Mass Settings and other Sacred Major Works

Based on the dramatic events in Springfield, Missouri, Easter, 1906 tells the true story of the lynching of three Black men in the town square on Easter Sunday, 1906. This horrific story is just

Heralded by The Los Angeles Times as an “elegant, engaging, an effective setting, pungently scored, rhythmically varied, and highly flattering to a good chorus . . . accessible in the best sense."

Written by the Hungarian-Austrian avant-garde composer György Ligeti, this simultaneously haunting, mysterious, unsettling, and serenely beautiful piece unfolds gradually in shimmering layers of sound