​2020-2021

THE CREATION
​Franz Joseph Haydn

OCTOBER 24, 2020
Franz Joseph Haydn's epic telling of the Creation story.
While visiting London in the 1790s, Haydn heard two of Handel's oratorios, Messiah and Israel in Egypt.  Inspired and possessing a libretto by Baron van Swieten, based on Milton's Paradise Lost, The Creation (Die Schöpfung) ​ was premiered in Vienna in 1798.  
​The ACS will perform this masterwork in English.

JOY TO THE WORLD

DECEMBER 12, 2020
Technically an Advent cantata, Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (BWV 140) is a setting of scripture from Matthew 25:1-13 set by Bach in Leipzig in November 1731.  Also included in the concert are a mini-cantata by Randol Bass, The Feast of Carols; a "Handelian" setting of Joy to the World by John Rutter; an anthem arrangement by Dan Forrest of See, Amid the Winter's Snow; a performance by our special guest artists, the Jessye Norman School Chorus;
​and much more.

STABAT MATER
Karl Jenkins

A MONTH OF CELEBRATION

March 20, 2021
We are bringing back this majestic and innovative retelling of the story of Mary, the Mother, at the foot of the cross by living British composer Karl Jenkins.

MAY (TBA), 2021
So many of annual celebrations are observed in the month of May: Mothers' Day, Military Appreciation Month, Memorial Day, school graduations, recitals, Cinco de Mayo, National Limerick Day, National Apple Pie Day . . . we could go on and on.  So the ACS is going to celebrate, too.  At least several of these.

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