2023–24 Season

Te Deum concludes its 16th season with an exploration of the sacred music for the Feast of Corpus Christi, featuring guest conductor and professor of chant, Antanina Kalechyts. The performance featured music that spanned nearly 800 years and included the second world premiere of the season by composer-​in-​residence, Anthony Maglione. 

Salve Mundi Salutare, a poem that honors the parts of Christ’s body on the Cross, is explored, longed for, and celebrated in unique ways in the three pieces on this Antiqua series program, in collaboration with Kansas City ensemble Bach Aria Soloist. This concert presented masterworks from Bach, Britten, and Buxtehude. 

Lessons and Carols for Today offered a modern twist on the Anglican tradition of interspersing biblical passages with choral and congregational singing. Collaborating with Kansas City poet Natasha Ria El-​Scari, Natasha will wrote and performed new poetry to replace the traditional biblical lessons, delivering modern reflections on the Nativity story through an African American Feminist lens. 

e Deum launched its 16th season with Truer Words, an exploration of the works of great poets, thinkers, and faith leaders whose words offer comfort, grace, inspiration, understanding, and joy. The great poets included John Donne, King David, Gandhi, Christopher Smart, Michael Dennis Brown, and Mother Teresa; and music by Britten, Burleigh, Parry, Paulus, Bruckner, Julia Wolfe, and a world premiere by Te Deum’s new Composer-​in-​Residence, Anthony J. Maglione.