Mark Shapiro leads The Cecilia Chorus of New York with orchestra in the first-ever Carnegie Hall performance of American composer Margaret Bonds’s 1954 The Ballad of the Brown King, a cantata featuring text from Langston Hughes’s poem Epiphany, written specifically for Bonds. The performance also includes a 50-minute “vest-pocket" Messiah.

Performers

The Cecilia Chorus of New York with Orchestra
Mark Shapiro, Music Director and Conductor
Brandie Sutton, Soprano
Joshua Blue, Tenor
Justin Austin, Baritone

Program

BONDS The Ballad of the Brown King: A Christmas Cantata

HANDEL Messiah