White Light Festival: 150 Psalms
Saint Paul’s Chapel
The Psalms Experience
150 psalms. 150 composers. 12 concerts.
“Out of the depths I cry to you!” For nearly 3,000 years, humans have reached out to the divine through the Psalms, the Hebrew Bible’s book of hymns revealing the gratitude, fear, and longing of the human heart. In this unprecedented choral project, four world-renowned choirs traverse 1,000 years of music over the course of 12 thematic concerts featuring all 150 psalms by 150 different composers from Bach and Handel to today’s leading artists, including new commissions by Nico Muhly and David Lang, among others.
Program:
Josef Rheinberger: Warum toben die Heiden, from Motets, Op. 40, No. 2 (Psalm 2)
Francisco Valls: Dilexisti justitiam (1742) (Psalm 45)
William Knight: Commission (World premiere) (Psalm 21)
Giaches de Wert: Reges tharsis et insulae (Psalm 72)
Felix Draeseke: Der Herr ist König, Op. 56 (Psalm 93)
William Byrd: Dominem secundum multitudinem (Psalm 94)
Michael Praetorius: Venite exultemus Domino (Psalm 95)
James MacMillan: A New Song (Psalm 96)
Johann Heinrich Rolle: Der Herr ist König (Psalm 97)
Damiano Scarabelli: Jubilate Deo (Psalm 98)
William Boyce: The Lord is King, be the people never so impatient (Psalm 99)
Robert White: Exaudiat te Dominus (Psalm 20)
(subject to change)
For the opening concert, New York’s own Choir of Trinity Wall Street (under the direction of Julian Wachner) explores the delicate interplay of love and fear that has long defined our leaders—both mortal and divine—in the historic St. Paul’s Chapel.
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