Son to Mother

Inspired by the poems “Son to Mother” (1991) by Maya Angelou and “Mother to Son” (1922) by Langston Hughes, our spring program features the U.S. premiere of a setting of Angelou’s poem by our friend Swedish composer Henrik Dahlgren (remember “God’s Great Dust Storm” from our April 2022 concerts?), “All of Us” from Craig Hella Johnson’s oratorio Considering Matthew Shepard, John Lennon’s “Because,” and the rarely performed masterwork “Dona Nobis P...