Tickets on sale for Oakland Symphony premiere

Lynne Morrow, OSC director

At long last! You can now buy advance tickets for the Oakland Symphony Chorus' April 13 world premiere of my new five-movement work for chorus and chamber orchestra,
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Mass for Freedom

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Mass for Freedom re-explores the sacred roots of five African-American spirituals that became anthems of protest during the Civil Rights movement. Scored for large mixed chorus and a 24-piece chamber orchestra, the work combines the spirituals with text from the Latin Mass Ordinary (in English translation) and additional words by a certain Michael T. Roberts, M.M., A.B., D.A. 

Advance tickets are $20. All seating is general admission. 

Oakland Symphony Chorus Spring Concert
Lynne Morrow, director
Saturday, April 13, 2019, 8:00pm
First Congregational Church
2501 Harrison St. 
Oakland, CA 

The Mass will comprise the entire second half of the program. The first half will be a great assortment of spirituals, including many of the ones I adopted as source material for the Mass, such as "Kumbaya/Come By Here," "Ain't Got Time to Die," and "We Shall Overcome." 

The orchestration is finished, the parts are going out to players, and I attended my first chorus rehearsal just the other night. After a year-and-a-half of work, it's getting real! The Symphony is making a documentary video of the process that I hope to share with you soon. 

Get your tickets! Come on out! It's gonna be a party!