North Carolina Master Chorale celebrates America's 250th birthday with patriotic works by American composers, including Howard Hanson, Aaron Copland and Michael Daugherty.
North Carolina Master Chorale takes the stage at Meymandi Concert Hall on Sunday, November 8, for a program built around America's 250th birthday. The whole afternoon is dedicated to patriotic works by American composers, so if you're in the mood for choral music that leans into the national anniversary, this is the one.
The program pulls from three different composers, each bringing a different kind of patriotic energy to the stage. There's The Song of Democracy by Howard Hanson, which sets a poem by Walt Whitman—one of the most American voices there is—and The Promise of Living by Aaron Copland, whose sound is practically shorthand for the American landscape. The second half comes from Michael Daugherty, with the final movement of Mount Rushmore, a piece dedicated to Abraham Lincoln. Between the Whitman poetry, the Copland, and the Daugherty, the set moves from the literary to the orchestral to the historical, all held together by the chorale.
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It's a Sunday matinee, so it fits easily into a weekend without taking over your whole day. The concert is at 3 PM at Meymandi Concert Hall, located at 2 E. South St. in downtown Raleigh.
