MOTETS

Conductor: David Mackay

Organ: Callum Tolhurst-Close

Cello: Liam Meany

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PROGRAM

Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (Bach) 

Assumpta est Maria (Palestrina)

Versa est in Luctum (Lobo) 

Give me your stars to hold (Chilcott)

Ecce quomodo moritur justus (Gallus)

Serenity (Gjeilo) 

Komm, Jesu, komm (Bach)

To Morning (Jackson)

And so it goes (Billy Joel)

TICKETS

$50 Full price

$45 Seniors Card holders / Concession

Sacred and secular meditations on life, death, and transcendence

Coro’s latest program is a journey through light and darkness. It opens in radiant praise with Bach’s Singet dem Herrn — music overflowing with joy — before turning to the stillness of the Renaissance. Motets by Palestrina, Lobo, and Gallus speak of mortality, loss, and faith with luminous calm rather than despair. Bach’s Komm, Jesu, komm bridges this world and the next, where a weary soul finds its rest.

Modern works by Bob Chilcott, Ola Gjeilo, and Gabriel Jackson carry that same spirit into our own time, offering music that is tender, meditative, and deeply human. The program closes with Chilcott’s arrangement of Billy Joel’s And So It Goes — a simple, heartfelt reminder that life and love are precious because they pass.

Across five centuries, sacred and secular, these works share a single thread: they move from joy through sorrow to peace and hope — always seeking the light beyond the shadow.