Composer Mason Bynes asks, “How does one create music for joy and sorrow, for challenge and triumph, for jubilance and anguish? Can sorrow, strife, and yearning inform joy, peace, and attainment?” Bynes explores these questions in her latest work, which is informed by Freedom on the Move, the Cornell University database devoted to the experiences of enslaved people seeking freedom in North America.

The renowned Pine Forge Academy Honors Choir, directed by Jarrett Roseborough, gives its world premiere on our second Singing Freedom program.

PROGRAM
Our Song of Freedom
Roseborough: Welcome Song
Carter: Lift Every Voice and Sing
Berger: The Eyes of All
Beethoven: Hallelujah from Mt. of Olives
Ferdinand: Safe in His Arms
Ferrario: Jubilate Deo
Roseborough: Medley of Hope
Fettke: The Majesty and Glory of Your Name
Bynes: Three Dialogues World Premiere/PCMS Commission
Roseborough: Msifuni Mungu
Roseborough: Elijah Rock
Dillard: Consider it Done
There is a Fountain [Gospel, author unknown]
Rodgers: Poor Wayfaring Stranger
Lawrence: Deliver Me
Smallwood: Healing
Wise: Balm in Gilead
Carter: Someday