American voices and luminous reflections open the season in radiant style. Aaron Copland’s beloved Appalachian Spring evokes wide-open landscapes and quiet hope, while Max Richter’s On the Nature of Daylight offers aching, meditative beauty. The evening culminates in Elaine Hagenberg’s soaring Illuminare, a breathtaking choral journey from darkness into light featuring the NHMF/Pemi Festival Chorus.

Artists

Charles Dimmick, concertmaster

Will Gunn, guest choral conductor

Program

*Diamond, David – Rounds for String Orchestra

*Copland, Aaron – Appalachian Spring Suite

Intermission

Richter, Max – On the Nature of Daylight

*Hagenberg, Elaine – Illuminare (with the NHMF/Pemi Festival Chorus)

*American composer

This concert is made possible through a partnership with the Pemigewasset Choral Society and support from Heart & Hands Thrift Shop