will share the podium as the Master Chorale, jazz orchestra and our incredible vocal soloists rock the house to celebrate! Grant Gershon

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