SONAM Spring Concert for Urban Ministries of Durham

Singers of New and Ancient Music (SONAM) is back! Please join us for our first concert since January 2020!

All proceeds will benefit Urban Ministries of Durham and their mission offering food, shelter, and a future to those in need around the Durham community. The concert will feature music about turning sorrow into joy, including works by Byrd, Palestrina, Schütz, Rachmaninoff, and more.

• Byrd – Sing Joyfully
• Palestrina – Kyrie from Missa Papae Marcelli
• McDowall – Ave Regina caelorum (“Hail the queen of heaven”)
• Victoria – Ave Regina caelorum
• Schütz – Tröstet, tröstet, mein Volk! (“Comfort, comfort, my people!”)
• Rachmaninoff – Нынѣ отпущаеши (Nïne otpushchayeshi, Nunc dimittis) from All-Night Vigil
• Aguiar – Salmo 150 (Psalm 150)
• Price – Resignation
• Hogan – Wade in the Water
• Bussewitz-Quarm – Nigra sum (“I am dark but beautiful”)
• Makaroff – Butterfly
• Ešenwalds – Only in Sleep
• Friedman – Prelude and Fugue
• Whitacre – Sleep
• …and more!