An Intimate Christmas with VAE
Christ Church Cathedral
SAT DEC 16, 2023 at 7:30 pm
TREVOR KROEGER conductor
WITH QUEEN CITY CABARET
Escape the winter chill and the holiday rush at An Intimate Christmas with VAE, a cozy reimagining of our candlelit holiday concert. Conductor Trevor Kroeger will lead VAE singers, instrumentalists, and Queen City Cabaret in a program featuring fresh arrangements of favorite holiday tunes and unexpected choral gems. Join us for this warm and welcoming celebration of the most wonderful time of the year!
HARMONY ACROSS TRADITIONS: An Evening with Isaac Cates
Zion Baptist Church
SAT JAN 27, 2024 at 7:30 pm
ISAAC CATES conductor
Internationally renowned conductor and composer Isaac Cates will lead a diverse program of music highlighting contemporary, choral, gospel and folk music traditions, with each piece telling a story aimed at uplifting and connecting listeners to the music and to each other. Isaac has achieved international fame as an artist, composer, arranger, choral director, and educator, and is excited to share his own lived musical experience with our VAE audiences.
Bach B Minor Mass
Christ Church Cathedral
SAT MAR 9, 2024 at 7:30 pm
SUN MAR 10, 2024 at 3:00 pm
CRAIG HELLA JOHNSON conductor
Program: Bach Mass in B Minor
Beloved Grammy-winner Craig Hella Johnson returns to conduct this performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s greatest work, Mass in B minor. Full of mystery and splendor, this oratorio represents the culmination of Bach’s work throughout his life.
SALON CONCERTS
VAE salon concerts are programmed and performed by members of the ensemble just for you. Meet our new singers and get to know more familiar faces through these 45-minute celebrations of singing.
Take Yourself With You
Music Hall Wilks Studio
SAT OCT 28, 2023 at 2:00 pm
LAUREN McALLISTER conductor
Join members of the VAE for an exploration of the many roads we take to learn about ourselves, each other, and our place in the universe. Selections from Fanny Hensel, Samuel Barber, H. Leslie Adams, and Stephen Paulus combine with poems from Mary Oliver, M. C. Richards, and Bengali Brahmin Rabindranath Tagore to round out the program.
Sun, Moon & Stars
Music Hall Wilks Studio
THU APR 4, 2024 at 7:00 pm
CHRISTIN SEARS conductor
Using music selections from Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, David Childs, Laura Mvula and more, Sun, Moon & Stars explores stories of the human experience — life, longing, love and loss — through the wonders of our universe and the mystery and beauty that it holds.
MSJ Theatre Arts is proud to announce the 2023-2024 season. Our season is a tale of identity, coming-of-age, and self-realization. In today’s society there are swaths of our world asking us to ignore our past mistakes and histories that make up so much of our country’s patchwork. These missteps if not taught and examined are destined to be repeated, but let’s challenge ourselves to look at them through a different lens. This season we look backwards…quite a bit. We hope that you will join us as we explore the trials that we go through personally, professionally, physically, emotionally, and mentally.
Shirley Lauro’s authentic look at the women who served in the Vietnam war is a heartfelt exploration of feminism in action with her courageous play, A PIECE OF MY HEART. This is a true tale of six women sent to Vietnam and their struggle to make sense of a war that irrevocable changed them and a nation that shunned them, a work with the music and soul of a tumultuous era in our history. Overall, more than 265,000 women served in the military during Vietnam — and approximately 10,000 military women served in-country during the conflict. Only 8 are memorialized on the Vietnam War Memorial. Six different points of view from six different routes that all happen to parallel and intersect at a variety of points and interludes.
In the spring, we will explore what it means to be female amidst the backdrop of medieval Nottingham with Adam Symkowicz’s MARIAN, OR THE TRUE TALE OF ROBIN HOOD. A gender-bending, patriarchy-smashing, hilarious new take of the classic tale. Robin Hood is (and has always been) Maid Marian in disguise, and leads of motley group of Merry Men (few of whom are actually me) against greedy Prince John. As the poor get poorer and the rich get richer, who will stand for the vulnerable if not Robin? What is the cost of revealing your true self in a time of trouble? Modern concerns and romantic entanglements clash on the battlefield and on the ramparts of Nottingham Castle in this play about selfishness, selflessness, love deferred and the fight. Always the fight. The fight must go on.
Jan. 18-Feb. 11
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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