The Love We Carry

The Love We CarryUniversity of Alberta Concert Choir and Madrigal SingersSaturday, November 28 | 7:30 p.m.All Saints’ Anglican CathedralPresenting their Fall Concert, the University of Alberta Department of Music Concert Choir and Madrigal Singers offer a musical celebration of love in its many forms: love for another person, for home and place, and for our shared humanity. Drawing on music from South Africa, Turkey, Venezuela, Norway, Estonia, Latvia, the United States, and Canada, the program brings together works by Laura Hawley, Sherryl Sewepagaham, Marie-Claire Saindon, Katerina Gimon, Eric Barnum, Ugis Prauliņš, Antonio Estévez, and Ola Gjeilo.At the heart of the concert is Caroline Shaw’s To the Hands, a powerful work for choir and string quintet that reflects on the journeys of displaced people throughout history. Inspired by the words of Emma Lazarus’s sonnet The New Colossus, the music offers a moving reminder of our capacity to welcome those seeking safety, belonging, and a place to call home.The concert concludes with hope and renewed optimism in a beautiful arrangement of Dolly Parton’s Light of a Clear Blue Morning—a musical affirmation of brighter days ahead.https://www.ualberta.ca/en/music/concert-listings/2026-11-28_the-love-we-carry.html
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