One Song: Exultávit!
Saturday, October 25 @ 7:30PM
The Music Center at Strathmore
The Washington Chorus and National Philharmonic are thrilled to present their next collaboration, One Song: Exultávit, bringing together musical traditions from both East and West to highlight shared humanity and cross-cultural identity. This program features J.S. Bach’s beloved setting of the Magnificat and Reena Esmail’s extraordinary new work This Love Between Us: Prayers for Unity, which melds Western and Indian classical music traditions. Both works explore the power of prayer, humility, and kindness — imagining a future where more unites us than divides us, and the least among us matter the most.
The lamps may be different,
but the Light is the same.
All religions, all this singing, one song.
Concentrate on the Light.
– Rumi
My soul doth magnify the Lord…
He hath put down the mighty
from their seat: and hath exalted
the humble and meek.
– Mary, The Gospel of Luke
Featuring:
Eugene Rogers, conductor
Juliet Schlefer, soprano
Heather Petrie, contralto
Jacob Perry, tenor
Edmund Milly, bass-baritone
Shabnam Abedi, soprano
Rajib Karmakar, sitar
Amit Kavthekar, tabla
Andrew Smith, bass-baritone
David Miranda, tenor