An Invitation to the Voyage

The centerpiece of this concert is the world premiere of a newly commissioned work by composer Philip Lasser. His L’Abécédaire de Huon, Roi de Cambrai sets a series of 13th century French poems that follow the letters of the alphabet. Continuing with works in French, the chorus will perform a piece by Haitian American composer Sydney Guillaume that set a poem by his father, Gabriel T. Guillaume: Le Dernier Voyage, a meditation on the joys and pa...