Photo Credit: VOCES8 & KAUFMAN MUSIC CENTER
Lead Me Home
The ever-popular, Grammy-nominated British vocal VOCES8 returns to Merkin Hall with journeys through the rich and varied landscape of American choral music, tracing a path through faith, folk tradition, poetry and popular song. The program moves from the timeless devotion of Virgil Thomson’s My Shepherd Will Supply My Need and the spirituals to the visionary sound-worlds of Caroline Shaw, Morten Lauridsen and Eric Whitacre. Alongside these sacred and contemplative works sit songs of beauty, longing and place: Samuel Barber’s shimmering To Be Sung on the Water, the timeless folk melody Shenandoah, and the wistful nostalgia of Vincent. The programme closes in sparkling style with affectionate musical portraits of two iconic American cities in April in Paris and I Get a Kick Out of New York.
Leadership support for Great Vocalists is made possible by The Barbara Bell Cumming Charitable Trust.
