PROGRAMMING FOR TRANSFORMATION: Why Choirs Need Large-Scale Works
I’ve been a choral singer for almost thirty years, and in that time I’ve sung a large-scale work only eight times (five were Messiah). The others (Bach’s St. John Passion, Rachmaninoff’s All-Night Vigil, and Craig Hella Johnson’s Considering Matthew Shepard) stand out not only because or their rarity, but because they required something fundamentally different…




