Designed to match the range and timbre of the human voice, the trombone has spent centuries filling out and accompanying sacred choirs. This program allows the trombone to move to the foreground and show the beauty and power that has been hidden in the back row of the orchestra. This program of powerful arrangements of vocal works covers multiple eras, from 11th-century four-part organum, through the classicism of Mozart and Haydn, to the 20th-century male choir works of Debussy and Hindemith.

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Works to be performed on the “Transcendent Sonorities” program include:

Mozart, Double Fugue (from The Requiem Mass in D minor)
Brahms, Marienlieder
Debussy, Trois Chansons
Haydn, Achieved Is Thy Glorious Work (from The Creation)
Mendelssohn, Equale No. 3
Hindemith, Three Songs for Male Choir
Bruckner, Motets
Guillaume de Machaut, Selections from the Notre Dame Mass
Pérotin, Viderunt Omnes