Harmony of Connections

Barber’s Reincarnations and American Composers

With this concert, Te Deum poses the question: What if we inspired humans to listen and feel the active connections required to create and sustain life as well as our world? There are bonds (cords, if you will) between our bodies, each other, and the ideas that inspire and sustain us. Choral music offers a visceral manifestation of those bonds.

Through the use of choral music, poetry, space, and sensory-​heightened experiences, Harmony of Connections is designed to explore the creation, maintenance, and loss of connection – featuring great American composers, Samuel Barber, Meredith Monk, and David Lang, as well as local Kansas City composers Geoffry Wilcken and a world premiered by Anthony J. Maglione. Join us for music that draws the audience’s attention to the energy it requires of singers to vibrate those c(h)ords together in ways you can meaningfully feel.