Gate City Voices

Saturday, May 21, 8pm | Monday, May 23, 7:30pm
First Presbyterian Church, 617 N Elm St, Greensboro

Bel Canto Company welcomes Gate City Voices, a new auditioned, volunteer choir founded to perform with Bel Canto Company, presenting expansive choral works composed for large choirs.

Messe solennelle – Louis Vierne
Credo – Margaret Bonds
Passover Psalm – Erich Wolfgang Korngold

John Alexander, organ
Timothy Olsen, organ
Theresa Bickham, soloist
Detra Davis, soloist
Reginald Powell, soloist

The inaugural performance will feature Louis Vierne’s Messe solennelle (Solemn Mass) in C-sharp minor, a masterpiece for choir and TWO organs that is by turns stirring, haunting, and ecstatic; Margaret Bonds’ Credo, a powerful cry for equality based on W.E.B Du Bois’ prose poem of the same name, and Eric Wolfgang Korngold’s, Passover Psalm, a hymn to Hebrew prayers from the Haggadah set to music that is jubilant and uplifting.

Read more about Gate City Voices at ChoralArtsCollective.org

Presenting Sponsors

This project was supported by the North Carolina Arts Council, a division of the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. www.NCArts.org

Season Sponsors

Additional support for our 39th Season provided by

The Choral Arts Collective is a non-profit resident organization of the Greensboro Cultural Center, made possible by a significant in-kind contribution from Creative Greensboro, the City of Greensboro’s office for arts & culture.

Performance Sponsors

Major support for Gate City Voices provided by