This Shining Night is a choral concert bookended by two different settings of James Agee's poem, Sure on this Shining Night. Beginning at sunset and ending at sunrise, the program plunges deep into the human condition using the phases of the night as an extended metaphor for the complex topic of aging and memory loss. The performance includes music by well-known composers such as Samuel Barber, Morten Lauridsen, Eric Whitacre, Alice Parker, and Ysaye Barnwell. It also features selections that speak directly to navigating the journey of dementia: Jessica Rudman's multi-movement work A Forest that is a Desert and Eric Nelson's arrangement of When Memory Fades. The Choir is thrilled to welcome special guest performer Wanda Houston.

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May 17, 2025

Berkshire Concert Choir: This Shining Night · Tanglewood

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