This program explores the spiritual journey from penitence to joy, often symbolized by the transition from Lent to Easter. The music of John Tavener and Arvo Pärt serves as the musical framework, guiding us from darkness to light. The first half evokes the somber mood of Lent, culminating in an English setting of the Lamentations by Thomas Tallis. In the second half, we are uplifted by Tavener’s Easter anthem As one who has slept and ultimately ascend to the heavens with Tavener’s Song for Athene.

PÄRT Magnificat 
PÄRT Nunc dimittis 
PÄRT The Deer's Cry 
TALLIS Lamentations II  

CARVER O bone Jesu 
TAVENER As one who slept 
JACKSON Ave Maria 
TAVENER Song for Athene 

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