Emergent Universe Oratorio
April 4, 2023
The Choir joined forces with BlueWater Chamber Orchestra for the world premiere of Sam Guarnaccia’s Emergent Universe Oratorio. The modern-day oratorio tells the Great Story of the Universe from the Big Bang to the emergence of Earth’s global consciousness, in a series of alternating recitatives scored for orator and orchestral accompaniment with major lyrical choral movements. It is chiefly inspired by the axial work of cultural historian, author, and ‘geologian’ Thomas Berry, successor to Teilhard de Chardin, cosmologist Brian Swimme, and Confucian scholar and author Mary Evelyn Tucker’s Journey of the Universe. It also draws from the poetic works of Rainer Maria Rilke, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Blake, Wendell Berry, and John Elder.
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