Songs of Remembrance & Promise
Affirming the voices of humanity, crying out to be heard.
with guest Music Director Larry Allen

Friday, March 25, 2011 ~ Mt. Lebanon United Methodist Church ~ 8:00 pm
Saturday, March 26, 2011 ~ Sixth Presbyterian Church, Squirrel Hill  ~ 8:00 pm
Saturday, April 2, 2011 ~St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, Highland Park  ~ 8:00 pm

Join The Pittsburgh Camerata and guest Music Director Larry Allen as they present Donald McCollough’s Holocaust Cantata: Songs from the Camps, and Leonard Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms.

The Holocaust Cantata is comprised of songs set to texts found in the US Holocaust Memorial Museum archives and written by prisoners incarcerated in Nazi concentration camps. It has been called “a work of incomparable power and beauty” that reminds us of the individual human souls behind what can be incomprehensible numbers.

In wonderful juxtaposition to The Holocaust Cantata, Chichester Psalms is a selection of psalms with contrasting images: a bellicose “why do the nations rage so furiously together” against “the Lord is my shepherd.” They send an uplifting message that all “may live together in unity,” and are accompanied by organ, harp and percussion.